Daniele Garozzo

Daniele Garozzo
Personal information
Born	(1992-08-04) 4 August 1992 (age 29) Acireale, Italy
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Sport
Country	Italy
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	Foil
Hand	right-handed
National coach	Andrea Cipressa
Club	GS Fiamme Gialle[1]
Head coach	Fabio Galli
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Individual 2020 Tokyo Individual World Championships 2015 Moscow Team 2017 Leipzig Team 2018 Wuxi Team 2017 Leipzig Individual 2019 Budapest Team European Championships 2017 Tbilisi Individual 2015 Montreux Individual 2016 Toruń Team 2018 Novi Sad Individual 2018 Novi Sad Team 2019 Düsseldorf Individual 2017 Tbilisi Team 2019 Düsseldorf Team

Daniele Garozzo ([daˈnjɛːle ɡaˈrɔttso]; born 4 August 1992) is an Italian right-handed foil fencer, 2017 individual European champion, three-time team world champion, 2021 individual Olympic silver medalist, and 2016 individual Olympic champion.^[2]

He is the younger brother of Italian épée fencer Enrico Garozzo.^[3]

Career[]

Garozzo won the 2008 Cadet World Championships at home in Acireale, then took a silver medal in the 2011 and 2012 Junior World Championships. In the 2013 Summer Universiade he was defeated in the semifinals by Russia's Aleksey Cheremisinov and came away with a bronze medal.^[3] In the 2014–15 season he climbed his first World Cup podium with a silver medal in the Challenge International de Paris.^[4] He earned a silver medal at the 2015 European Championships after being defeated in the final by teammate Andrea Cassarà.

Ranked number 11 in the world, Garozzo was the surprise winner of the gold medal in the Men's Individual Foil at the 2016 Summer Olympics, beating the American world number 1 Alexander Massialas in the final; his victory raised his world ranking to number 2.^[5][6] Yet in the same event at the next Olympics in 2021, he was defeated by Cheung Ka Long from Hong Kong with a score of 15-11, claiming his first Olympic silver medal.^[7]

Medal Record[]

Olympic Games[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Individual Men's Foil	1st[8]
2021	Tokyo, Japan	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[9]

World Championship[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2015	Moscow, Russia	Team Men's Foil	1st[10]
2017	Leipzig, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[11]
2017	Leipzig, Germany	Team Men's Foil	1st[12]
2018	Wuxi, China	Team Men's Foil	1st[13]
2019	Budapest, Hungary	Team Men's Foil	3rd[14]

European Championship[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2015	Montreux, Switzerland	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[15]
2016	Toruń, Poland	Team Men's Foil	2nd[16]
2017	Tbilisi, Georgia	Individual Men's Foil	1st[17]
2017	Tbilisi, Georgia	Team Men's Foil	3rd[18]
2018	Novi Sad, Serbia	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[19]
2018	Novi Sad, Serbia	Team Men's Foil	2nd[20]
2019	Düsseldorf, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[21]
2019	Düsseldorf, Germany	Team Men's Foil	3rd[22]

Grand Prix[]

Date	Location	Event	Position
03/13/2015	Havana, Cuba	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[23]
03/17/2017	Long Beach, California	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[24]

World Cup[]

Date	Location	Event	Position
01/16/2015	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[25]
05/01/2015	St. Petersburg, Russia	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[26]
02/05/2016	Bonn, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[27]
05/05/2017	St. Petersburg, Russia	Individual Men's Foil	1st[28]
01/19/2018	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[29]
01/25/2019	Tokyo, Japan	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[30]
03/01/2019	Cairo, Egypt	Individual Men's Foil	1st[31]
12/13/2019	Tokyo, Japan	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[32]
01/10/2020	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[33]

References[]

External links[]

• Daniele Garozzo at FIE
• Daniele Garozzo at European Fencing Confederation
• Daniele Garozzo at Olympics.com
• Daniele Garozzo at the Italian Olympic Committee (in Italian)
• Daniele Garozzo at Olympedia