Daniele GAROZZO

At just 16 years old, he won the Cadet World Championships in Acireale, the town where he grew up and first took up fencing. This result propelled him to the forefront as one of Italy’s rising stars in foil fencing.

He won the gold medal at the World Championships in Moscow in the foil fencing team and achieved excellent results in the World and European Cups. This was the year he definitively joined the ranks of the world’s best fencers.

At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, he won gold in the individual foil event, defeating Alexander Massialas of the USA in the final.

At the Tokyo Olympics, he won the silver medal in the individual foil event, and the following year, at the World Championships, he took the top spot on the podium in the team foil event. He retired from competitive competition in 2024 with a haul of 2 Olympic medals, 6 World and 10 European Championship medals.