Giancarlo Peris, an Italian track athlete of Greek descent, was the final bearer of the Olympic torch for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. Peris was born in Civitavecchia, a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea 70 kilometers northwest of Rome. The Italian National Olympic Committee decided that last torchbearer of the Olympic Games, would have been the winner of a junior Cross country running race. He won and he was chosen to be the last torchbearer.

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  • Giancarlo Peris, an Italian track athlete of Greek descent, was the final bearer of the Olympic torch for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. Peris was born in Civitavecchia, a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea 70 kilometers northwest of Rome. The Italian National Olympic Committee decided that last torchbearer of the Olympic Games, would have been the winner of a junior Cross country running race. He won and he was chosen to be the last torchbearer. However, he was a very promising young half-track athlete, among other things having participated, few months before the opening of the Olympic games, in a competition of the national junior/youth team against Poland. Currently as of 2004 he teaches history and Italian at the technical high-school "G. Baccelli" of Civitavecchia. He has two sons, aged 35 and 28 years. Besides teaching he is the trainer of a small light athletics club. He also enjoys writing and teaching the writing of verse.
  • Peris fu scelto come ultimo tedoforo dei Giochi di Roma, nonostante non fosse un atleta già affermato. Era stato infatti deciso che, come ultimo tedoforo dei Giochi del 1960, sarebbe stato scelto il vincitore dei campionati studenteschi di corsa campestre della provincia di Roma di quello stesso anno, che fu appunto Peris. La ragione di questa scelta era naturalmente simbolica. Peris corse gli ultimi 350 metri del percorso della fiaccola olimpica. Oggi fa l'insegnante e l'allenatore e scrive racconti, pesie e sonetti sia in lingua che in dialetto romanesco.
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  • Giancarlo Peris, an Italian track athlete of Greek descent, was the final bearer of the Olympic torch for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. Peris was born in Civitavecchia, a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea 70 kilometers northwest of Rome. The Italian National Olympic Committee decided that last torchbearer of the Olympic Games, would have been the winner of a junior Cross country running race. He won and he was chosen to be the last torchbearer.
  • Peris fu scelto come ultimo tedoforo dei Giochi di Roma, nonostante non fosse un atleta già affermato. Era stato infatti deciso che, come ultimo tedoforo dei Giochi del 1960, sarebbe stato scelto il vincitore dei campionati studenteschi di corsa campestre della provincia di Roma di quello stesso anno, che fu appunto Peris. La ragione di questa scelta era naturalmente simbolica. Peris corse gli ultimi 350 metri del percorso della fiaccola olimpica.
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