Ciro Verratti

Ciro Verratti medal table
fencing
Italy
Olympic games
gold	1936 Berlin	Foil team

Ciro Verratti (born August 17, 1907 in Archi ; † July 6, 1971 in Milan ) was an Italian journalist and fencer who had specialized in the foil .

biography

Verratti won the gold medal with the team, which included a total of eight athletes, at the 1929 World Fencing Championships in Naples , where only European associations competed. In the next few years he won several titles at the international championships and was also Italian champion in 1939.

However, Verratti's greatest sporting success remained the gold medal, also with the team, at the 1936 Olympic fencing competitions in Berlin . There he beat the French team in the final together with Giorgio Bocchino , Manlio Di Rosa , Giulio Gaudini , Gioacchino Guaragna and Gustavo Marzi and thus became Olympic champion. He did not start in the foil singles.

Parallel to his sports career, Verratti also began his career as a journalist, after he had retired from fencing, he became a reporter at the Corriere della Sera from 1961 , for which he reported at the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France . The Italian died in 1971 at the age of 64 in a car accident.

Web links

• Ciro Verratti in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• History of the World Fencing Championships (men's foil) from sport-komplett.de