Elisa Di Francisca

Elisa Di Francisca is an Italian foil fencer, Olympic champion in 2012, World champion in 2010 and threetime European champion. She won the 201011 World Cup series and has seven World Cup victories to her name. With the Italian team, she was Olympic champion in 2012, fivetime World champion and seventime European champion.

Di Francisca was born in Jesi, a town of the province of Ancona in Marche. She is the eldest of three children her sister Martina was born in 1984 and her brother Michele in 1991. She first tried ballet, but found it too quiet to her taste. Along with her sister, she turned to fencing, the towns national sport led by maestro Ezio Triccoli, Club Scherma Jesi produced Olympic champions Stefano Cerioni, Giovanna Trillini and Valentina Vezzali. Di Francesca immediately took to the sport and went on after her sister gave up, dragging her brother in her wake.

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