Giovanna Trillini

Giovanna Trillini, born on 17 May 1970, is an Italian foil fencer and a four-time Olympic champion, winning three times in the team event and once individually, with an additional silver and two bronze medals in individual Olympic competition. Her Olympic record lists foil team gold in 1992, 1996 and 2000 and individual foil gold in 1992. She has two brothers, Ezio and Roberto, who were both fencers, and she took a degree in Sport Science at the University of Urbino in 2001. At the 2006 World Fencing Championships she won bronze in the foil after losing to Margherita Granbassi in the semi-final and silver in the team foil with Elisa Di Francisca, Margherita Granbassi and Valentina Vezzali. She married Giovanni Battista Rotella in 1998 and they have two children, and in 2008 she was named a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.