Daniele Garozzo (; born 4 August 1992) is an Italian right-handed foil fencer.
Garozzo is a 2022 team European champion, two-time individual European champion, and four-time team world champion.
A two-time Olympian, Garozzo is a 2021 individual Olympic silver medalist and 2016 individual Olympic champion.
He is the younger brother of Italian épée fencer Enrico Garozzo.
Career Garozzo won the 2008 Cadet World Championships at home in Acireale, then took a silver medal in the 2011 and 2012 Junior World Championships. In the 2013 Summer Universiade he was defeated in the semifinals by Russia's Aleksey Cheremisinov and came away with a bronze medal. In the 2014–15 season he climbed his first World Cup podium with a silver medal in the Challenge International de Paris. He earned a silver medal at the 2015 European Championships after being defeated in the final by teammate Andrea Cassarà.
Ranked number 11 in the world, Garozzo was the surprise winner of the gold medal in the Men's Individual Foil at the 2016 Summer Olympics, beating the American world number 1 Alexander Massialas in the final; his victory raised his world ranking to number 2. In the same event at the next Olympics in 2021, he was defeated by Cheung Ka Long from Hong Kong with a score of 15–11, claiming his first Olympic silver medal.
In June 2022, Garozzo won the gold medal in the men's foil event at the 2022 European Fencing Championships held in Antalya, Turkey.
Medal record
Olympic Games YearLocationEventPosition2016 Rio de Janeiro, BrazilIndividual Men's Foil1st2021 Tokyo, JapanIndividual Men's Foil2nd
World Championship YearLocationEventPosition2015 Moscow, RussiaTeam Men's Foil1st2017 Leipzig, GermanyIndividual Men's Foil3rd2017 Leipzig, GermanyTeam Men's Foil1st2018 Wuxi, ChinaTeam Men's Foil1st2019 Budapest, HungaryTeam Men's Foil3rd2022 Cairo, EgyptTeam Men's Foil1st
European Championship YearLocationEventPosition2015 Montreux, SwitzerlandIndividual Men's Foil2nd2016 Toruń, PolandTeam Men's Foil2nd2017 Tbilisi, GeorgiaIndividual Men's Foil1st2017 Tbilisi, GeorgiaTeam Men's Foil3rd2018 Novi Sad, SerbiaIndividual Men's Foil2nd2018 Novi Sad, SerbiaTeam Men's Foil2nd2019 Düsseldorf, GermanyIndividual Men's Foil2nd2019 Düsseldorf, GermanyTeam Men's Foil3rd2022 Antalya, TurkeyIndividual Men's Foil1st2022 Antalya, TurkeyTeam Men's Foil1st
Grand Prix DateLocationEventPosition2015-03-13 Havana, CubaIndividual Men's Foil3rd2017-03-17 Long Beach, CaliforniaIndividual Men's Foil3rd
World Cup DateLocationEventPosition2015-01-16 Paris, FranceIndividual Men's Foil2nd2015-05-01 St. Petersburg, RussiaIndividual Men's Foil3rd2016-02-05 Bonn, GermanyIndividual Men's Foil3rd2017-05-05 St. Petersburg, RussiaIndividual Men's Foil1st2018-01-19 Paris, FranceIndividual Men's Foil2nd2019-01-25 Tokyo, JapanIndividual Men's Foil3rd2019-03-01 Cairo, EgyptIndividual Men's Foil1st2019-12-13 Tokyo, JapanIndividual Men's Foil3rd2020-01-10 Paris, FranceIndividual Men's Foil2nd2022-04-29 Plovdiv, BulgariaIndividual Men's Foil2nd
References
External links
Daniele Garozzo at the Italian Fencing Federation