Rossella Gregorio (born 30 August 1990) is an Italian

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fencer, bronze medallist in the 2014 European Fencing Championships. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in

Career

Gregorio discovered fencing thanks to family friends who encouraged her parents to let her try the sport. She first trained at CS Salerno, where she was coached by Antonio Serra, before joining Frascati Scherma. Gregorio won the 2009 Junior European Championship in Odense. A year later she became Junior Italian champion. She joined the national team for the 2013 European Championships in Zagreb. She was eliminated in the first round by Germany's Alexandra Bujdoso. In the team event, Italy defeated France, but ceded against Russia in the semi-finals. They edged out Poland in the small final to take the bronze medal, Gregorio's first medal in a senior international event. In the 2013–14 season Gregorio climbed her first

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podium with a bronze medal in Bolzano, followed by another bronze in Antalya. At the

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in Strasburg she reached the semi-finals, where she was stopped by World No.1

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, and came away with a bronze medal. In the 2014–15 season Gregorio reached the quarter-finals in the first World Cup event held in Cancún and proceeded to earn a silver medal in Orléans after being defeated by Sofiya Velikaya in the final. She won the silver medal in the women's sabre event at the 2022 European Fencing Championships held in Antalya, Turkey.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gregorio, Rossella 1990 births Living people Italian female sabre fencers Sportspeople from Salerno Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic fencers for Italy Fencers of Centro Sportivo Carabinieri Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Italian sportswomen Fencers at the 2023 European Games European Games silver medalists for Italy European Games medalists in fencing