Gianfranco Dalla Barba
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| Born | 11 June 1957 Padua, Italy | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | November 2024 (aged 67) | |||||||||||||||||
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Gianfranco Dalla Barba (11 June 1957 – November 2024) was an Italian fencer. He won a gold medal in the team sabre at the 1984 Summer Olympics and a bronze in the same event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.[1][2] After Graduating in medicine and surgery with a specialization in neurology in 1985 at the university of Padua, he then obtained a PhD in neurological sciences at the University of Siena in 1995. after which he moved to France to become a first researcher at the INSERM in Paris. in 2007, he moved back to Italy as an Associate Professor of Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology at the University of Trieste where he stayed until 2023.[3] On 22 November 2024, it was announced that Dalla Barba had died from cardiac arrest at the age of 67.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Olympics Statistics: Gianfranco Dalla Barba". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
- ^ "Gianfranco Dalla Barba Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 1 April 2011. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
- ^ "UniTS remembers Gianfranco Dalla Barba: lecturer, scientist and Olympic champion". University of Trieste. 26 November 2024. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Morto Dalla Barba, fu oro a Los Angeles nella scherma: era un neurologo di fama internazionale". Gazzetta. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
External links
[edit]- Gianfranco Dalla Barba at the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)
- Gianfranco Dalla Barba at Olympedia
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