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Peppo Biscarini

Peppo Biscarini
Freediving World Cup 1998
Personal information
Full namePeppo Biscarini
NationalityItalian-American
Born (1960-11-04) November 4, 1960 (age 64)
Milan, Italy
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight95 kg (209 lb)
Websitebiscarini.com
Sport
SportSwimming

Peppo Biscarini is an Italian-American swimmer, freediver, entrepreneur and evangelist. He represented both Italy and the United States in various international competitions and also won many titles. After retiring from his athletic career, he had a long stint as coach and entrepreneur. Later in life he responded to a higher calling and directed his life towards evangelism.[1]

Early life

Biscarini was born in Milan on November 4, 1960, to Sergio Biscarini, an opera singer, and Griffi Clotilde, an obstetrician. He moved to the United States in 1979 to train for the 1984 Olympics in swimming as well as to study. In 1999, he returned to Italy and opened the first Hedgefund marketing firm.[2]

Personal life

In 1987, he married Jane in Santa Barbara, California[3] and the couple have two children, Isabella and Marco.

Career

Swimming

Biscarini started his swimming career at the age of 5 and participated at his first age group Nationals at the age of 10.[4] In May 1976, at the age of 15 years, Peppo won the World Championship in finswimming marathon (24 hours), setting a new world record of 83.7 km by breaking the previous world record of 70.3 km.[5] In 1980, he introduced for the first time in the US the monofin and the front-mounted snorkel starting a working relationship with coach Thornton at UC Berkeley[6] and was credited as the person who introduced the sport of finswimming -the monofin and front-mounted snorkels- until then unknown, to North America.[7] Biscarini was also the member of the Italian National Team at the European finswimming championship. In 1987, he was named US national technical director for the sport of finswimming by the Underwater Society of America, member of the USOC and controlling body for finswimming in the United States. He often writes for Pesca Sub, an Italian speciality magazine.[8] In 1989, he founded Hyperfin, a high tech fin manufacturing company,[9][10] and worked as a technical consultant with swimming programs at various top division 1 universities. In 1978, he became the Italian National champion in the open water swimming and represented Italy to the FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships Capri-Napoli in 1979. Biscarini is also a 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 front snorkels.

Biscarini also served as the technical consultant to Lockheed Martin underwater division to develop a human-powered submarine.[11] From 1992 to 1996, he trained the US Navy Seals team for the International Military Sports Council (CISM) Military World Games in Coronado Island,CA. In 1998 he was best US athlete at the Freediving World Championship setting a US national record in constant weight (51 meters) after having set the US static breath hold record at 5:40.

Entrepreneur Evangelist and Life Coach

After 15 years of business as an entrepreneur and hedge fund marketer with the 1st Internet firm in this business, he was recruited by Campus Crusade for Christ.[12] Biscarini pursued theological studies while living and ministering to influencers in Palm Beach, Florida from 2000 to 2004. He then returned to Italy and served as the National Director of GEM from 2004 to 2011.[13] He also preached in different churches and nonprofit organizations.[14][15][16] and wrote a manual for basic Christianity: "Quale via, verità, vita?".[17] In 2012, he established ViaVeritas Inc as an international tool for evangelism and an instrument for cross-cultural student exchanges.[18][19] He also created a sister city relationship between Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Manfredonia, Italy, with the approval of the respective mayors and the Sister City association in March 2014.[20][21] He has an Italian podcast Peppo Pod discussing everyday occurrences in light of an eternal plan and a bilingual (English Italian) weekly YouTube videocast PeppoCast PeppoCast E

Awards

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).[22][23] AIDA and PADI freediving instructor

Year Title Result Distance Ref
1976 World Championship finswimming
WR 83.7 km [24][25][26]
1977 National open water Championship, Italy
11.5 km - 2:14.10
1978 World Championship finswimming
77.8 km
1986-1989 National Championship finswimming, USA
100 and 200 mt
1986-1989 National Championship finswimming, USA
50 mt
1989 World corporate games - All-America title
NR 100 and 200 mt
1989 World corporate games - All-America title
50 mt
1998 World Cup Freediving - best US athlete NR 51 mt C.W.
1998 World Cup Freediving - best US athlete NR 5:40 static BH

Television

References

  1. ^ "Evangelistic work". CRU. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  2. ^ "Biscarini's biography". Biscarini. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
  3. ^ "P.Biscarini: gemellaggio Chattanooga-Manfredonia per dare a giovani domani migliore". April 4, 2014. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
  4. ^ Wathen, Alec (May 11, 2017). "Training With a Monofin by Peppo Biscarini (1995)". American Swimming Coaches Association. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
  5. ^ "Achievement news clips collection". Biscarini. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  6. ^ "Credited as the person who introduced monofin". Free Dive. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  7. ^ "Fin swimming record of Biscarini". The New York Times. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  8. ^ "Listed in Pesca Sub". Pesca Sub. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  9. ^ "Patent owner of swim fin with a cantilevered heel". US Patent. Archived from the original on January 22, 2015. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  10. ^ "Shared expert view on use of Neoprene_lined foot pockets". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  11. ^ "Human powered submarine". ISRS. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  12. ^ "Evangelistic work". CRU. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  13. ^ "Return to Italy as an evangelist". Mission Network Online. Archived from the original on September 6, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  14. ^ "Shared message at Horizon Church". Horizon Church. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  15. ^ "Recorded messages". Bomb-mp3. Archived from the original on April 10, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  16. ^ "Messages". Barnabas group. Archived from the original on December 11, 2014. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  17. ^ "Manual on basic Christianity". clcsvizzera. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 25, 2015.
  18. ^ "Platform for transcontinental cultural exchange". Peppo Biscarini. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 25, 2015.
  19. ^ "Recorded sample message". Puglia Sounds. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved March 25, 2015.
  20. ^ "Established Inter city relationship". statoquotidiano. Retrieved March 25, 2015.
  21. ^ "A chat with Peppo Biscarini". Nooga. Retrieved March 25, 2015.
  22. ^ "On free diving". AIDA. Archived from the original on February 6, 2015. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  23. ^ "US National Record". oocities.org. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  24. ^ "About Corporate Games". Corporate Games. Archived from the original on January 22, 2015. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  25. ^ "The Press-Tribune from Roseville, California on August 28, 1979 · 1". Newspapers.com. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
  26. ^ "Offline press coverage". Retrieved March 13, 2020.
  27. ^ "Modeling career". Artist Management. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  28. ^ "Modeling career". Fashion Model. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  29. ^ "In documentary on deep sea life". Yahoo. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
  30. ^ "On Italian Fast food". imdb. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
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