Rossella Fiamingo

{{Infobox fencer

| name = Rossella Fiamingo

| image = Rossella Fiamingo Challenge International de Saint-Maur 2013 n01.jpg

| caption = Fiamingo in 2013

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1991|7|14|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Catania, Italy

| weapon = Épée

| hand = left-handed

| height = 1.68 m

| weight = 56 kg

| natlcoach = Sandro Cuomo

| club = AS Methodos - GS Forestale

| perscoach = Gianni Sperlinga

| country = Italy

| fieranking = [https://fie.org/athletes/19604 current ranking]

| show-medals = yes

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalCountry|{{ITA}}}}

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Rossella Fiamingo (born 14 July 1991) is an Italian left-handed épée fencer and two-time individual world champion.{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/athletes/19604 |access-date=9 May 2021}} A three-time Olympian, Fiamingo is a 2021 and 2024 team Olympic bronze and Gold, respectively, medalist and 2016 individual Olympic silver medalist.

She is engaged to the Olympic gold medal swimmer Gregorio Paltrinieri.{{cite web |url=https://taketonews.com/european-swimming-fiamingo-and-the-first-time-live-by-paltrinieri-i-was-much-more-tense-than-him/ |title=European swimming, Fiamingo and the first time live by Paltrinieri: 'I was much more tense than him ...' |website=taketonews.com |date=12 August 2022 |access-date=16 December 2022}}

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.olimpiazzurra.com/2012/06/intervista-esclusiva-a-rossella-fiamingo/ |title=Intervista esclusiva a Rossella Fiamingo |author=Francesco Drago |publisher=OlimpiAzzura |date=11 June 2012 |language=Italian}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.gazzetta.it/Sport_Vari/Altri_Sport/Scherma/16-07-2011/moellhausen-che-peccato-802055886352.shtml |title=Moellhausen che peccato. La spada è di bronzo |publisher=Gasport |date=16 July 2011 |language=Italian}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/athletes/71b50b9f-116f-4771-9d75-3cb3477d2ffc |title=Rossella Fiamingo |work=BBC Sport |accessdate=11 September 2012}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.panorama.it/sport/altri-sport/fiamingo-scherma-spada-mondiali-kazan/ |title=Rossella Fiamingo: brava, bella e semplice |author=Teobaldo Semoli |work=Panorama |date=29 July 2014 |language=Italian}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.bda.unict.it/Pagina/It/Notizie_1/0/2014/08/27/5750_.aspx |title=Medaglie per la campionessa del mondo di spada Fiamingo e l'hockeista Mirabella |work=Bolletino d'Ateneo |publisher=Università degli Studi di Catania |date=27 August 2014 |language=Italian}}

She won the silver medal in the women's épée event at the 2022 European Fencing Championships held in Antalya, Turkey.{{Cite news |last=Lloyd |first=Owen |date=18 June 2022 |title=Kharkova and Garozzo prevail in European Fencing Championships |work=InsideTheGames.biz |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1124632/european-fencing-championships |access-date=19 June 2022}} She won one of the bronze medals in the women's épée event at the 2022 World Fencing Championships held in Cairo, Egypt.{{Cite news |last=Lloyd |first=Owen |date=18 July 2022 |title=Szilágyi and Song take historic wins at Fencing World Championships |work=InsideTheGames.biz |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1125861/fencing-world-championships-day-one |access-date=18 July 2022}}

Medal record

=Olympic Games=

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!Year

! style="width:17em" |Location

! style="width:12em" |Event

!Position

2016

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|BRA}} Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

|Individual Women's Épée

| bgcolor="silver" |2nd{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2016/241?tab=results |access-date=9 May 2021}}

2021

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|JPN}} Tokyo, Japan

|Team Women's Épée

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2021/247 |access-date=29 July 2022}}

