Biography of Elisa Di Francisca
Elisa Di Francisca was born on 13 December 1982 in Jesi, near Ancona, daughter of James and William Howard and Michael's sister and Martina. With Jon s on stage and approaches the fencing, after having practiced dancing for a few years. Elisa has the good fortune to start fencing with masters of fateel, Ezio Triccoli, Stefano Cerioni and Julius Tommassini, institutions in the field. Became Italian champion in the category girls in 1995, gets silver in Italian Students the following year. In 2000 Youth Championships, and third comes second to the absolute. After graduating at the liceo socio-psycho-pedagogical, the absolute Italian Championships in 2001 (tenth in the individual tournament, fourth in the team), in 2002 (26th in the individual tournament, ninth on the team) and in 2003 (second in the individual tournament, third on the team); He made his debut with the Italian national team at twenty-two, in 2004, winning the team gold in individual foil at the World Championships in New York: in the same year also take part at the European Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he received a bronze medal in the team event and ranks fifth in the individual competition.
To Absolutes, however, does not go beyond the individual, while in fifth place team tournament gets a bronze medal. The following year Elisa Di Francisca participates in Izmir Universiade, winning the team gold (in the individual race, however, is ranked seventh), and won for the first time in the World Cup, in Havana, while at the World Championships in Leipzig failed to go further in fifth place. In 2006 the World Championships are held in Turin, but the sh_akhyari marchigiana fencer stops in seventh place; that's better, instead, to Europeans, where ends second. Vanished the opportunity to qualify for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, comes second in the World Cup in Dallas, and, in 2009, gets the gold team both at the World Cup that the Europeans, alongside Arianna Errigo, Ilaria Salvatori and Valentina Vezzali.
The final explosion of Elisa Di Francisca came in 2010, the year in which winning six podiums in the World Cup (one gold, two silvers and three bronzes) and won his first victory in a Grand Prix in Marseille, against South Korea's Nam. Become the Italian champion after defeating compatriot in the final Vezzali, Europeans of Syracuse arrives on the podium, stopping at the bronze, but goes back immediately at the World Championships in Paris, becoming world champion. The successes are occurring one after the other: in 2011 the Di Francisca won the World Cup and the gold medal at the European Championships in Sheffield, in addition to Silver (individual or team) Championships in Catania. The 2012 is thegolden year of the athlete jesina: after being awarded, in April, gold collar sporting merit and have triumphed at the European Championships in Legnano, also won a gold medal at the London Olympics, beating the other Riviera Arianna Errigo in the final.
The podium, however, is complemented by Valentina Vezzali, who in the small final for third place defeated South Korea's Nam. But that's not all, because the London platform also comes gold in the team tournament, won in collaboration with Ilaria Salvatori, Arianna Errigo and Valentina Vezzali. After the British, Elisa Di Francisca change coach, and passes by Stefano Cerioni (which in the meantime had disagreements with the Italian Federation and went to coach in Russia) to Giovanna Trillini, former Olympian, she also jesina. Meanwhile, increasing his television appearances (on the small screen had already appeared earlier in the game show of Raiuno "I soliti ignoti-Identità nascoste"): among the various hosted on tv, it is also called to join the jury of "Miss Italy". In October, he spent two weeks in Kenya, as part of a humanitarian expedition with Intervita Onlus which is documented in the blog titled "out of Africa" hosted by the website of the "Gazzetta dello Sport".
In 2013 Elisa returns to television as host of the show's premiere episode of Raiuno "will our heroes", and is chosen as proclamatrice by Max Gazzè the Sanremo Festival. In the sports field, he won the gold medal at the European Championships in Zagreb against la russa Yakovleva: individual triumph you add team success, with Carolina Grass, Benedetta Durando and Arianna Errigo. After getting his neck the gold won at the Mediterranean Games of Mai, in August he took part at the World Championships in Budapest: Hungarian review gets bronze in individual tournament and gold in the team competition, alongside grass, Vezzali and Ebal. In October 2013 Elisa enters the rose of competitors to "dancing with the stars", the program hosted by Milly Carlucci on Raiuno. Paired with Raymond Todaro, is she winning the seasonal Edition of the famous tv show.
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