VALENTINA VEZZALI

Valentina Vezzali (born 14 February 1974 in Jesi) is an Italian fencer and politician. As fencer she has won six Olympic gold medals in foil competitions. Together with the German shooter Ralf Schumann, the Slovak slalom canoeist Michal Martikán and the Japanese female judoka Ryoko Tani, is one of only four athletes in the history of the Summer Olympic Games to have won five medals in the same individual event.

Vezzali is the first fencer in Olympic history to win three Individual Foil gold medals at three consecutive Olympics – Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. She also won fourteen gold medals at the World Fencing Championships, six in individual competitions (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011) and another eight in team competitions (1995, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2013), plus four silver medals (two individual, 1994 and 2006, and two with Italian team, in the same years) and three bronze medals (individual, 1995, 1998 and 2012). On 25 February 2013 she became a member of the Italian Parliament even as a politician she has achieved an outstanding record of absences participating to 2 gatherings out of 1043, scoring 0,19%.

1.     Valentina Vezzali

a)    Won five medals in the same individual contest

b)    Is a tennis player

c)    Is a football player

d)    Won six medals in the same individual contest

2.     Valentina Vezzali

a)    Won 1 medal at the  World Fencing Championships

b)    Won eighteen medals in team competitions

c)    Had fourteen gold medals at the  World Fencing Championships

d)    Is not a very good fencer

3.     Valentina Vezzali

a)    Refused to became a politician

b)    Is a very active politician

c)    Is very proposal politician

d)    Is a very absent politician