Luca Curatoli (born 25 July 1994) is an Italian left-handed sabre fencer, 2015 team world champion, and 2021 team Olympic silver medalist.
Career Curatoli is the half-brother of 1995 sabre world champion Raffaello Caserta and of Leonardo Caserta, who coaches him at Circolo Posillipo. In 2014 he won the gold medal at the Junior European Championships in Jerusalem and took a double gold haul at the Junior World Championships in Plovdiv.
In the 2014-15 season he climbed his first World Cup podium with a bronze medal in Warsaw. These results had him selected into the Italian senior national team, with whom he was silver medallist at the 2015 European Championships. At the 2015 World Fencing Championships, his first participation in this type of event, he achieved the best Italian performance in men's sabre by reaching the table of 16, where he was defeated by reigning Olympic champion Áron Szilágyi. In the team event, Italy prevailed successively over the Czech Republic, Mexico, Romania and France to reach the final, where they met host Russia. Curatoli was chosen to open the match against Nikolay Kovalev and hold his stead in his following relays, helping his team to win the gold medal.
Medal record
Olympic Games YearLocationEventPosition2021 Tokyo, JapanTeam Men's Sabre2nd
World Championship YearLocationEventPosition2015 Moscow, RussiaTeam Men's Sabre1st2017 Leipzig, GermanyTeam Men's Sabre3rd2018 Wuxi, ChinaTeam Men's Sabre2nd2019 Budapest, HungaryIndividual Men's Sabre3rd2019 Budapest, HungaryTeam Men's Sabre3rd2022 Cairo, EgyptTeam Men's Sabre3rd2025 Tbilisi, GeorgiaIndividual Men's Sabre3rd2025 Tbilisi, GeorgiaTeam Men's Sabre1st
European Championship YearLocationEventPosition2015 Montreux, SwitzerlandTeam Men's Sabre2nd2016 Toruń, PolandTeam Men's Sabre2nd2017 Tbilisi, GeorgiaIndividual Men's Sabre3rd2017 Tbilisi, GeorgiaTeam Men's Sabre2nd2018 Novi Sad, SerbiaTeam Men's Sabre2nd2019 Düsseldorf, GermanyTeam Men's Sabre3rd2022 Antalya, TurkeyIndividual Men's Sabre2nd2024 Basel, SwitzerlandIndividual Men's Sabre2nd2025 Genoa, ItalyTeam Men's Sabre2nd
Grand Prix DateLocationEventPosition2017-03-31 Seoul, South KoreaIndividual Men's Sabre3rd2017-06-02 Moscow, RussiaIndividual Men's Sabre1st2018-05-11 Moscow, RussiaIndividual Men's Sabre2nd2019-05-24 Moscow, RussiaIndividual Men's Sabre3rd2020-01-10 Montreal, CanadaIndividual Men's Sabre2nd2021-11-11 Orléans, FranceIndividual Men's Sabre2nd
World Cup DateLocationEventPosition2015-02-20 Warsaw, PolandIndividual Men's Sabre3rd2016-05-13 Madrid, SpainIndividual Men's Sabre3rd2016-11-04 Dakar, SenegalIndividual Men's Sabre3rd2018-02-02 Padua, ItalyIndividual Men's Sabre3rd2019-02-01 Warsaw, PolandIndividual Men's Sabre2nd2019-03-08 Padua, ItalyIndividual Men's Sabre1st2020-02-21 Warsaw, PolandIndividual Men's Sabre3rd2022-03-18 Budapest, HungaryIndividual Men's Sabre2nd2022-05-06 Madrid, SpainIndividual Men's Sabre2nd
References
External links
Luca Curatoli at the Italian Fencing Federation (archive)