Foil fencer Tommaso Marini on Thursday offered Italy its second title in its Fencing Worlds in Milan and its seventh medal to the host nation, which crushes the competition one year before the Paris-2024 Olympic Games.
A year after having stumbled in the final on Enzo Lefort in Cairo, the Italian giant (1.94m) had his revenge against the double world champion in French title dismissed in the semi-finals (15-13) and then snatched the gold against American Nick Itkin (15-14).
The Italian “schema” may have a successor to Daniele Garozzo, the last Italian Olympic medalist in foil, the strong weapon of the boot, with gold in Rio in 2016.
