Giorgio Avola
Personal information
Born	(1989-05-08) 8 May 1989 Modica, Italy
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Country	Italy
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	Foil
Hand	right-handed
National coach	Andrea Cipressa
Club	G.S. Fiamme Gialle[1]
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.^[2]

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[3]

World Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2011	Catania, Italy	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[4]
2011	Catania, Italy	Team Men's Foil	3rd[5]
2013	Budapest, Hungary	Team Men's Foil	1st[6]
2014	Kazan, Russia	Team Men's Foil	3rd[7]
2015	Moscow, Russia	Team Men's Foil	1st[8]
2017	Leipzig, Germany	Team Men's Foil	1st[9]
2018	Wuxi, China	Team Men's Foil	1st[10]

European Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2010	Leipzig, Germany	Team Men's Foil	1st[11]
2011	Sheffield, United Kingdom	Individual Men's Foil	1st[12]
2011	Sheffield, United Kingdom	Team Men's Foil	1st[13]
2012	Legnano, Italy	Team Men's Foil	1st[14]
2014	Strasbourg, France	Team Men's Foil	2nd[15]
2016	Toruń, Poland	Team Men's Foil	2nd[16]
2017	Tbilisi, Georgia	Team Men's Foil	3rd[17]
2018	Novi Sad, Serbia	Team Men's Foil	2nd[18]
2019	Düsseldorf, Germany	Team Men's Foil	3rd[19]
2022	Antalya, Turkey	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[20]

Grand Prix

Date	Location	Event	Position
2012-06-01	St. Petersburg, Russia	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[21]
2017-03-17	Long Beach, California	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[22]

World Cup

Date	Location	Event	Position
2010-02-27	Bonn, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[23]
2010-06-03	Havana, Cuba	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[24]
2011-01-28	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[25]
2012-05-18	Seoul, South Korea	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[26]
2012-06-29	Havana, Cuba	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[27]
2013-01-25	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[28]
2013-03-22	Bonn, Germany	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[29]
2013-05-24	Havana, Cuba	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[30]
2016-11-11	Tokyo, Japan	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[31]
2017-01-20	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[32]
2018-01-19	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[33]
2019-01-11	Paris, France	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[34]
2019-03-01	Cairo, Egypt	Individual Men's Foil	3rd[35]
2022-04-16	Belgrade, Serbia	Individual Men's Foil	2nd[36]

References

External links

• Giorgio Avola at the International Fencing Federation
• Giorgio Avola at the European Fencing Confederation
• Giorgio Avola at Olympedia
• Giorgio Avola at the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)
• Giorgio Avola at the CONI honoured athlete website (in Italian)
• Media related to Giorgio Avola at Wikimedia Commons