Giovanna Trillini
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Giovanna Trillini in 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born |
Iesi, Italy | 17 May 1970|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weapon(s) | foil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hand | right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | G.S. Forestale/CS Jesi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Giovanna Trillini (born 17 May 1970 in Iesi) is an Italian foil fencer. She is a 4-time Olympic champion (3 times in the team event, 1 time individual) and she 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)
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 (1991, 1994, 1995, 1998)
Honours and awards
See also
References
- ↑ "Olympics Statistics: Giovanna Trillini". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-26.
- ↑ "Giovanna Trillini Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 2011-12-26.
- ↑ "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). 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). Retrieved 30 September 2013.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Giovanna Trillini. |
- Giovanna Trillini at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
- Giovanna Trillini profile from site Eurofencing.info
- Giovanna Trillini profile from site of FIE
- (in Italian) Official website
- (in Italian) Personal data
Awards | ||
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Preceded by Annarita Sidoti |
Italian Sportswoman of the Year 1991-1992 |
Succeeded by Stefania Belmondo |
Summer Olympics | ||
Preceded by Giuseppe Abbagnale |
1996 Atlanta |
Succeeded by Carlton Myers |