Vittorio Loi
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| National team | Italy | |||||||||||||
| Born | 22 November 1942 Nuoro, Italy[1] | |||||||||||||
| Died | 14 October 2015 (aged 72) Rome, Italy | |||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair fencing | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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Vittorio Loi (22 November 1942 - 14 October 2015) was an Italian wheelchair fencer who won ten medals at the Summer Paralympics.[2]
Career
[edit]He won the Wheelchair Fencing World Championships for thirteen consecutive years from 1962 to 1974. He was a founding member of the Italian Federation of Sports for the Disabled (Federazione Italiana Sport Disabili, FISD) today the Italian Paralympic Committee (Comitato Italiano Paralimpico, IPC) and at International level was vice-president of International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (IWASF) until 2013.[1][3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Addio a Vittorio Loi". rai.it (in Italian). 15 October 2015. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- ^ "Vittorio Loi - Profile". paralympic.org. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
- ^ "Vittorio Loi, 'father' of Italian Wheelchair Fencing, dies aged 72". iwasf.com. 15 October 2015. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
External links
[edit]- Vittorio Loi at Paralympic.org
- Vittorio Loi at Memoria paralimpica
Categories:
- 1942 births
- 2015 deaths
- Paralympic wheelchair fencers for Italy
- Paralympic gold medalists for Italy
- Paralympic silver medalists for Italy
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Italy
- Paralympic medalists in wheelchair fencing
- Wheelchair fencers at the 1968 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair fencers at the 1972 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair fencers at the 1976 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair fencers at the 1980 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Paralympics