title: Elisabetta Sancassani
text: # Elisabetta Sancassani
  
  Maria Elisabetta Sancassani (born 6 February 1983) is an Italian female competition rower. A gold medal winner at the 2005 Mediterranean Games she twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics, in 2004 and 2008. She began competing as a lightweight in 2012 and won the women's lightweight double scull in 2013 with Laura Milani, both at the European Rowing Championships and the World Rowing Championships.
  
  She is the younger sister of nine-time world champion rower Franco Sancassani.
  
  