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Giovanna Trillini
Giovanna Trillini in 2015
Personal information
Born	(1970-05-17) 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 4 (1 individual) 1 (1 individual) 3 (2 individual) World Championships 9 (2 individual) 5 (2 individual) 5 (4 individual) European Championships 2 (0 individual) 1 (1 individual) 3 (1 individual) Mediterranean Games 1 (1 individual) 2 (2 individual) 0 (0 individual) Universiade 1 (1 individual) 0 (0 individual) 2 (2 individual)

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.

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.
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 and Giovanni, born on 1 August 2009.

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)
• Foil individual (1991, 1993)

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

See also

• Italian sportswomen multiple medalists at Olympics and World Championships
• Italy national fencing team – Multiple medallist
• List of multiple Summer Olympic medalists

References

1. "Olympics Statistics: Giovanna Trillini". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
2. "Giovanna Trillini". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
3. "La Biografia" [Biography]. Giovanna Trillini Official Web site (in Italian). Retrieved 30 September 2013.
4. "UN FIOCCO ROSA TRA LE MEDAGLIE D'ORO". Giovanna Trillini Official Web site (in Italian). Retrieved 30 September 2013.
5. "SCHERMA, GIOVANNA TRILLINI MAMMA: E' NATA CLAUDIA" [Fencing, Giovanna Trillini is a mom]. La Repubblica (in Italian). 13 September 2005. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
6. "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.
7. "Scherma: nato figlio Trillini" [Fencing, born Trillini's son]. Tuttosport (in Italian). Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
8. 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.
9. ^ "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 the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)
• Giovanna Trillini at Olympedia
• Giovanna Trillini at Eurofencing.info
• Giovanna Trillini at FIE
• Official website (in Italian)
• Profile at federscherma.it (in Italian)

Awards
Preceded byAnnarita Sidoti	Italian Sportswoman of the Year 1991-1992	Succeeded byStefania Belmondo
Summer Olympics
Preceded byGiuseppe Abbagnale	Flag bearer for Italy 1996 Atlanta	Succeeded byCarlton Myers

• 1970 births
• Living people
• People from Jesi
• University of Urbino alumni
• Italian female fencers
• Fencers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
• Fencers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Fencers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
• Fencers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
• Fencers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• Olympic fencers for Italy
• Olympic gold medalists for Italy
• Olympic silver medalists for Italy
• Olympic bronze medalists for Italy
• Olympic medalists in fencing
• Fencers of Gruppo Sportivo Forestale
• Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
• Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
• Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
• Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• Summer World University Games medalists in fencing
• FISU World University Games gold medalists for Italy
• FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Italy
• Medalists at the 1989 Summer Universiade
• Medalists at the 1991 Summer Universiade
• Medalists at the 1993 Summer Universiade
• Sportspeople from the Province of Ancona
• 20th-century Italian women
• 21st-century Italian sportswomen
• Fencers at the 1991 Mediterranean Games
• Fencers at the 1993 Mediterranean Games
• Fencers at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
• Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy
• Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy
• Mediterranean Games medalists in fencing