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| Born | 28 August 1968 Cascina, Pisa, Italy | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||
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Alessandro Puccini (born 28 August 1968) is an Italian fencer and Olympic champion in foil competition.
He competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics [1] and he won a gold medal in the individual foil event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. [2]
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