Rossella Gregorio

Rossella Gregorio (born 30 August 1990) is an Italian sabre fencer, bronze medallist in the 2014 European Fencing Championships.

Career
Gregorio discovered fencing thanks to family friends who encouraged her parents to let her try the sport. She first trained at CS Salerno, where she was coached by Antonio Serra, before joining Frascati Scherma.

Gregorio won the 2009 Junior European Championship in Odense. A year later she became Junior Italian champion. 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.

In the 2013–14 season Gregorio climbed her first World Cup podium with a bronze medal in Bolzano, 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.

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.

References

External links

Profile at the European Fencing Confederation
Profile at the Italian Fencing Federation

Category:1990 births
Category:Living people
Category:Italian female fencers
Category:Italian sabre fencers
Category:People from Salerno
Category:Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic fencers of Italy