Valentina Vezzali Youth Olympic Games Ambassador for Fencing

From the FIE: The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Singapore will count on the prestigious appearance of the most honored fencer in history. Valentina Vezzali, foilist, (ITA) has enthusiastically confirmed that she will attend these first YOG as fencing’s Ambassador. She will take part in different activities of the Culture and Education Program arranged by the YOG’s Organizing Committee.

Her achievements and records are very vast and it will certainly be difficult to equal (3 times Olympic (Sydney, Athens, Beijing) winner & 5 times world championships winner 5 times European Champion 2 times Junior Fencing World Champion (1993, 1994) and 3 times Cadet World Champion (1989, 1990, 1991)).

The Youth Olympic Games will be webcast from their webcasting site: http://www.youtholympicgames.org/

Qualified fencers for the 2010 Youth Olympic Games Fencing Competition:

Fencers aged 15-17 will compete in boys and girl’s epee, foil and saber at the first Youth Olympic Games.  Fencing events will be held Aug. 15-18.  There will be individual events and a mixed-gender team competition.

The United States qualified 5 fencers to the 2010 Youth Olympic Games.

Foil Events:

Sabre Events: