Daniele Garozzo

Daniele Garozzo
Personal information
Born	(1992-08-04) 4 August 1992 (age 32) Acireale, Italy
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Sport
Country	Italy
Weapon	Foil
Hand	right-handed
National coach	Andrea Cipressa
Club	GS Fiamme Gialle[1]
Head coach	Fabio Galli
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Men's foil Representing  Italy Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Individual 2020 Tokyo Individual World Championships 2015 Moscow Team 2017 Leipzig Team 2018 Wuxi Team 2022 Cairo Team 2017 Leipzig Individual 2019 Budapest Team European Games 2023 Kraków–Małopolska Team European Championships 2017 Tbilisi Individual 2022 Antalya Individual 2022 Antalya Team 2023 Kraków Team 2015 Montreux Individual 2016 Toruń Team 2018 Novi Sad Individual 2018 Novi Sad Team 2019 Düsseldorf Individual 2017 Tbilisi Team 2019 Düsseldorf Team

Daniele Garozzo ([daˈnjɛːle ɡaˈrɔttso]; born 4 August 1992) is an Italian right-handed foil fencer.^[2]

Garozzo is a 2022 team European champion, two-time individual European champion, and four-time team world champion.

A two-time Olympian, Garozzo is a 2021 individual Olympic silver medalist and 2016 individual Olympic champion.

He is the younger brother of Italian épée fencer Enrico Garozzo.^[3]

Garozzo won the 2008 Cadet World Championships at home in Acireale, then took a silver medal in the 2011 and 2012 Junior World Championships. In the 2013 Summer Universiade he was defeated in the semifinals by Russia's Aleksey Cheremisinov and came away with a bronze medal. In the 2014–15 season he climbed his first World Cup podium with a silver medal in the Challenge International de Paris.^[4] He earned a silver medal at the 2015 European Championships after being defeated in the final by teammate Andrea Cassarà.

Ranked number 11 in the world, Garozzo was the surprise winner of the gold medal in the Men's Individual Foil at the 2016 Summer Olympics, beating the American world number 1 Alexander Massialas in the final; his victory raised his world ranking to number 2.^[5][6] In the same event at the next Olympics in 2021, he was defeated by Cheung Ka Long from Hong Kong with a score of 15-11, claiming his first Olympic silver medal.^[7]

In June 2022, Garozzo won the gold medal in the men's foil event at the 2022 European Fencing Championships held in Antalya, Turkey.^[8][9]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Individual Men's Foil	1st[10]
2021	Tokyo, Japan	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[11]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2015	Moscow, Russia	Team Men's Foil	1st[12]
2017	Leipzig, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[13]
2017	Leipzig, Germany	Team Men's Foil	1st[14]
2018	Wuxi, China	Team Men's Foil	1st[15]
2019	Budapest, Hungary	Team Men's Foil	3rd[16]
2022	Cairo, Egypt	Team Men's Foil	1st[17]

Year	Location	Event	Position
2015	Montreux, Switzerland	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[18]
2016	Toruń, Poland	Team Men's Foil	2nd[19]
2017	Tbilisi, Georgia	Individual Men's Foil	1st[20]
2017	Tbilisi, Georgia	Team Men's Foil	3rd[21]
2018	Novi Sad, Serbia	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[22]
2018	Novi Sad, Serbia	Team Men's Foil	2nd[23]
2019	Düsseldorf, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[24]
2019	Düsseldorf, Germany	Team Men's Foil	3rd[25]
2022	Antalya, Turkey	Individual Men's Foil	1st[26]
2022	Antalya, Turkey	Team Men's Foil	1st[27]

Date	Location	Event	Position
2015-03-13	Havana, Cuba	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[28]
2017-03-17	Long Beach, California	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[29]

Date	Location	Event	Position
2015-01-16	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[30]
2015-05-01	St. Petersburg, Russia	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[31]
2016-02-05	Bonn, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[32]
2017-05-05	St. Petersburg, Russia	Individual Men's Foil	1st[33]
2018-01-19	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[34]
2019-01-25	Tokyo, Japan	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[35]
2019-03-01	Cairo, Egypt	Individual Men's Foil	1st[36]
2019-12-13	Tokyo, Japan	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[37]
2020-01-10	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[38]
2022-04-29	Plovdiv, Bulgaria	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[39]

• Daniele Garozzo at the International Fencing Federation
• Daniele Garozzo at the European Fencing Confederation
• Daniele Garozzo at Olympics.com
• Daniele Garozzo at the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)
• Daniele Garozzo at Olympedia
• Daniele Garozzo at the Italian Fencing Federation (in Italian)