Sara Bertoli (born 5 May 1979 in

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) is an Italian

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. She won two medals, silver and bronze, in the women's relay event at the 2002 and 2004 World Championships in

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and in

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, respectively. Bertoli is a member of the modern pentathlon team for

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, and is coached and trained by Luigi Filipponi. Bertoli qualified for the

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, where she competed in women's modern pentathlon, along with her teammate Claudia Corsini. During the competition, Bertoli struggled to attain a higher position in the early rounds, with poor scores in

pistol shooting Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such ...

, in one-touch

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fencing, and in freestyle swimming. She managed to improve her performance in the show jumping segment, but dropped to thirty-fourth position, when her horse Naonao repeatedly knocked off numerous obstacles, and suddenly fell her into the ground. In the end, Bertoli finished the event with cross-country running in thirty-second place, for a total score of 4,956 points. Her sister, Evelina Bertoli (born 8 July 1986), is an Olympic Italian

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rider. She competed at the 2021 and 2023 European Championships, and at the 2022 World Championships in Pratoni del Vivaro. In 2024 she competed at the

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in Paris.

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External links

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archived page from Pentathlon.org

1979 births Living people Italian female modern pentathletes Olympic modern pentathletes for Italy Modern pentathletes at the 2008 Summer Olympics World Modern Pentathlon Championships medalists Modern pentathletes from Rome 20th-century Italian women 21st-century Italian sportswomen {{Italy-modern-pentathlon-bio-stub