Valentina Vezzali

Valentina Vezzali medal table
Valentina Vezzali (2014)
fencing
Italy
Olympic games
	1996 Atlanta	Foil team
	2000 Sydney	foil
	2000 Sydney	Foil team
	2004 Athens	foil
	2008 Beijing	foil
	2012 London	Foil team
	1996 Atlanta	foil
	2008 Beijing	Foil team
	2012 London	foil

Maria Valentina Vezzali (born February 14, 1974 in Jesi ) is an Italian foil fencer . She won gold at all Summer Olympics from 1996 to 2012. From 2000 to 2008 she won singles. She was also Olympic champion three times with the team. She was also six times individual world champion and ten times team world champion, making her the most successful female fencer of all time.

successes

Olympic games

• 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta : silver in foil - singles and gold with the team.
• Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney : two gold medals in the individual and in the team classification, also in foil
• 2004 Olympic Games in Athens : Gold in the individual foil, defeating her compatriot Giovanna Trillini in the final .
• 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing : gold in foil -Single, thereby defeating in the final from South Korea originating Nam Hyun-hee .
• Olympic Games 2012 in London : bronze in foil -Single, thereby defeating the small final from South Korea originating Nam Hyun-hee . Also gold with the team.

Championships

Valentina Vezzali became world champion for the first time in 1999 . She won her other individual world championship titles in 2001 , 2003 , 2005 , 2007 and 2011 . In 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015 she was team world champion.

Team gold at the EM 2014: Elisa Di Francisca , Arianna Errigo , Martina Batini and Valentina Vezzali

She was also five times European champion in 1998, 1999, 2001, 2009 and 2010. She also won gold with the Italian team in 1999, 2001, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015.

With 13 national championship titles, Vezzali is the Italian record holder.

Political career

Since the parliamentary elections in Italy 2013 on 24./25. February 2013 Valentina Vezzali sits in Parliament for the list of Mario Monti ( Scelta Civica con Monti per l'Italia).

Awards

• Italy's Sportswoman of the Year ( La Gazzetta dello Sport ): 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007 and World Sportswoman of the Year 2004 and World Team of the Year 2012 (together with Elisa Di Francisca , Arianna Errigo and Ilaria Salvatori )
• In 2008 she was awarded the “Premio Gianni Brera - Sportivo dell'anno” (Gianni Brera Prize).

Web links

Commons : Valentina Vezzali  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website by Valentina Vezzali
• Curricula Atleti - Valentina Vezzali. (PDF; 73 kB) Federazione Italiana Scherma, August 26, 2014, accessed on January 5, 2015 (Italian). 
• Valentina Vezzali - Rankings and Results in the database of the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (English / French)
• VEZZALI Valentina - Biography in the database of the European Fencing Confederation (English)
• Valentina Vezzali in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• History of the fencing world championships (women's foil) from sport-komplett.de
• History European Fencing Championships (women's foil) from sport-komplett.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official website of the 2012 Olympic Games in London (fencing) accessed on September 24, 2012
2. ^ Record list of Italian fencing championships. In: Federazione Italiana Scherma. Archived from the original on June 7, 2009 ; Retrieved December 12, 2009 (Italian). 
3. ↑ Fencing International: Italy election: Vezzali and Idem in parliament. (No longer available online.) Handelsblatt.de, February 27, 2013, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved February 27, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.