Francesca Russo (born November 27, 1995) is an American fencer. She qualified to represent Team USA at the
2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics
The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...
, competing as part of the
Women's Sabre team.
Raised in
Wayne, New Jersey
Wayne is a Township (New Jersey), township in Passaic County, New Jersey, Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Home to William Paterson University and located less than from Midtown Manhattan, the township is a bedroom suburb of New ...
, Russo attended
Wayne Valley High School.
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"Francesca Russo has an Eye on the Olympics"
''Wayne Magazine'', Fall 2017. Accessed August 4, 2021. "Since fencing for Wayne Valley and Bergen Fencing Club, Francesca Russo has scored some memorable victories – among them, winning the sabre competition for the University of Notre Dame as a freshman, and a second National Collegiate Fencing Individual championship in the women’s sabre last spring."
Career highlights
* Four-time NCAA Champion
* World Team Champ
References
External links
Notre Dame Fighting Irish bio
1995 births
Living people
American female sabre fencers
Olympic fencers for the United States
Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Notre Dame Fighting Irish fencers
Sportspeople from Wayne, New Jersey
Wayne Valley High School alumni
21st-century American sportswomen
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