Irene Vecchi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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![]() Vecchi at the 2013 World Fencing Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Livorno | 10 June 1989||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weapon | Sabre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hand | right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | GS Fiamme Gialle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach | Nicola Zanotti | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FIE ranking | current ranking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Irene Vecchi (10 June 1989, [1] Livorno) is an Italian sabre fencer. She earned a bronze medal [2] in the 2013 World Championships and 2017 World Championships, an individual bronze at the 2013 European Championships and won the team gold medal at the 2011 European Fencing Championships. [3] [4]
She has twice competed for Italy at the Olympics, in the women's sabre individual in 2012 and 2016 and in the women's team sabre in 2016. [5] [6] She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Sabre [7]
Vecchi has a degree in political science from the University of Pisa, and works as a police officer. [4] She began to fence at the age of eight; her mother worked at a fencing hall and enrolled her. [4]
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