Rossella Fiamingo

Rossella Fiamingo
Personal information
Born	(1991-07-14) 14 July 1991 (age 30) Catania, Italy
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
Country	Italy
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	Épée
Hand	left-handed
National coach	Sandro Cuomo
Club	GS Forestale
Personal coach	Gianni Sperlinga
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Individual 2020 Tokyo Team épée World Championships 2014 Kazan Individual 2015 Moscow Individual 2011 Catania Team 2014 Kazan Team 2019 Budapest Team European Championships 2015 Montreux Individual 2014 Strasbourg Team 2015 Montreux Team 2019 Düsseldorf Team

Rossella Fiamingo (born 14 July 1991) is an Italian left-handed épée fencer, two-time individual world champion, and 2016 individual Olympic silver medalist.^[1]

Career[]

Fiamingo did ballet and rhythmic gymnastics as a child. She took up fencing when she was seven at the instigation of her father, who already drove her brother to a nearby fencing school, AS Methodos Catania.^[2] She was taught by Gianni Sperlinga, who remains her personal coach as of today. In 2004, she was selected into the cadet Italian national team. She won the 2007 Cadet European Championships in Novi Sad, then the 2008 Cadet World Championships at home, in Acireale. She earned both the individual and team gold medals in 2009 and 2010 at the Junior European Championships, then she won the 2010 European U23 Championships in Gdańsk.

Fiamingo joined the national senior team in the 2010–11 season. At the 2011 European Championships in Sheffield she reached the quarter-finals, where she was defeated by teammate Nathalie Moellhausen.^[3] The next season she climbed her first World Cup podium with a bronze medal in Doha, followed by a gold medal in Rio de Janeiro. Qualified to the 2012 Summer Olympics with the team, she was defeated 14–15 in the quarter-finals of the individual event by China's Sun Yujie.^[4] In the team event, Italy were defeated in the first round by the United States, then lost to Romania in the ranking matches and finished seventh.

In the 2013–14 season Fiamingo won the World Championships, defeating along the way Olympic champions Yana Shemyakina and Britta Heidemann.^[5] Rossella Fiamingo (ITA) won again women's individual épée at the 2015 world championships in Moscow to become the first woman to win back-to-back world titles in this event since Laura Flessel-Colovic (FRA) in 1998–1999. Fiamingo joined Flessel-Colovic (1998 and 1999) and Mariann Horvath (HUN, 1991 and 1992) as the only women with multiple world titles in this event. This was the third gold medal for Italy in this event, equalling France and Hungary on most wins. She in the 2014–2015 season also won the world cup. Fiamingo has a degree in pianoforte and studies nutrition at the University of Catania.^[6]

Medal Record[]

Olympic Games[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Individual Women's Épée	2nd[7]

World Championship[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2011	Catania, Italy	Team Women's Épée	3rd[8]
2014	Kazan, Russia	Individual Women's Épée	1st[9]
2014	Kazan, Russia	Team Women's Épée	3rd[10]
2015	Moscow, Russia	Individual Women's Épée	1st[11]
2019	Budapest, Hungary	Team Women's Épée	3rd[12]

European Championship[]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2014	Strasbourg, France	Team Women's Épée	3rd[13]
2015	Montreux, Switzerland	Individual Women's Épée	2nd[14]
2015	Montreux, Switzerland	Team Women's Épée	3rd[15]
2019	Düsseldorf, Germany	Team Women's Épée	3rd[16]

Grand Prix[]

Date	Location	Event	Position
05/19/2012	Havana, Cuba	Individual Women's Épée	3rd[17]
02/01/2014	Budapest, Hungary	Individual Women's Épée	3rd[18]
03/24/2017	Budapest, Hungary	Individual Women's Épée	1st[19]

World Cup[]

Date	Location	Event	Position
02/12/2011	Doha, Qatar	Individual Women's Épée	2nd[20]
02/11/2012	Doha, Qatar	Individual Women's Épée	3rd[21]
05/04/2012	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Individual Women's Épée	1st[22]
02/28/2014	Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France	Individual Women's Épée	2nd[23]
03/22/2019	Chengdu, China	Individual Women's Épée	2nd[24]

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rossella Fiamingo.

• Rossella Fiamingo at the International Fencing Federation
• Rossella Fiamingo at the International Olympic Committee
• Profile at the European Fencing Confederation