![]() Agostino Straulino and Nicolò Rode (right) at the 1952 Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Lussin Piccolo, Austria-Hungary | 1 January 1912||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 4 May 1998 Verona, Italy | (aged 86)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Class | Star | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nicolò "Nico" Rode (1 January 1912 – 4 May 1998) was an Italian sailor. He competed at the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Olympics in the Star class with skipper Agostino Straulino on Merope. They won a gold medal in 1952 and a silver in 1956 and finished fifth in 1948. [1]
Like Straulino, Rode was born in Mali Lošinj on the island of Lošinj, Croatia (at that time in the Austrian part of Austria-Hungary). [1]