Giovanna Trillini
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Born | Iesi, Italy | 17 May 1970||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weapon | foil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hand | right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | G.S. Forestale/CS Jesi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Giovanna Trillini (born 17 May 1970 in Iesi) is an Italian foil fencer. She is a 4-time Olympic champion (3 times in the team event, 1 time individual) and she won an additional silver and two bronze medals in individual Olympic competitions.
Biography
She has two brothers, Ezio and Roberto, who were both fencers. In 2001, she got her degree in Sport Science at the University of Urbino.
Trillini won the bronze medal at the foil 2006 World Fencing Championships after she lost 15–8 to Margherita Granbassi in the semi-final. Later in the tournament she also won a silver in the team's foil event together with her teammates Elisa Di Francisca, Margherita Granbassi and Valentina Vezzali.
In 1998 she married Giovanni Battista Rotella. They have two children: Claudia, born on 12 September 2005 and Giovanni, born on 1 August 2009.
Achievements
- Foil individual (1992) and Foil team (1992, 1996, 2000)
- Foil individual (2004)
- Foil individual (1996, 2000) and Foil team (2008)
- Foil individual (1991, 1997) and Foil team (1990, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2004)
- Foil individual (1990, 1995) and Foil team (1986, 1994, 2006)
- Foil individual (1989, 1998, 2006, 2007) and Foil team (1987)
Honours and awards
Italy: Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (Italian for: Grand Officer Order of Merit of the Italian Republic ), 1 September 2008
See also
- 1970 births
- Living people
- People from Iesi
- University of Urbino alumni
- Italian female fencers
- Fencers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic fencers for Italy
- Olympic gold medalists for Italy
- Olympic silver medalists for Italy
- Olympic bronze medalists for Italy
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Fencers of Gruppo Sportivo Forestale
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Universiade medalists in fencing
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Italy
- Universiade bronze medalists for Italy
- Medalists at the 1989 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 1991 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 1993 Summer Universiade
- Sportspeople from the Province of Ancona
- 20th-century Italian women
- 21st-century Italian women
- Fencers at the 1991 Mediterranean Games
- Fencers at the 1993 Mediterranean Games
- Fencers at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy
- Mediterranean Games medalists in fencing