Vittorio Loi Explained

National Team:	Italy
Sport:	Wheelchair fencing
Birth Date:	1942 11, df=yes
Birth Place:	Nuoro, Italy^[1]
Death Place:	Rome, Italy

Vittorio Loi (22 November 1942 - 14 October 2015) was an Italian wheelchair fencer who won ten medals at the Summer Paralympics.^[2]

Career

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

• Italian multiple medallists at the Summer Paralympics

External links

• • Vittorio Loi at Memoria paralimpica

Notes and References

1. Web site: Addio a Vittorio Loi. rai.it. it. 15 October 2015. 10 September 2021.
2. Web site: Vittorio Loi - Profile. paralympic.org. 10 September 2021.
3. Web site: Vittorio Loi, ‘father’ of Italian Wheelchair Fencing, dies aged 72. iwasf.com. 15 October 2015. 10 September 2021.