Giovanna Trillini
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Born | (1970-05-17) 17 May 1970 (age 54) Jesi, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weapon | foil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hand | right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | G.S. Forestale/CS Jesi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Giovanna Trillini (born 17 May 1970 in Jesi) is an Italian foil fencer. She is a 4-time Olympic champion (3 times in the team event, 1 time individual) and won an additional silver and two bronze medals in individual Olympic competitions.[1][2]
Biography
She has two brothers, Ezio and Roberto, who were both fencers. In 2001, she got her degree in Sport Science at the University of Urbino.[3]
Trillini won the bronze medal at the foil 2006 World Fencing Championships after she lost 15–8 to Margherita Granbassi in the semi-final. Later in the tournament she also won a silver in the team's foil event together with her teammates Elisa Di Francisca, Margherita Granbassi and Valentina Vezzali.
In 1998 she married Giovanni Battista Rotella. They have two children: Claudia, born on 12 September 2005[4][5][6] and Giovanni, born on 1 August 2009.[7][8]
Achievements
- Foil individual (1992) and Foil team (1992, 1996, 2000)
- Foil individual (2004)
- Foil individual (1996, 2000) and Foil team (2008)
- World Championships
- Foil individual (1991, 1997) and Foil team (1990, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2004)
- Foil individual (1990, 1995) and Foil team (1986, 1994, 2006)
- Foil individual (1989, 1998, 2006, 2007) and Foil team (1987)
- Foil team (1999, 2000)
- Foil individual (2001)
- Foil individual (1994) and Foil team (1998, 2007)
- Foil individual (1997)[9]
- Foil individual (1991, 1993)[9]
- Foil (1991, 1994, 1995, 1998)
Honours and awards
Italy: Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (Italian for: Grand Officer Order of Merit of the Italian Republic ), 1 September 2008
See also
- Italian sportswomen multiple medalists at Olympics and World Championships
- Italy national fencing team – Multiple medallist
- List of multiple Summer Olympic medalists
References
- ^ "Olympics Statistics: Giovanna Trillini". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
- ^ "Giovanna Trillini". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
- ^ "La Biografia" [Biography]. Giovanna Trillini Official Web site (in Italian). Retrieved 30 September 2013.
- ^ "UN FIOCCO ROSA TRA LE MEDAGLIE D'ORO". Giovanna Trillini Official Web site (in Italian). Retrieved 30 September 2013.
- ^ "SCHERMA, GIOVANNA TRILLINI MAMMA: E' NATA CLAUDIA" [Fencing, Giovanna Trillini is a mom]. La Repubblica (in Italian). 13 September 2005. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
- ^ "GIOVANNA TRILLINI E' DIVENTATA MAMMA: E' NATA CLAUDIA" [Giovanna Trillini is a mom]. Federazione Italiana Scherma (in Italian). Archived from the original on 30 September 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
- ^ "Scherma: nato figlio Trillini" [Fencing, born Trillini's son]. Tuttosport (in Italian). Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
- ^ Vito Graffeo (1 August 2009). "La Trillini è mamma" [Trillini is a mom]. Sportlive (in Italian). Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
- ^ a b "Olympedia – Giovanna Trillini". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
External links
- Giovanna Trillini at the International Fencing Federation
- Giovanna Trillini at the European Fencing Confederation
- Giovanna Trillini at Olympics.com
- Giovanna Trillini at Olympedia
- Giovanna Trillini at the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)
- Giovanna Trillini at Eurofencing.info
- Giovanna Trillini at FIE
- Official website (in Italian)
- Profile at federscherma.it (in Italian)
Awards | ||
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Preceded by | Italian Sportswoman of the Year 1991-1992 | Succeeded by |
Summer Olympics | ||
Preceded by | Flag bearer for Italy 1996 Atlanta | Succeeded by |
- v
- t
- e
- 1924: Ellen Osiier (DEN)
- 1928: Helene Mayer (GER)
- 1932: Ellen Preis (AUT)
- 1936: Ilona Elek (HUN)
- 1948: Ilona Elek (HUN)
- 1952: Irene Camber (ITA)
- 1956: Gillian Sheen (GBR)
- 1960: Heidi Schmid (EUA)
- 1964: Ildikó Rejtő (HUN)
- 1968: Elena Belova (URS)
- 1972: Antonella Ragno-Lonzi (ITA)
- 1976: Ildikó Schwarczenberger (HUN)
- 1980: Pascale Trinquet (FRA)
- 1984: Luan Jujie (CHN)
- 1988: Anja Fichtel (FRG)
- 1992: Giovanna Trillini (ITA)
- 1996: Laura Badea (ROU)
- 2000: Valentina Vezzali (ITA)
- 2004: Valentina Vezzali (ITA)
- 2008: Valentina Vezzali (ITA)
- 2012: Elisa Di Francisca (ITA)
- 2016: Inna Deriglazova (RUS)
- 2020: Lee Kiefer (USA)
- 2024: Lee Kiefer (USA)