Alessandro Puccini

Alessandro Puccini medal table
fencing
Italy
Olympic games
gold	Atlanta 1996	foil
World championships
gold	Lyon 1990	Foil team
silver	Essen 1993	Foil team
silver	Athens 1994	foil
gold	Athens 1994	Foil team
bronze	Cape Town 1997	Foil team
European championships
gold	Bolzano 1999	Foil team

Alessandro Puccini (born August 28, 1968 in Pisa ) is a former Italian foil fencer . He is an Olympic champion and was world and European champion.

successes

Alessandro Puccini became world champions with the team in Lyon in 1990 and in Athens in 1994 . In addition, he reached the podium with her in 1993 in Essen with second place and 1997 in Cape Town with third place. His best performance in the individual came in 1994 when he reached the final. In this he was defeated by Rolando Tucker and became vice world champion. At the European Championships in 1999 he won gold with the team in Bolzano . Puccini took part in the Olympic Games twice. In 1992 he reached sixth place with the team in Barcelona . Four years later , he finished eighth with the team in Atlanta . In the singles, after three opening wins , he beat Franck Boidin in the semifinals with 15:13. The subsequent final he decided against Lionel Plumenail with 15:12 and became Olympic champion .

Web links

• Alessandro Puccini - Rankings and Results in the database of the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (English / French)
• Alessandro Puccini in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )