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Giovanna Trillini
Giovanna Trillini
	Giovanna Trillini in 2015
Personal information
Born	17 May 1970 (age 54); Jesi, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	69 kg (152 lb)
Sport
Country	Italy
Weapon	foil
Hand	right-handed
Club	G.S. Forestale/CS Jesi
Medal record
Olympic Games
World Championships
European Championships
Mediterranean Games
Universiade

Giovanna Trillini (born 17 May 1970 in Jesi) is an Italian foil fencer. She is a 4-time Olympic champion (3 times in the team event, 1 time individual) and won an additional silver and two bronze medals in individual Olympic competitions.^[1]^[2]

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.^[3]
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^[4]^[5]^[6] and Giovanni, born on 1 August 2009.^[7]^[8]

Achievements

Olympic Games

Foil individual (1992) and Foil team (1992, 1996, 2000)
Foil individual (2004)
Foil individual (1996, 2000) and Foil team (2008)

World Championships

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)

European Championships

Foil team (1999, 2000)
Foil individual (2001)
Foil individual (1994) and Foil team (1998, 2007)

Mediterranean Games

Foil individual (1997)^[9]
Foil individual (1991, 1993)^[9]

Fencing World Cup

Foil (1991, 1994, 1995, 1998)

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

References

^ "Olympics Statistics: Giovanna Trillini". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
^ "Giovanna Trillini". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
^ "La Biografia" [Biography]. Giovanna Trillini Official Web site (in Italian). Retrieved 30 September 2013.
^ "UN FIOCCO ROSA TRA LE MEDAGLIE D'ORO". Giovanna Trillini Official Web site (in Italian). Retrieved 30 September 2013.
^ "SCHERMA, GIOVANNA TRILLINI MAMMA: E' NATA CLAUDIA" [Fencing, Giovanna Trillini is a mom]. La Repubblica (in Italian). 13 September 2005. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
^ "GIOVANNA TRILLINI E' DIVENTATA MAMMA: E' NATA CLAUDIA" [Giovanna Trillini is a mom]. Federazione Italiana Scherma (in Italian). Archived from the original on 30 September 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
^ "Scherma: nato figlio Trillini" [Fencing, born Trillini's son]. Tuttosport (in Italian). Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
^ Vito Graffeo (1 August 2009). "La Trillini è mamma" [Trillini is a mom]. Sportlive (in Italian). Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Olympedia – Giovanna Trillini". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 25 April 2023.

External links

Giovanna Trillini at the International Fencing Federation
Giovanna Trillini at the European Fencing Confederation
Giovanna Trillini at Olympics.com
Giovanna Trillini at Olympedia
Giovanna Trillini at the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)
Giovanna Trillini at Eurofencing.info
Giovanna Trillini at FIE
Official website (in Italian)
Profile at federscherma.it (in Italian)

Awards
Preceded by Annarita Sidoti	Italian Sportswoman of the Year 1991-1992	Succeeded by Stefania Belmondo
Summer Olympics
Preceded by Giuseppe Abbagnale	Flag bearer for Italy 1996 Atlanta	Succeeded by Carlton Myers