Rossella Gregorio

Rossella Gregorio
Personal information
Born	(1990-08-30) 30 August 1990 (age 34) Salerno, Campania
Nationality	Italian
Sport
Weapon	Sabre
Hand	left-handed
National coach	Giovanni Sirovich
Club	CS Carabinieri
Head coach	Lucio Landi
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Women's sabre Representing  Italy World Championships 2017 Leipzig Team European Games 2023 Kraków–Małopolska Team European Championships 2017 Tbilisi Team 2017 Tbilisi Individual 2022 Antalya Individual 2022 Antalya Team 2023 Kraków Team 2013 Zagreb Team 2014 Strasbourg Individual 2015 Montreux Individual

Rossella Gregorio (born 30 August 1990) is an Italian sabre fencer, bronze medallist in the 2014 European Fencing Championships. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in sabre.^[1]

Career

Gregorio discovered fencing thanks to family friends who encouraged her parents to let her try the sport.^[2] She first trained at CS Salerno, where she was coached by Antonio Serra,^[3] before joining Frascati Scherma.

Gregorio won the 2009 Junior European Championship in Odense. A year later she became Junior Italian champion.^[4] She joined the national team for the 2013 European Championships in Zagreb. She was eliminated in the first round by Germany's Alexandra Bujdoso. In the team event, Italy defeated France, but ceded against Russia in the semi-finals. They edged out Poland in the small final to take the bronze medal, Gregorio's first medal in a senior international event.^[5]

In the 2013–14 season Gregorio climbed her first World Cup podium with a bronze medal in Bolzano,^[6] followed by another bronze in Antalya. At the European Championships in Strasburg she reached the semi-finals, where she was stopped by World No.1 Olga Kharlan, and came away with a bronze medal.^[7]

In the 2014–15 season Gregorio reached the quarter-finals in the first World Cup event held in Cancún and proceeded to earn a silver medal in Orléans after being defeated by Sofiya Velikaya in the final.^[8]

She won the silver medal in the women's sabre event at the 2022 European Fencing Championships held in Antalya, Turkey.^[9]

References

1. "Fencing GREGORIO Rossella". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 4 August 2021. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
2. Maria Roberta Fortunato (12 September 2013). "La sciabolatrice salernitana Rossella Gregorio: "Che emozione partecipare ai Mondiali di Budapest!"". solosalerno.it (in Italian).
3. Donatella Ferrigno (25 November 2009). "Una festa per Rossella Gregorio "Grazie a tutti, sono felice"" (in Italian).
4. Antonio Scafuro (16 March 2010). "Scherma, Rossella Gregorio si laurea Campionessa Italiana Giovani". Voce Sport (in Italian). Archived from the original on 26 August 2014.
5. "Scherma, Europei: azzurre bronzo nella sciabola. Battuta la Polonia". La Repubblica (in Italian). 20 June 2013.
6. Gabriele Lippi (1 March 2014). "La prima volta di Rossella". Pianeta Scherma (in Italian).
7. Marisa Poli (9 June 2014). "Scherma, Europei a Strasburgo: sciabola di bronzo per la Gregorio". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian).
8. Alessandro Gennari (22 November 2014). "Formidables!". Pianeta Scherma (in Italian).
9. Lloyd, Owen (19 June 2022). "Borel and Bashta bag gold medals at European Fencing Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 19 June 2022.

External links

• Rossella Gregorio at the International Fencing Federation
• Rossella Gregorio at the European Fencing Confederation (archive)
• Rossella Gregorio at Olympics.com
• Rossella Gregorio at Olympedia (archive)
• Rossella Gregorio at the Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (in Italian)
• Rossella Gregorio at the Federazione Italiana Scherma (archive) (in Italian)