Bruna Colombetti

Bruna Colombetti medal table
fencing
Italy
Olympic games
bronze	Rome 1960	Foil team
World championships
silver	Luxembourg 1954	Foil team
silver	Rome 1955	foil
bronze	Rome 1955	Foil team
gold	Paris 1957	Foil team
bronze	Buenos Aires 1962	Foil team
bronze	Gdansk 1963	Foil team
bronze	Paris 1965	Foil team

Bruna Giulia Colombetti-Peroncini (born January 27, 1936 in Milan , † July 26, 2008 ibid) was an Italian foil fencer .

successes

Bruna Colombetti achieved all international successes with the team. At world championships she won four bronze medals with this between 1955 and 1965, and silver in Luxembourg in 1954 . In 1957 in Paris she became world champion with the team. In addition, she was runner-up in the individual world championship in 1955. Colombetti took part in four Olympic Games . In 1956 in Melbourne , she finished eighth. At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome , she and the team lost the semi-finals against Hungary 3: 9, but then the Italian team won the battle for third place against Germany . Together with Irene Camber , Claudia Pasini , Velleda Cesari and Antonella Ragno-Lonzi she received the bronze medal. In singles, she was eliminated in the quarter-finals. In 1964 in Tokyo , she just missed another medal win in the team competition as fourth. She finished the individual competition in seventh place. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , Colombetti finished 13th in the singles and sixth in the team competition.

Web links

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• Bruna Colombetti in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )