Luca Curatoli

Luca Curatoli (born 25 July 1994) is an Italian left-handed sabre fencer, 2015 team world champion, and 2021 team Olympic silver medalist.^[2]

Luca Curatoli
Personal information
Born	(1994-07-25) 25 July 1994 (age 29) Naples, Italy
Sport
Country	Italy
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	Sabre
Hand	left-handed
National coach	Giovanni Sirovich
Club	Fiamme Oro^[1] Circolo Posillipo
Head coach	Leonardo Caserta
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Men's sabre Representing  Italy Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Team World Championships 2015 Moscow Team 2018 Wuxi Team 2017 Leipzig Team 2019 Budapest Individual 2019 Budapest Team 2022 Cairo Team European Games 2023 Kraków–Małopolska Team European Championships 2015 Montreux Team 2016 Toruń Team 2017 Tbilisi Team 2018 Novi Sad Team 2022 Antalya Individual 2023 Kraków Team 2017 Tbilisi Individual 2019 Düsseldorf Team

Career

Curatoli is the half-brother of 1995 sabre world champion Raffaello Caserta and of Leonardo Caserta, who coaches him at Circolo Posillipo.^[3] In 2014 he won the gold medal at the Junior European Championships in Jerusalem and took a double gold haul at the Junior World Championships in Plovdiv.^[4]

In the 2014-15 season he climbed his first World Cup podium with a bronze medal in Warsaw. These results had him selected into the Italian senior national team, with whom he was silver medallist at the 2015 European Championships.^[5] At the 2015 World Fencing Championships, his first participation in this type of event, he achieved the best Italian performance in men's sabre by reaching the table of 16, where he was defeated by reigning Olympic champion Áron Szilágyi.^[6] In the team event, Italy prevailed successively over the Czech Republic, Mexico, Romania and France to reach the final, where they met host Russia. Curatoli was chosen to open the match against Nikolay Kovalev and hold his stead in his following relays, helping his team to win the gold medal.^[7]

Medal Record

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Event	Position
2021	Tokyo, Japan	Team Men's Sabre	2nd^[8]

World Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2015	Moscow, Russia	Team Men's Sabre	1st^[9]
2017	Leipzig, Germany	Team Men's Sabre	3rd^[10]
2018	Wuxi, China	Team Men's Sabre	2nd^[11]
2019	Budapest, Hungary	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd^[12]
2019	Budapest, Hungary	Team Men's Sabre	3rd^[13]

European Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2015	Montreux, Switzerland	Team Men's Sabre	2nd^[14]
2016	Toruń, Poland	Team Men's Sabre	2nd^[15]
2017	Tbilisi, Georgia	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd^[16]
2017	Tbilisi, Georgia	Team Men's Sabre	2nd^[17]
2018	Novi Sad, Serbia	Team Men's Sabre	2nd^[18]
2019	Düsseldorf, Germany	Team Men's Sabre	3rd^[19]
2022	Antalya, Turkey	Individual Men's Sabre	2nd^[20]

Grand Prix

Date	Location	Event	Position
2017-03-31	Seoul, South Korea	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd^[21]
2017-06-02	Moscow, Russia	Individual Men's Sabre	1st^[22]
2018-05-11	Moscow, Russia	Individual Men's Sabre	2nd^[23]
2019-05-24	Moscow, Russia	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd^[24]
2020-01-10	Montreal, Canada	Individual Men's Sabre	2nd^[25]
2021-11-11	Orléans, France	Individual Men's Sabre	2nd^[26]

World Cup

Date	Location	Event	Position
2015-02-20	Warsaw, Poland	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd^[27]
2016-05-13	Madrid, Spain	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd^[28]
2016-11-04	Dakar, Senegal	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd^[29]
2018-02-02	Padua, Italy	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd^[30]
2019-02-01	Warsaw, Poland	Individual Men's Sabre	2nd^[31]
2019-03-08	Padua, Italy	Individual Men's Sabre	1st^[32]
2020-02-21	Warsaw, Poland	Individual Men's Sabre	3rd^[33]
2022-03-18	Budapest, Hungary	Individual Men's Sabre	2nd^[34]
2022-05-06	Madrid, Spain	Individual Men's Sabre	2nd^[35]

References

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6. Stefano Arcobelli (14 July 2015). "Scherma, Mondiali a Mosca: l'Italia parte male. Sciabola a secco". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian).
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External links

• Luca Curatoli at the International Fencing Federation 
• Luca Curatoli at the European Fencing Confederation 
• Luca Curatoli at Olympedia 
• (in Italian) Luca Curatoli at the Italian Fencing Federation