2024

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|FRA}} Paris, France

|Team Women's Épée

| bgcolor="gold" |1st

=World Championship=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

!Year

! style="width:17em" |Location

! style="width:12em" |Event

!Position

2011

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|ITA}} Catania, Italy

|Team Women's Épée

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2011/247?tab=results |access-date=9 May 2021}}

2014

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|RUS}} Kazan, Russia

|Individual Women's Épée

| bgcolor="gold" |1st{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2014/241?tab=results |access-date=9 May 2021}}

2014

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|RUS}} Kazan, Russia

|Team Women's Épée

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2014/247?tab=results |access-date=9 May 2021}}

2015

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|RUS}} Moscow, Russia

|Individual Women's Épée

| bgcolor="gold" |1st{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2015/241?tab=results |access-date=9 May 2021}}

2019

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|HUN}} Budapest, Hungary

|Team Women's Épée

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2019/247?tab=results |access-date=9 May 2021}}

2022

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|EGY}} Cairo, Egypt

|Individual Women's Épée

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2022/241 |access-date=18 July 2022}}

2022

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|EGY}} Cairo, Egypt

|Team Women's Épée

| bgcolor="silver" |2nd{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2022/247 |access-date=4 August 2022}}

=European Championship=

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!Year

! style="width:17em" |Location

! style="width:12em" |Event

!Position

2014

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|FRA}} Strasbourg, France

|Team Women's Épée

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2014/744?tab=results |access-date=10 May 2021}}

rowspan="1" |2015

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|SUI}} Montreux, Switzerland

|Individual Women's Épée

| bgcolor="silver" |2nd{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2015/738?tab=results |access-date=10 May 2021}}

rowspan="1" |2015

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|SUI}} Montreux, Switzerland

|Team Women's Épée

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2015/744?tab=results |access-date=10 May 2021}}

rowspan="1" |2019

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|GER}} Düsseldorf, Germany

|Team Women's Épée

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2019/744?tab=results |access-date=10 May 2021}}

rowspan="1" |2022

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|TUR}} Antalya, Turkey

|Individual Women's Épée

| bgcolor="silver" |2nd{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2022/738 |access-date=18 July 2022}}

rowspan="1" |2022

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|TUR}} Antalya, Turkey

|Team Women's Épée

| bgcolor="silver" |2nd{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2022/744 |access-date=18 July 2022}}

=Grand Prix=

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!Date

! style="width:17em" |Location

! style="width:12em" |Event

!Position

2012-05-19

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|CUB}} Havana, Cuba

|Individual Women's Épée

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2012/95?tab=results |access-date=9 May 2021}}

2014-02-01

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|HUN}} Budapest, Hungary

|Individual Women's Épée

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2014/79?tab=results |access-date=9 May 2021}}

2017-03-24

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|HUN}} Budapest, Hungary

|Individual Women's Épée

| bgcolor="gold" |1st{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2017/449?tab=results |access-date=9 May 2021}}

=World Cup=

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!Date

! style="width:17em" |Location

! style="width:12em" |Event

!Position

2011-02-12

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|QAT}} Doha, Qatar

|Individual Women's Épée

| bgcolor="silver" |2nd{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2011/80?tab=results |access-date=9 May 2021}}

2012-02-11

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|QAT}} Doha, Qatar

|Individual Women's Épée

| bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2012/80?tab=results |access-date=9 May 2021}}

2012-05-04

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|BRA}} Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

|Individual Women's Épée

| bgcolor="gold" |1st{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2012/451?tab=results |access-date=9 May 2021}}

2014-02-28

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|FRA}} Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France

|Individual Women's Épée

| bgcolor="silver" |2nd{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2014/85?tab=results |access-date=9 May 2021}}

2019-03-22

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|CHN}} Chengdu, China

|Individual Women's Épée

| bgcolor="silver" |2nd{{Cite web |title=The International Fencing Federation |url=https://fie.org/competitions/2019/92?tab=results |access-date=9 May 2021}}