Manlio Di Rosa

Manlio Di Rosa medal table
fencing
Italy
Olympic games
gold	1936 Berlin	Foil (team)
silver	1948 London	Foil (team)
silver	1952 Helsinki	Foil (team)
bronze	1952 Helsinki	foil
gold	1956 Melbourne	Foil (team)
World championships
gold	1933 Budapest	Foil (team)
gold	1934 Warsaw	Foil (team)
gold	1937 Paris	Foil (team)
silver	1947 Lisbon	foil
silver	1947 Lisbon	Foil (team)
gold	1949 Cairo	Foil (team)
gold	1950 Monte Carlo	Foil (team)
gold	1951 Stockholm	foil
silver	1951 Stockholm	Foil (team)
silver	1953 Brussels	Foil (team)
bronze	1953 Brussels	foil
gold	1954 Luxembourg	Foil (team)
gold	1955 Rome	Foil (team)
Mediterranean Games
gold	1951 Alexandria	Foil (team)
silver	1955 Barcelona	Foil (team)

Manlio Di Rosa (born September 14, 1914 in Livorno ; † March 15, 1989 ibid) was an Italian fencer who was among the world's best with the foil for more than two decades before and after the Second World War .

career

Di Rosa drew international attention for the first time as a member of the victorious Italian foil team at the “International Championships” in Budapest in 1933 - the FIE did not officially recognize the world championships until 1937. At this point he was already an Olympic champion with the team; the previous year in Berlin they beat the French selection . Overall, Di Rosa won five medals at four different Summer Olympics over the course of his career . Only one of the Olympic competitions to which he competed, he could not finish with a medal: In London in 1948 he only achieved sixth place in the foil individual .

He secured eight world championship titles, including the individual foil world champion in Stockholm in 1951 , and defending the team title at the 1955 World Championships in front of a home crowd in Rome was one of the glamorous highlights of Di Rosa's active sporting career.

Web links

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