Martina Favaretto
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.jpg) Favaretto in 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 15 November 2001 Camposampiero, Veneto, Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country | Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weapon | Foil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hand | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIE ranking | 2 (women's foil, May 2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Martina Favaretto (born 15 November 2001) is an Italian fencer.
Her fascination with fencing started at the age of 7, when she saw Matteo Tagliariol win the gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics. At 13 she started being coached by Olympic champion Mauro Numa.[1][2][3]
She won one of the bronze medals in the women's foil event at the 2023 World Fencing Championships held in Milan, Italy. She won the silver medal in her event at the 2023 European Fencing Championships held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.[4] Favaretto is also a gold medalist in the women's team foil event at the 2022 World Fencing Championships and the 2022 European Fencing Championships.[5]
In 2018, Favaretto won the silver medal in the girls' foil event at the Summer Youth Olympics held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[6] She also won the gold medal in the mixed team event.
Favaretto, Martina Batini, Francesca Palumbo and Alice Volpi won the gold medal in the women's team foil event at the 2023 European Games held in Poland.[7][8] She competed at the 2024 European Fencing Championships held in Basel, Switzerland.
