Giancarlo Peris (born November 4, 1941), an Italian track athlete of Greek descent, was the final bearer of the Olympic torch for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy.^[1]

Peris was born in Civitavecchia, a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea 70 kilometers northwest of Rome. The Italian National Olympic Committee decided that last torchbearer of the Olympic Games, would have been the winner of a junior Cross country running race. He won and he was chosen to be the last torchbearer.^[1] However, he was a very promising young half-track athlete, among other things having participated, few months before the opening of the Olympic games, in a competition of the national junior/youth team against Poland.

Currently as of 2004^[update] he teaches history and Italian at the technical high-school "G. Baccelli" of Civitavecchia. He has two sons, aged 35 and 28 years. Besides teaching he is the trainer of a small light athletics club. He also enjoys writing and teaching the writing of verse.

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• (Italian) Peris' interview at YouTube (requires Adobe Flash)

Preceded by Ron Clarke Melbourne 1956

Final Summer Olympic Torchbearer Giancarlo Peris Rome 1960

Succeeded by Yoshinori Sakai Tokyo 1964

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