About Gary Piantedosi:

Gary Piantedosi’s personal rowing career began at MIT, where he was also trained as a mechanical engineer.  His crews won silver medals at the 1973, ’74 and ’75 Eastern Sprints and IRAs.  He was a spare for the US World Champion Eight in 1974, rowed the Straight Pair in the 1975 PanAm Games and the Straight Four in the 1976 Olympics.  Today, Gary is an avid Masters sweep rower and an open ocean racer who enjoys competing wherever there are waves.  As an Olympian, Gary brings proven experience in the competitive rowing world and as an MIT-trained engineer, his technical prowess has been well-honed.

For more than thirty years, Gary Piantedosi has been designing and manufacturing equipment for the rowing world.  Row-Right.com was founded by Gary and is now a division of Alden Rowing Shells.