Rossella Gregorio

{{Infobox fencer

| name = Rossella Gregorio

| image = Rossella Gregorio 2014-15 Orleans WC teams t144259.jpg

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| nationality = Italian

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1990|8|30|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Salerno, Campania

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| weapon = Sabre

| hand = left-handed

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| club = CS Carabinieri

| natlcoach = Giovanni Sirovich

| headcoach = Lucio Landi

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| fieranking = [https://fie.org/athletes/15098 current ranking]

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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.{{Cite web |title=Fencing GREGORIO Rossella |url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/fencing/athlete-profile-n1312479-gregorio-rossella.htm |url-status=dead |access-date=2021-09-22 |work=Tokyo 2020 Olympics |publisher=Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games |language=en-us |archive-date=4 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210804174327/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/fencing/athlete-profile-n1312479-gregorio-rossella.htm}}

Career

Gregorio discovered fencing thanks to family friends who encouraged her parents to let her try the sport.{{cite web |url=http://www.solosalerno.it/2013/09/12/la-sciabolatrice-salernitana-rossella-gregorio-che-emozione-il-bronzo-ai-mondiali-di-budapest/ |title=La sciabolatrice salernitana Rossella Gregorio: "Che emozione partecipare ai Mondiali di Budapest!" |author=Maria Roberta Fortunato |work=solosalerno.it |date=12 September 2013 |language=it}} She first trained at CS Salerno, where she was coached by Antonio Serra,{{cite web |url=http://ricerca.gelocal.it/lacittadisalerno/archivio/lacittadisalerno/2009/11/25/36ws62511_A4.txt.html |title=Una festa per Rossella Gregorio "Grazie a tutti, sono felice" |author=Donatella Ferrigno |date=25 November 2009 |language=it}} before joining Frascati Scherma.

Gregorio won the 2009 Junior European Championship in Odense. A year later she became Junior Italian champion.{{cite web |url=http://www.vocesport.com/portal/?p=33055 |title=Scherma, Rossella Gregorio si laurea Campionessa Italiana Giovani |author=Antonio Scafuro |work=Voce Sport |date=16 March 2010 |language=it |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826114750/http://www.vocesport.com/portal/?p=33055 |archivedate=26 August 2014 |df=}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.repubblica.it/sport/vari/2013/06/20/news/scherma_europei_sciabola_bronzo_donne-61515911/ |title=Scherma, Europei: azzurre bronzo nella sciabola. Battuta la Polonia |work=La Repubblica |date=20 June 2013 |language=it}}

In the 2013–14 season Gregorio climbed her first World Cup podium with a bronze medal in Bolzano,{{cite web |url=http://pianetascherma.com/2014/03/01/sciabola-femminile-bolzano-rossella-gregorio/ |title=La prima volta di Rossella |author=Gabriele Lippi |work=Pianeta Scherma |date=1 March 2014 |language=it}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.gazzetta.it/Sport-Vari/Scherma/09-06-2014/scherma-europei-strasburgo-sciabola-argento-rossella-gregorio-80880828814.shtml |title=Scherma, Europei a Strasburgo: sciabola di bronzo per la Gregorio |author=Marisa Poli |newspaper=La Gazzetta dello Sport |date=9 June 2014 |language=it}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://pianetascherma.com/2014/11/22/sciabola-donne-orleans-coppa-del-mondo/ |title=Formidables! |author=Alessandro Gennari |work=Pianeta Scherma |date=22 November 2014 |language=it}}

She won the silver medal in the women's sabre event at the 2022 European Fencing Championships held in Antalya, Turkey.{{Cite news |last=Lloyd |first=Owen |date=19 June 2022 |title=Borel and Bashta bag gold medals at European Fencing Championships |work=InsideTheGames.biz |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1124674/fencing-european-championships |access-date=19 June 2022}}

References

External links

{{FIE}}
{{EFC|00002563}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20150924042009/http://www.eurofencing.info/athletes/biography/rossella-gregorio archive])
{{Olympics.com|rossella-gregorio}}
{{Olympedia}}
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[https://federscherma.it/atleta/rossella-gregorio/ Rossella Gregorio] at the Federazione Italiana Scherma ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140714221818/http://www.federscherma.it/la-scherma/curricula-atleti/sciabola-femminile/12495-gregorio-rossella/file archive]) {{in lang|it}}

Category:1990 births

Category:Living people

Category:Italian female sabre fencers

Category:Sportspeople from Salerno

Category:Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Category:Olympic fencers for Italy

Category:Fencers of Centro Sportivo Carabinieri

Category:Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Category:21st-century Italian sportswomen

Category:Fencers at the 2023 European Games

Category:European Games silver medalists for Italy

Category:European Games medalists in fencing