Luca Curatoli

Luca Curatoli
Personal information
Born	(1994-07-25) 25 July 1994 (age 27) Naples, Italy
Sport
Country	Italy
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	Sabre
Hand	left-handed
National coach	Giovanni Sirovich
Club	Fiamme Oro[1] Circolo Posillipo
Head coach	Leonardo Caserta
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Team World Championships 2015 Moscow Team 2018 Wuxi Team 2017 Leipzig Team 2019 Budapest Individual 2019 Budapest Team European Championships 2015 Montreux Team 2016 Toruń Team 2017 Tbilisi Team 2018 Novi Sad Team 2017 Tbilisi Individual 2019 Düsseldorf Team

Luca Curatoli (born 25 July 1994) is an Italian left-handed sabre fencer, 2015 team world champion, and 2021 team Olympic silver medalist.^[2]

Career[]

Curatoli is the half-brother of 1995 sabre world champion Raffaello Caserta and of Leonardo Caserta, who coaches him at Circolo Posillipo.^[3] In 2014 he won the gold medal at the Junior European Championships in Jerusalem and took a double gold haul at the Junior World Championships in Plovdiv.^[4]

In the 2014-15 season he climbed his first World Cup podium with a bronze medal in Warsaw. These results had him selected into the Italian senior national team, with whom he was silver medallist at the 2015 European Championships.^[5] At the 2015 World Fencing Championships, his first participation in this type of event, he achieved the best Italian performance in men's sabre by reaching the table of 16, where he was defeated by reigning Olympic champion Áron Szilágyi.^[6] In the team event, Italy prevailed successively over the Czech Republic, Mexico, Romania and France to reach the final, where they met host Russia. Curatoli was chosen to open the match against Nikolay Kovalev and hold his stead in his following relays, helping his team to win the gold medal. ^[7]

Medal Record[]

Olympic Games[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2021	Tokyo, Japan	Team Men's Sabre	2nd[8]

World Championship[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2015	Moscow, Russia	Team Men's Sabre	1st[9]
2017	Leipzig, Germany	Team Men's Sabre	3rd[10]
2018	Wuxi, China	Team Men's Sabre	2nd[11]
2019	Budapest, Hungary	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd[12]
2019	Budapest, Hungary	Team Men's Sabre	3rd[13]

European Championship[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2015	Montreux, Switzerland	Team Men's Sabre	2nd[14]
2016	Toruń, Poland	Team Men's Sabre	2nd[15]
2017	Tbilisi, Georgia	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd[16]
2017	Tbilisi, Georgia	Team Men's Sabre	2nd[17]
2018	Novi Sad, Serbia	Team Men's Sabre	2nd[18]
2019	Düsseldorf, Germany	Team Men's Sabre	3rd[19]

Grand Prix[]

Date	Location	Event	Position
03/31/2017	Seoul, South Korea	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd[20]
06/02/2017	Moscow, Russia	Individual Men's Sabre	1st[21]
05/11/2018	Moscow, Russia	Individual Men's Sabre	2nd[22]
05/24/2019	Moscow, Russia	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd[23]
01/10/2020	Montreal, Canada	Individual Men's Sabre	2nd[24]
11/11/2021	Orléans, France	Individual Men's Sabre	2nd[25]

World Cup[]

Date	Location	Event	Position
02/20/2015	Warsaw, Poland	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd[26]
05/13/2016	Madrid, Spain	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd[27]
11/04/2016	Dakar, Senegal	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd[28]
02/02/2018	Padua, Italy	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd[29]
02/01/2019	Warsaw, Poland	Individual Men's Sabre	2nd[30]
03/08/2019	Padua, Italy	Individual Men's Sabre	1st[31]
02/21/2020	Warsaw, Poland	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd[32]

References[]

External links[]

• Luca Curatoli at FIE
• Luca Curatoli at European Fencing Confederation
• Luca Curatoli at Olympedia
• (in Italian) Luca Curatoli at the Italian Fencing Federation