Edoardo Mangiarotti

Edoardo Mangiarotti

Personal information
Nationality	Italian
Born	(1919-04-07)7 April 1919 Renate, Italy
Died	25 May 2012(2012-05-25) (aged 93) Milan, Italy
Sport
Sport	Fencing
Medal record Men's fencing Olympic Games 1936 Berlin Team épée 1952 Helsinki Individual épée 1952 Helsinki Team épée 1956 Melbourne Team foil 1956 Melbourne Team épée 1960 Rome Team épée 1948 London Team foil 1948 London Team épée 1952 Helsinki Individual foil 1952 Helsinki Team foil 1960 Rome Team foil 1948 London Individual épée 1956 Melbourne Individual épée World Championships Paris 1937 Team épée Cairo 1949 Team épée Cairo 1949 Team foil Monte Carlo 1950 Team épée Monte Carlo 1950 Team foil Stockholm 1951 Individual épée Stockholm 1951 Team foil Brussels 1953 Team épée Luxembourg 1954 Individual épée Luxembourg 1954 Team épée Luxembourg 1954 Team foil Rome 1955 Team épée Rome 1955 Team foil Piešťany 1938 Individual épée Stockholm 1951 Team épée Stockholm 1951 Individual foil Stockholm 1951 Team foil Brussels 1953 Individual foil Brussels 1953 Team foil Luxembourg 1954 Individual foil Philadelphia 1958 Individual épée Piešťany 1938 Team épée Lisbon 1947 Individual foil Lisbon 1947 Team épée Cairo 1949 Individual foil Philadelphia 1958 Team foil

Edoardo Mangiarotti (Italian pronunciation: [edoˈardo mandʒaˈrɔtti]; April 7, 1919 – May 25, 2012) was an Italian fencer. He won a total of 19 Olympic titles and World championships, more than any other fencer in the history of the sport. His Olympic medals include one individual gold, five team golds, five silver, and two bronze medals from 1936 to 1960.

Fencing is one of the original sports from the 1896 Games. Electronic scoring equipment was introduced in 1936 in the épée events when Mangiarotti won a gold medal with the other members of the Italian team. He consistently won each épée event and was second only to expert Christian d'Oriola in the foil events. On a points for and against basis in international competition, Mangiarotti was the most successful fencer in history.

Edoardo Mangiarotti was born into a famous fencing family on April 7, 1919. Giuseppe Mangiarotti, a Milanese fencing master and 17 times national épée champion, planned his son’s championship career and molded him into an awkward opponent by converting a natural right-hander to a left-hander. Dario Mangiarotti, older brother of the great Edoardo, won the world title in Cairo in 1949 and a gold and two silver in the Olympics.

Edoardo was a national junior foil champion at the age of 11. He won a place in the Italian senior team at age 16 and competed in the 1935 world championships. The following year young Mangiarotti rewarded his father for his conscientious coaching with an Olympic team épée gold medal in the Olympics.

In Paris, 1937, Edoardo Mangiarotti won a gold medal in a World Championships team event. The next year in Czechoslovakia he finished second in the individual épée, won a bronze in the team épée and a gold in team foil.

Even at such an early stage in his career, the young Mangiarotti showed the strong determination and personality that was to separate him from other international competitors in both foil and épée in the 1950s. At the 1948 London Olympics, Mangiarotti finished with a bronze medal in the individual épée and two team silver medals. Dario Mangiarotti could not compete because of an injury.

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