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| Born | 23 June 1961 Mestre, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Andrea Borella (born 23 June 1961) is an Italian fencer. His team won a gold medal in the team foil event at the 1984 Summer Olympics. [1] [2] He won a bronze medal in the individual foil event at the 1991 Mediterranean Games. [3] Borella won European Championships in 1981 and 1983, as well as three World Cups. He is married to Francesca Bortolozzi, who was also an Olympic fencing champion for Italy.
Edoardo Mangiarotti was an Italian fencer. He won a total of 39 Olympic titles and World championships, more than any other fencer in the history of the sport. His Olympic medals include one individual gold, five team golds, five silver, and two bronze medals from 1936 to 1960.
Maria Valentina Vezzali is an Italian politician and retired fencer. As a fencer, Vezzali won six Olympic gold medals and was a 16-time World Champion in foil. She is one of only five athletes in the history of the Summer Olympic Games to have won five medals in the same individual event.
Andrea Baldini is an Italian foil fencer, several time European and World champion and team Olympic champion in 2012. He is the only foil fencer in history to have obtained four golds and the final victory in the World Cup in the same season.
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Mauro Numa is an Italian fencer and one of the strongest during the 1980s.His career started very early and in 1979, at 18, he was included in the Foil's Italian Team. In 1980 Numa could not compete at the Moscow Olympic Games due to the boycott.
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Adrien Rommel was a French fencer. He won a gold medal in the team foil events at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the Mediterranean Games in 1951 where he won a silver medal in the team foil event and in 1955 where he won a gold medal in the team foil event.
Vittorio Lucarelli was an Italian fencer. He won a gold medal in the team foil event at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the 1955 Mediterranean Games where he won silver medals in the épée and foil team events and a bronze medal in the individual foil event.
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Carlo Montano is an Italian fencer. He won a silver medal in the team foil event at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the Mediterranean Games in the individual foil event winning a gold medal in 1971 and a silver medal in 1975.
Didier Flament is a French fencer. He won a gold medal in the team foil event at the 1980 Summer Olympics and a bronze in the same event at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He also won a gold medal in the individual foil event at the 1979 Mediterranean Games.
Giovanni Battista Coletti is an Italian fencer. He won a silver medal in the team foil event at the 1976 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal in the individual foil event at the 1975 Mediterranean Games.
Pascal Jolyot is a French fencer. He won a gold medal in the team foil and a silver in the individual foil events at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He won a bronze medal in the team foil event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Andrea Cipressa is an Italian fencer. He won a gold medal in the team foil event at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He is now director of foil for the Italian Fencing Federation. His daughter, Erica Cipressa, is also a foil fencer. He is the Commissario tecnico of the Italy national fencing team.
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Margherita Zalaffi is an Italian former fencer. She won a gold medal in the women's team foil event at the 1992 Summer Olympics and silvers at the same event in 1988 and in the women's team épée in 1996. She competed at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000.
The men's foil was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1988 Summer Olympics programme. It was the twentieth appearance of the event. The competition was held from 20 to 21 September 1988. 68 fencers from 29 nations competed. Nations had been limited to three fencers each since 1928. The event was won by Stefano Cerioni of Italy, the nation's second consecutive and seventh overall victory in the men's foil. Cerioni was the ninth man to win multiple medals in the event. Udo Wagner earned East Germany's first medal in the event with his silver, while Aleksandr Romankov's bronze put the Soviet Union back on the podium after a one-Games absence caused by the boycott. Romankov also became the third man to win three medals in the event.
Francesca Bortolozzi is an Italian former fencer. She won two gold medals and a silver in the women's team foil events between 1988 and 1996. She won a gold medal at the individual foil event. She is married to Andrea Borella, who was also an Olympic fencing champion for Italy.
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