Margherita Zalaffi

Margherita Zalaffi medal table
fencing
Italy
Olympic games
silver	Seoul 1988	Foil team
gold	Barcelona 1992	Foil team
silver	Atlanta 1996	Epee team
World championships
silver	Sofia 1986	Foil team
bronze	Lausanne 1987	Foil team
bronze	Denver 1989	Foil team
gold	Lyon 1990	Foil team
gold	Budapest 1991	Foil team
bronze	Nîmes 2001	Epee team
European championships
gold	Bolzano 1999	Epee team

Margherita Zalaffi (born April 7, 1966 in Siena ) is a former Italian fencer .

successes

Margherita Zalaffi achieved all international successes in the team competition. She initially fought with the foil before switching to the rapier in the course of her career . With the foil she became world champion in Lyon in 1990 and in Budapest in 1991 and also won a silver medal and two bronze medals. With the sword she won bronze in 2001 in Nîmes . At the European Championships in 1999 in Bozen , she won the title with her sword. Zalaffi took part in five Olympic Games . In 1984 in Los Angeles she finished 15th in the individual, while she just missed a medal win with the team in fourth. Four years later in Seoul she was ninth in the individual. With the team she reached the final against Germany , which was lost 4: 9, and thus received the silver medal together with Francesca Bortolozzi , Annapia Gandolfi , Lucia Traversa and Dorina Vaccaroni . The 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona were even more successful when they once again reached the final with the team, in which the German team was defeated 9: 6 this time. In addition to Diana Bianchedi , Francesca Bortolozzi, Giovanna Trillini and Dorina Vaccaroni, Zalaffi became Olympic champion . She finished the individual competition in fifth place. At the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996 , she competed with the sword and immediately reached the semi-finals in the individual. There she was defeated by Valérie Barlois at 6:15 and also in the battle for bronze against Gyöngyi Szalay-Horváth at 13:15. In the team competition, she reached the final together with Elisa Uga and Laura Chiesa after victories against Estonia and Hungary , in which France prevailed 45:33. In Sydney , she was seventh in the individual at the 2000 Olympic Games .

Web links

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