1. Edoardo Mangiarotti won a total of 39 Olympic titles and World championships, more than any other fencer in the history of the sport.
14 Facts About Edoardo Mangiarotti
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Electronic scoring equipment was introduced in 1936 in the epee events when Mangiarotti won a gold medal with the other members of the Italian team.
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Edoardo Mangiarotti consistently won each epee event and was second only to expert Christian d'Oriola in the foil events.
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Edoardo Mangiarotti was born into a famous fencing family on 7 April 1919.
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Edoardo Mangiarotti was a national junior foil champion at the age of 11.
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Edoardo Mangiarotti won a place in the Italian senior team at age 16 and competed in the 1935 world championships.
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In Paris, 1937, Edoardo Mangiarotti won a gold medal in a World Championships team event.
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At the 1948 London Olympics, Edoardo Mangiarotti finished with a bronze medal in the individual epee and two team silver medals.
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Two years later Edoardo Mangiarotti forged to the top in individual epee by winning the world championships in Stockholm.
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Edoardo Mangiarotti competed at the Mediterranean Games in 1951, where he won gold medals in the team epee and foil events and a bronze medal in the individual foil event, and in the 1955 where he won silver medals in the team epee and foil events and individual foil event.
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Against a record field of 76 competitors Edoardo Mangiarotti won the Olympic epee individual gold medal with decisive style.
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Edoardo Mangiarotti's brother had won the silver from Switzerland's Oswald Zappelli, who had beaten Edoardo for the silver medal in the previous Olympics.
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The Italians had a clean sweep of the medals with Edoardo Mangiarotti taking the bronze.
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Edoardo Mangiarotti retired in 1961 and left the Olympic fencing arena as the greatest combined epee and foil fencer the world had ever seen.