FOSSATO Francesca

Sitting Volleyball

Date of Birth: 8 Jan 1984

Age: 37

Gender: Female

Sport Class: VS1

Place of birth: TURIN

Birth Country:

Italy

Place of residence : TURIN

Residence Country:

Italy

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Sitting Volleyball	Women ITA Italy	6

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Makuhari Messe Hall A	Women's Preliminaries Pool A #01 JPN Japan 0 ITA Italy 3	Finished
	Makuhari Messe Hall A	Women's Preliminaries Pool A #05 ITA Italy 1 CAN Canada 3	Finished
	Makuhari Messe Hall A	Women's Preliminaries Pool A #09 BRA Brazil 3 ITA Italy 1	Finished
	Makuhari Messe Hall A	Women's 5-6 Classification #14 ITA Italy 1 RPC RPC 3	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location
European Championships
2	Women	2019	Budapest, HUN

Spending time in nature, reading, watching movies, travelling. (gazzetta.it, 26 Mar 2021)

Occupation:

Physiotherapist

Languages spoken:

Chieri 76 [Italy]

Amauri Ribeiro [national]

Position style:

Setter (art4sport.org, 01 Jan 2020)

She began playing sitting volleyball in 2018. (gazzetta.it, 26 Mar 2021)

She works as a physiotherapist and understood the importance of rehabilitation through sport. "I immediately remembered what I usually say to my patients and their loved ones - 'You have to reorganise the healing process by accepting your new self'. I first started playing sitting volleyball, then began walking. It's important to me to play sports and move." (gazzetta.it, 26 Mar 2021)

To compete at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (gazzetta.it, 26 Mar 2021)

She trains with the national team every other week at the Olympic Training Centre in Rome, Italy, or Pisa. (gazzetta.it, 26 Mar 2021)

Italian Para cyclist and motorsport driver Alex Zanardi, Italian footballer Alessandro Del Piero. (art4sport.org, 01 Jan 2020)

Philosophy:

"When people are experiencing a difficult time, I urge them to focus on the present and fully live in the here and now with even the simplest of gestures, such as being able to relax in the shower, feel the kiss of the sun, or overcome a bad day by thinking the next will be better. Live in the present with as much serenity as possible." (gazzetta.it, 26 Mar 2021)

General Interest

Classification
VS1 (World ParaVolley, 05 Aug 2021)

Type of Impairment
Limb deficiency (art4sport.org, 01 Jan 2020)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (art4sport.org, 01 Jan 2020)

Impairment Details
In July 2017 she was involved in a traffic accident while riding a moped with her husband. She was taken to hospital and placed into a medically induced coma, and underwent a number of surgeries before her left leg was amputated below the knee. "I was able to slowly look ahead and rebuild what was left of my body. Unfortunately not having walked for more than a year-and-a-half, things were not easy. There was lots of pain, fatigue and difficulty, but every day I got up in the morning with the determination to do better than the previous day, even when it seemed things were not improving." (gazzetta.it, 26 Mar 2021; art4sport.org, 01 Jan 2020)

General
OCCUPATION
She works as a physiotherapist at the Mauriziano Umberto I Hospital in Turin, Italy. (gazzetta.it, 26 Mar 2021; ilfaroonline.it, 03 Jan 2021; Instagram profile, 04 Aug 2020)

Social Media

https://instagram.com/_francesca_fossato

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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