Date of birth: 04/08/1992
Place of birth: Catania
Height x weight: 1,78 x 72
First Club: Club Scherma Acireale
Club: Fiamme Gialle
First Coach: Domenico Patti
Coach: Fabio Galli
Other sports: Football, futsal
Relationship Status: Single
Olympic Club: Yes
Olympic Games Participation:
1 (Rio 2016)
Biography
At only 18 years old, he bet on himself leaving his beloved Sicily to reach Frascati and devote himself to fencing full time. A choice that combined with talent and dedication soon paid off. Starting from a small gym in Acireale where he was forced to train in front of a mannequin, after a profitable career in the youth national teams, he entered the history of world fencing winning the Olympic foil title in Rio 2016. Brother of Enrico, a sword specialist and team silver medallist at the Brazilian Games, is engaged to Alice Volpi, also an Italian foil fencer and world champion in 2018. Ready to defend the title on the Tokyo platforms he is also determined to make up for the bitter fourth place achieved in the team competition five years ago. In Japan, he will also celebrate his 29th birthday, what better occasion to treat himself to a new Olympic joy?
Palmares
PrintOlympic Games
1° Rio (BRA) 2016 – Individuale
4° Rio (BRA) 2016 – Squadra
World Championships
1° Mosca (RUS) 2015 – Squadra
11° Mosca (RUS) 2015 – Individuale
1° Lipsia (GER) 2017 – Squadra
3° Lipsia (GER) 2017 – Individuale
1° Wuxi (CHN) 2018 – Squadra
5° Wuxi (CHN) 2018 – Individuale
3° Budapest (HUN) 2019 – Squadra
9° Budapest (HUN) 2019 – Individuale
European Championships
2° Montreux (SUI) 2015 – Individuale
5° Montreux (SUI) 2015 – Squadra
2° Torun (POL) 2016 – Squadra
12°Torun (POL) 2016 – Individuale
1° Tbilisi (GEO) 2017 – Individuale
3° Tbilisi (GEO) 2017 – Squadra
2° Novi Sad (SRB) 2018 – Individuale
2° Novi Sad (SRB) 2018 – Squadra
2° Dusseldorf (GER) 2019 – Individuale
3° Dusseldorf (GER) 2019 – Squadra
World Cup
2° 2015-2016
2° 2016-2017
7° 2017-2018
4° 2018-2019
6° 2019-2020