Davide Filippi - Fencing
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Davide Filippi is an athlete of the Italian Army sports centre and of the Italian national fencing team.
He discovered fencing in Vicenza, where he achieved national-level results in his very first years.
Davide says: "My passion for fencing began at the age of 8 thanks to my mum, who introduced me to the sport almost by chance. While we were on holiday she gave my brother and me two plastic swords bought from a market stall; watching us duel and noticing that I had a particular talent for the sport, she suggested I sign up for a fencing lesson. From then on I never put the foil down."
At 15 he moved to Padua to train with coach and former Olympic champion Andrea Borella. In the same period he received his first call-up to the Italian team for the Mediterranean Championships in Chiavari, where he won the silver medal, his first in an international competition.
From there his journey in the under-20 national team really began, with 3 World Cup podiums, an individual European silver and a team silver and bronze.
Thanks to his results, in 2018 he won a place in the Army sports group, which allowed him to turn his passion into his job. In the same year he became Italian under-23 champion (a title he won again in 2021).
The following year, in the same category, he won individual silver and team gold at the European Championships in Plovdiv. After the long break caused by Covid, in the 2022 season he achieved his first senior World Cup podium, a bronze medal at the Cairo World Cup. That summer he was called up by CONI for the Mediterranean Games, where he won the bronze medal.
His current goal is to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Achievements:
He discovered fencing in Vicenza, where he achieved national-level results in his very first years.
Davide says: "My passion for fencing began at the age of 8 thanks to my mum, who introduced me to the sport almost by chance. While we were on holiday she gave my brother and me two plastic swords bought from a market stall; watching us duel and noticing that I had a particular talent for the sport, she suggested I sign up for a fencing lesson. From then on I never put the foil down."
At 15 he moved to Padua to train with coach and former Olympic champion Andrea Borella. In the same period he received his first call-up to the Italian team for the Mediterranean Championships in Chiavari, where he won the silver medal, his first in an international competition.
From there his journey in the under-20 national team really began, with 3 World Cup podiums, an individual European silver and a team silver and bronze.
Thanks to his results, in 2018 he won a place in the Army sports group, which allowed him to turn his passion into his job. In the same year he became Italian under-23 champion (a title he won again in 2021).
The following year, in the same category, he won individual silver and team gold at the European Championships in Plovdiv. After the long break caused by Covid, in the 2022 season he achieved his first senior World Cup podium, a bronze medal at the Cairo World Cup. That summer he was called up by CONI for the Mediterranean Games, where he won the bronze medal.
His current goal is to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Achievements:
- Italian under-20 runner-up, Cagliari 2017
- European team silver, Plovdiv 2017
- Italian under-23 champion, Colle Val d'Elsa 2018
- European individual silver, Sochi 2018
- European team bronze, Sochi 2018
- European under-23 team gold, Yerevan 2018
- European under-23 individual silver, Plovdiv 2019
- European team gold, Plovdiv 2019
- Italian under-23 champion 2021
- Senior World Cup bronze, Cairo 2022
- Mediterranean Games bronze, Oran 2022
- Senior World Cup bronze, Cairo 2023
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