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Giorgio Avola
Personal information
Born	(1989-05-08) 8 May 1989 (age 35) Modica, Sicily, Italy
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Country	Italy
Weapon	Foil
Hand	right-handed
National coach	Andrea Cipressa
Club	G.S. Fiamme Gialle
Personal coach	Eugenio Migliore
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Olympic Games 2012 London Team World Championships 2013 Budapest Team 2015 Moscow Team 2017 Leipzig Team 2018 Wuxi Team 2011 Catania Individual 2014 Kazan Team 2019 Budapest Team European Championships 2010 Leipzig Team 2011 Sheffield Individual 2011 Sheffield Team 2012 Legnano Team 2014 Strasbourg Team 2016 Toruń Team 2018 Novi Sad Team 2016 Toruń Individual 2017 Tbilisi Individual 2017 Tbilisi Team 2018 Novi Sad Individual 2019 Düsseldorf Team 2022 Antalya Individual

Giorgio Avola (born 8 May 1989) is an Italian right-handed foil fencer.

Avola is a three-time team European champion, 2011 individual European champion, and four-time team world champion.

A three-time Olympian, Avola is a 2012 team Olympic champion.

Avola competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Medal record

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Event	Position
2012	London, United Kingdom	Team Men's Foil	1st

World Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2011	Catania, Italy	Individual Men's Foil	3rd
2011	Catania, Italy	Team Men's Foil	3rd
2013	Budapest, Hungary	Team Men's Foil	1st
2014	Kazan, Russia	Team Men's Foil	3rd
2015	Moscow, Russia	Team Men's Foil	1st
2017	Leipzig, Germany	Team Men's Foil	1st
2018	Wuxi, China	Team Men's Foil	1st

European Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2010	Leipzig, Germany	Team Men's Foil	1st
2011	Sheffield, United Kingdom	Individual Men's Foil	1st
2011	Sheffield, United Kingdom	Team Men's Foil	1st
2012	Legnano, Italy	Team Men's Foil	1st
2014	Strasbourg, France	Team Men's Foil	2nd
2016	Toruń, Poland	Team Men's Foil	2nd
2017	Tbilisi, Georgia	Team Men's Foil	3rd
2018	Novi Sad, Serbia	Team Men's Foil	2nd
2019	Düsseldorf, Germany	Team Men's Foil	3rd
2022	Antalya, Turkey	Individual Men's Foil	3rd

Grand Prix

Date	Location	Event	Position
2012-06-01	St. Petersburg, Russia	Individual Men's Foil	2nd
2017-03-17	Long Beach, California	Individual Men's Foil	3rd

World Cup

Date	Location	Event	Position
2010-02-27	Bonn, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	2nd
2010-06-03	Havana, Cuba	Individual Men's Foil	3rd
2011-01-28	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	2nd
2012-05-18	Seoul, South Korea	Individual Men's Foil	2nd
2012-06-29	Havana, Cuba	Individual Men's Foil	2nd
2013-01-25	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	3rd
2013-03-22	Bonn, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	3rd
2013-05-24	Havana, Cuba	Individual Men's Foil	2nd
2016-11-11	Tokyo, Japan	Individual Men's Foil	2nd
2017-01-20	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	3rd
2018-01-19	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	3rd
2019-01-11	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	3rd
2019-03-01	Cairo, Egypt	Individual Men's Foil	3rd
2022-04-16	Belgrade, Serbia	Individual Men's Foil	2nd

References

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External links

• Media related to Giorgio Avola at Wikimedia Commons
• Giorgio Avola at the International Fencing Federation
• Giorgio Avola at the European Fencing Confederation
• Giorgio Avola at the Federazione Italiana Scherma (in Italian)
• Giorgio Avola at Olympedia (archive)
• Giorgio Avola at Olympics.com
• Giorgio Avola at the Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (in Italian)
• Giorgio Avola at the CONI honored athlete website (in Italian)

• Italian male fencers
• Italian foil fencers
• 1989 births
• Living people
• Olympic fencers for Italy
• Fencers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
• Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Olympic gold medalists for Italy
• Olympic medalists in fencing
• Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
• People from Modica
• Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy
• Mediterranean Games medalists in fencing
• Fencers at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
• Fencers of Fiamme Gialle
• Sportspeople from the Province of Ragusa
• Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
• 21st-century Italian sportsmen