Giuseppe Delfino
Italian fencer (1921–1999)
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Born | (1921-11-22)22 November 1921 Turin, Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 10 August 1999(1999-08-10) (aged 77) Turin, Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Giuseppe Delfino (22 November 1921 – 10 August 1999)[1] was an Italian fencer and Olympic champion in épée competition.
Biography
He won a gold medal in the épée individual event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.[2] He won Olympic gold medals in the épée team events in 1952, 1956 and 1960, and silver in 1964.
He also competed at the 1955 Mediterranean Games where he won silver medals in the individual and team épée events.[3]
See also
- Italian athletes with most Olympic medals
- Italian fencer multiple medallists at the Olympics
- Legends of Italian sport - Walk of Fame
References
- ^ sport-ref Archived 18 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 23 July 2010
- ^ "1960 Summer Olympics – Rome, Italy – Fencing" Archived 19 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 26 June 2008)
- ^ "Olympedia – Giuseppe Delfino". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
External links
- Giuseppe Delfino at Olympedia
- Giuseppe Delfino at the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)
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Preceded by | Flag bearer for Italy 1964 Tokyo | Succeeded by |
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Olympic Fencing Champions in Men's Individual Épée
- 1900: Ramón Fonst (CUB)
- 1904: Ramón Fonst (CUB)
- 1908: Gaston Alibert (FRA)
- 1912: Paul Anspach (BEL)
- 1920: Armand Massard (FRA)
- 1924: Charles Delporte (BEL)
- 1928: Lucien Gaudin (FRA)
- 1932: Giancarlo Cornaggia-Medici (ITA)
- 1936: Franco Riccardi (ITA)
- 1948: Luigi Cantone (ITA)
- 1952: Edoardo Mangiarotti (ITA)
- 1956: Carlo Pavesi (ITA)
- 1960: Giuseppe Delfino (ITA)
- 1964: Grigory Kriss (URS)
- 1968: Győző Kulcsár (HUN)
- 1972: Csaba Fenyvesi (HUN)
- 1976: Alexander Pusch (FRG)
- 1980: Johan Harmenberg (SWE)
- 1984: Philippe Boisse (FRA)
- 1988: Arnd Schmitt (FRG)
- 1992: Éric Srecki (FRA)
- 1996: Aleksandr Beketov (RUS)
- 2000: Pavel Kolobkov (RUS)
- 2004: Marcel Fischer (SUI)
- 2008: Matteo Tagliariol (ITA)
- 2012: Rubén Limardo (VEN)
- 2016: Park Sang-young (KOR)
- 2020: Romain Cannone (FRA)