Ilaria Bianco

Ilaria Bianco

Bianco at the 2014 Orléans Grand Prix
Personal information
Nationality  Italy
Born (1980-05-29) 29 May 1980
Pisa, Italy
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Sport Fencing
Event(s) Sabre
Club Sala d'Armi Aeronautica Militare[1]
Coached by Nicola Zanotti[1]

Ilaria Bianco (born May 29, 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]

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