Andrea Cassarà (born 3 January 1984) is an Italian left-handed

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fencer, two-time individual European champion, 2011 individual world champion, and three-time Olympics medalist. In February 2025, he was convicted of intended illicit interference in public life, and sentenced to one year and four months in prison.

Fencing career

Cassarà won a bronze medal in the individual men's foil event and a gold medal in the team men's foil event at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, and a gold medal in the team men's foil event at the 2012 London Olympic Games. He competed in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, the

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(as a replacement for suspended world #1 foil fencer Andrea Baldini), the 2012 London Olympic Games, and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. Cassarà's medal record at

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include: * Bronze medal in the individual men's foil event and gold medal in the team men's foil event at the 2003 World Fencing Championships in

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* Bronze medal in the team men's foil event at the

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* Gold medal in the team men's foil event at the

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* Gold medal in the team men's foil event at the 2009 World Fencing Championships in

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* Silver medal in the team men's foil event at the 2010 World Fencing Championships in

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* Gold medal in the individual men's foil event at the 2011 World Fencing Championships in

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* Gold medal in the team men's foil event at the

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* Bronze medal in the team men's foil event at the

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* Gold medal in the team men's foil event at the 2015 World Fencing Championships in

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* Gold medal in the team men's foil event at the 2017 World Fencing Championships in Leipzig, Germany, * Gold medal in the team men's foil event at the 2018 World Fencing Championships in Wuxi, China * Bronze medal in the team men's foil event at the 2019 World Fencing Championships in Budapest, Hungary Cassarà won a gold medal in the individual men's foil event at the

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, a silver medal in the individual men's foil event at the

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in Sheffield, United Kingdom, and a gold medal in the individual men's foil event at the 2015 European Fencing Championships in

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. Between 2003 and 2018, Cassarà won 11 FIE Men's Foil Grand Prix titles, in addition to six silver medals and six bronze medals. Between 2003 and 2020, Cassarà won 17 FIE Men's Foil World Cup titles, in addition to 13 silver medals, and seven bronze medals.

Criminal conviction

In February 2025, he was convicted of intended illicit interference in public life, after being accused of trying to secretly film with his cell phone two 16-year old females who were taking a shower at the San Filippo sports center in

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, Italy, and sentenced to one year and four months in prison. "Andrea Cassarà sentenced in the first degree: he had tried to film two young girls while they were taking a shower,"
''EuroSport''.

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