Ilaria Bianco

Italian sabre fencer

Ilaria Bianco

Bianco at the 2014 Orléans Grand Prix

Personal information

Nationality

Italy

Born

(1980-05-29) 29 May 1980 (age 43)
Pisa, Italy

Height

1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)

Weight

62 kg (137 lb)

Sport

Fencing

Event

Sabre

Club

Sala d'Armi Aeronautica Militare^[1]

Coached by

Nicola Zanotti^[1]

Medal record

Women's fencing

Representing Italy
World Championships
	1999 Seoul	Team sabre
	1999 Seoul	Sabre
	2000 Budapest	Sabre
	2001 Nimes	Sabre
	2005 Leipzig	Sabre

Ilaria Bianco (born 29 May 1980 in Pisa) is an Italian sabre fencer.^[2] Between 1999 and 2005, Bianco had won a total of five medals (one gold, three silver, and one bronze), as a member of the Italian team, at the World Fencing Championships.^[3]^[4] She is a member of the fencing team for the Italian Military Air Force (Italian: Sala d'Armi Aeronautica Militare), and is coached and trained by Nicola Zanotti.^[1]

Bianco represented Italy at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in the women's individual sabre event, along with her teammate Gioia Marzocca.^[5] She defeated China's Huang Haiyang in the preliminary round of thirty-two, before losing out her next match to Russia's Sofiya Velikaya, with a score of 6–15.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "CONI Profile – Ilaria Bianco" (in Italian). Italian National Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 11 May 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ilaria Bianco". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
^ "Sanzo mondiale a Nimes il fioretto è sempre d'oro" [Sanzo wins world gold for the foil in Nimes] (in Italian). La Repubblica Sport Italiano. 29 October 2001. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
^ "Mondiali di scherma: il fioretto è azzurro Anche Sanzo è medaglia d'oro" [World Fencing Championships: Sanzo wins another gold medal in the foil] (in Italian). La Repubblica Sport Italiano. 11 October 2005. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
^ "Scherma: Bianco e Marzocca, biglietto per Pechino senza squillo finale" [Fencing: Bianco and Marzocca guarantees ticket to Beijing without qualifying for the final] (in Italian). Blogo Italiano. 22 March 2008. Retrieved 25 January 2013.
^ "Women's Individual Sabre – Round of 16". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 30 March 2013. Retrieved 25 January 2013.