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Starts his swimming career at the age of 6 and participates at his first age group Nationals at the age of 11. |
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* In May 1976 at the age of 15 wins the World Championship in finswimming marathon (24 hours) setting a new world record of KM 83,7 and shuttering the previous record of 70.3 KM 2,3 |
* In May 1976 at the age of 15 wins the World Championship in [[finswimming]] marathon (24 hours) setting a new world record of KM 83,7 and shuttering the previous record of 70.3 KM 2,3 |
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* July 77 wins the Italian National title of open water swim (11.500 mt -Bacoli, NA) 2:14 4 |
* July 77 wins the Italian National title of open water swim (11.500 mt -Bacoli, NA) 2:14 4 |
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* May 78 wins again the World Championship in finswimming KM 77,8. |
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Peppo Biscarini (Italo-american born in Milan November 4, 1960 ) is an italian and US swimmer, freediver, actor and evangelist.
Early life
Italo-american born in Milan November 4, 1960 to Sergio Biscarini, opera singer, [1] and Griffi Clotilde, obstetrician. He moves to the USA in ‘79 to train for the 84 Olympics in swimming and to study. Gets married in Santa Barbara to Jane in 1987 and has Marco (1992) and Isabella (1997).
Swimming and Freediving
Starts his swimming career at the age of 6 and participates at his first age group Nationals at the age of 11.
- In May 1976 at the age of 15 wins the World Championship in finswimming marathon (24 hours) setting a new world record of KM 83,7 and shuttering the previous record of 70.3 KM 2,3
- July 77 wins the Italian National title of open water swim (11.500 mt -Bacoli, NA) 2:14 4
- May 78 wins again the World Championship in finswimming KM 77,8.
- 1978 Italian National champion in open water and representative for Italy to the Open water World Championship Capri Napoli (1979) 5
- 1978 Member of the Italian National finswimming team at the European finswimming championship.
- 1986-1989 5 National US titles in finswimming (100 and 200 mt and yds)
- 1989 All American Swimmer with 2 gold’s (100 e 200 mt) and 1 silver (50mt) at the World Corporate Games in San Francisco 6.
- He is responsible for bringing the sport of finswimming and the monofin, until then unknown, to North America.
- Founder of Hyperfin, a high tech fin manufacturing Co. 7,7a, 8,9,10, works as a technical consultant with the best swimming universities like Stanford, UC Berkley, Texas A&M, USC.
- Technical consultant to Lockheed Martin under water division to develop a human powered submarine 11
- 1992-1996 Trains the US Navy Seals CISM team 12 for their World Games 13
- Representative and best US athlete at the freediving World Cup in 1998 (Sardinia-Italy) with National records of constant weight (51 mt), dynamic swim (125 mt) and static breath hold (5 min.39 sec) 14,15.
- Speaker at the World Clinic for swimming coaches -Chicago 1995. (integrated techniques of finswimming for the benefit of high level swimming, CO2 tolerance training and swimming with snorkels) 15a
- "blue water hunter” writes often for Pesca Sub, an italian specialty magazine 16-
- World record 21° century for white sea bass 27.8 kg 1997 17
- Former and current sponsors: Tarzasub, Technisub, Dacor, Mat-Mas, TYR, Topsub, C4.
Television
- Modeling career starts in San Diego with Artist Management 18 and in Italy with Fashion Model 19
- Between 1984 and 1989 appears in numerous national TV commercials like Honda, Ford, Coca Cola, Hilton, Sprint, Anheuser-Busch, Sprint, Unocal 76, Wheel of Fortune; in the TV soaps Capital-CBS 20 in the movie “Dolphin, whales and us” 21 and in Italy in the movie Italian Fast Food 22.
Evangelist
- Recruited by Campus Crusade for Christ 23 (present in 191 nations) from 2000 to 2004 and pursues theological studies while living and ministering to influencers in Palm Beach, FL
- Returns to Italy with Greater Europe Mission 24 as the National director from 2004 to 2011 25
- Preaches in different churches and nonprofit organizations 26, 27, 28
- Writes “Quale via, verità, vita?” 29
- From 2013 evangelizes with an International base from Manfredonia (FG) 30, 31.
