Editing Giancarlo Peris

{{Short description|Italian track athlete}}
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| birth_place = [[Civitavecchia]], [[Kingdom of Italy]]
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'''Giancarlo Peris''' (born 4 November 1941), an [[Italy|Italian]] track athlete of Greek descent, was the final bearer of the [[Olympic torch]] for the [[1960 Summer Olympics]] in Rome, Italy.<ref name=beijing>{{cite web|url=http://en.beijing2008.cn/story/story4/0702/ |title=Giancarlo Peris：From Rome 1960 to Beijing 2008 |work=beijing2008.cn |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527210110/http://en.beijing2008.cn/story/story4/0702/ |archivedate=27 May 2013 }}</ref>

==Biography==
Peris was born in [[Civitavecchia]], a port city on the [[Tyrrhenian Sea]] 70 kilometers northwest of Rome. The [[Italian National Olympic Committee]] decided that the last torchbearer of the Olympic Games would be the winner of a junior [[Cross country running]] race. Peris won and was chosen to be the last torchbearer.<ref name=beijing/> Peris was also a promising track athlete and few months before the opening of the Olympic games he competed for his country's national junior/youth team against Poland.

He later became a teacher of history and [[Italian language|Italian]] at the technical high-school "G. Baccelli" of Civitavecchia. He also coached at a small athletics club.{{citation needed|date=August 2017}}

==See also==
* [[1960 Summer Olympics]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|Giancarlo Peris}}
* {{in lang|it}} {{YouTube|njVbl1LDVzU|Peris' interview}}

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[[Category:Sportspeople from Civitavecchia]]
[[Category:Athletes from the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital]]
[[Category:Olympic cauldron lighters]]
[[Category:Italian male middle-distance runners]]
[[Category:Italian people of Greek descent]]
[[Category:20th-century Italian sportsmen]]