Martino Minuto
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 Martino Minuto (February 2015) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nickname | Marti | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Italy  Turkey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 April 1988 Milan, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Foil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Spor Toto SK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Martino Minuto (born 7 April 1988), nicknamed Marti, is a fencer who competes in the foil event. Born in Italy, he represented his country at international level before he acquired Turkish citizenship and started to compete for Turkey.[1]
Italy
- 2007
He took the gold medalin the U20 foil individual event at the 2007 World Cadets and Juniors Fencing Championships in Belek, Antalya, Turkey.[1]
- 2011
He won the gold medal in the foil individual and the silver medal in the foil team event with Alessio Foconi, Tommaso Lari and Luca Simoncelli at the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China.[1]
Turkey
- 2014
Minuto was contacted by the Turkish Fencing Federation after his performance at the 2007 World Cadets and Juniors Championships in Belek, Turkey. Although, he had no direct ties to the country, he decided in October 2014 to accept the invitation for representing Turkey.[1] After his move to Turkey, he joined the fencing club in Adıyaman, southern Anatolia.[2][3]
In December 2014, he competed for Turkey at the 2014–15 Fencing World Cup's Tournoi satelite (Kocaeli), Turkey leg,[3] and won the gold medal.
- 2015
He took a bronze medal in the foil individual event at the 2015 Tournoi satelite (Copenhagen), Denmark.[2][4][5] At the 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea, he became bronze medalist in the individual event.[2][6]
- 2016
He won the silver medal at the 2016 Tournoi satelite (Cancun), Mexico.[7]
- 2017
At the 2017 Tournoi satelite (Barcelona), Spain, he received the silver medal,[8] and the same year at the Tournoi satelite (Amsterdam),Netherlands, he captured the gold medal.[9]
- 2018
In 2018, he took a bronze medal in the foil individual event at the Tournoi satelite (Barcelona), Spain,[10] won the gold medal at the Tournoi satelite (Bucarest), Romania,[11][12] and another gold medal at the Tournoi satelite ([Amsterdam]]), Netherlands,[13] and the silver medal at the Tournoi satelite (London), United Kingdom.[14]
- 2019
In 2019, he captured the gold medal in the individual event at the Tournoi satelite (Bratislava), Slovakia,[15] a gold medal at the Tournoi satelite (Tashkent), Uzbekistan,[16][17] and again another gold medal at the 2019 Tournoi satelite (Bucarest), Romania.[18][19]
- 2022
At the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games in Konya, Turkey, which were postponed to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey, he won two silver medals, in the individual foil and in the team event with Mustafa Burak Çufadar, Alp Eyüpoğlu and Utku Özyalçın.[20][21]
- 2025
He won the gold medal in the indivudal event at the 2025 Tournoi satelite (Amsterdam), Netherlans.[22]
