Giovanni Sirovich | |||||||||
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Born | Rome, Italy | 8 September 1971||||||||
Sport | |||||||||
Sport | Fencing | ||||||||
Weapon | Sabre | ||||||||
Hand | left-handed | ||||||||
Medal record
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Giovanni Sirovich (born 8 September 1971) is an Italian sabre fencer. He competed in the men's team sabre at the 1992 Summer Olympics. [1] He won the gold medal in the 1993 Summer Universiade and the same year a team silver medal in the World Championships. He became a fencing coach after his retirement as an athlete. He is now technical director for sabre at the Federazione Italiana Scherma.
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