Manlio Di Rosa
Manlio Di Rosa medal table |
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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
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Di Rosa, Manlio |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian foil fencer and Olympic champion |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1914 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Livorno |
DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1989 |
Place of death | Livorno |