Dorina Vaccaroni
Dorina Vaccaroni (born 24 September 1963 Lido di Venezia) is a former Italian foil fencer, who belonged to the world class for over ten years and has won gold medals at all major championships.
Career
Dorina Vaccaroni was already youth world champion when she first participated in the Olympics at the age of 16 years. A year later, she won her first medals at the European Championships and the World Cup. In 1982, she won the European Championship in Mödling. At the World Championships in Rome, she only lost in the final Naila Giliasowa from the Soviet Union; together with Carola Cicconetti, Anna Rita Sparaciari, Clara Mocchi she won the title in the team standings, the first title for the Italian Squadra after 25 years. A year later, Dorina Vaccaroni won in Vienna the world title in the individual competition against Carola Cicconetti; the Squadra could defend her title from last year. 1984 won Dorina Vaccaroni at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the bronze medal, after losing in the semifinals against the German Cornelia Hanisch. With the Squadra she missed the semi-final against the German team to a 8:8 to a hit into the finals, then won the battle for the bronze medal, the French team.
After a break from competition Dorina Vaccaroni returned to the Squadra at the World Championships in 1987. At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, she won the silver Squadra behind the German team. Together with Giovanna Trillini, Margherita Zalaffi and Lucia Traversa won Vaccaroni 1990 in Lyon, the team's World Cup 1991 in Budapest Squadra succeeded with Trillini, Zalaffi, Vaccaroni and Diana Bianchedi and Francesca Bortolozzi the successful title defense. The third team title in a row erfocht the Squadra at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, in the same formation as in the World Cup last year won the Italians in the final against the German team.
Statistics
- European Championships: second in the individual standings
- World Championship: third in the individual standings
- European Championships: 1st in the individual ranking
- World Cup: second in the individual standings
- World Cup: 1st in the team competition
- World Cup: 1st in the individual ranking
- World Cup: 1st in the team competition
- Olympics: third in the individual standings
- Olympics: 4th in the team standings
- World Championship: third in the team standings
- Olympics: 10th in the individual standings
- Olympic Games: 2nd in the team competition
- World Cup: 1st in the team competition
- World Cup: 1st in the team competition
- Olympics: 1st in the team competition
- World Championship: third in the team standings