Cuomo Sandro

Sandro Cuomo (Naples, October 21, 1962) is an Italian fencer, Olympic fencing champion in 1996 at the Atlanta Olympics.
He has also been a national athlete for many years and has been competing for many years in the team of the Gruppo Sportivo Fiamme Oro, which in 1989 won the Europa Cup at club squads. Several times winner of the Absolute Fencing World Championships, the highest national title, 1987, 1988, 1990 and 1997. Outiside the arena, at least as an athlete, begins the sport administrator adventure. In 2000, he was elected National Adviser of C.O.N.I., which he held until 2004. The first fencing office was that of TC of the National Fencing, from 2001 until 2003 when he resigned in controversy with federal politics of President Antonio Di Blasi. His assignment was again entrusted to him on February 9, 2009 by Federal President Giorgio Scarso. From November 2005 he joined the executive of the European Fencing Confederation, an organ in which he also chairs the “Competition Commission”.
Among the other roles, he is a regional councilor of C.O.N.I. in Campania and director of the National Academy of Fencing. Today he is also a fencing teacher at Collana, an important Neapolitan gymnasium.
In his career as National Technical Team Officer, he collects three historical gold medals, bringing in Italy, after 46 years, the individual world title with Paolo Milanoli in Nimes in 2001, Paolo Pizzo’s gold at the World Cup in Catania 2011 and, above all, a gold ever first conquered by Italy in history: that of the Women’s épée team in 2009.
For this title, he was awarded “Technical Commisioner of the Year 2009” by USSI Campania (Unione Stampa Sportiva Italiana), delivered to him at the year-end CONI Provincial sports conference in Naples.
2014 was an extraordinary season for the Italian fencing with six medals between the World Cup and European Fencing Championships, never happened in history: the Kazan gold world with Rossella Fiamingo and two bronze medals with the women’s team and Enrico Garozzo, and Europeans Gold with Bianca Del Carretto Silver, with Paolo Pizzo and again the bronze with the women’s team.
Another top priority is the second consecutive world title won in 2015 by Rossella Fiamingo, the only athlete, along with Laura Flessel, to have accomplished this challenge.
In addition to these titles, there are many successes in the youth field, particularly in the 2016 edition of Bourges, where, with his young athletes, he achieved the “record” result of seven medals in six races: four gold, two silver and one bronze.

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