Beatrice Vio
Italian wheelchair fencer
Beatrice Maria Adelaide Marzia Vio Grandis (born 4 March 1997), known as Bebe Vio, is an Italian wheelchair fencer, the 2014 and 2016 European champion, 2015 and 2017 World champion, and 2016 and 2020 Paralympic champion in the foil B category.
Life
Bebe Vio was born in Venice on 4 March 1997 as the second of three siblings and raised in Mogliano Veneto. In her childhood she pursued three passions, which she dubs "the three S's": school (scuola in Italian), fencing (scherma), which she took up when she was five, and scouting (scoutismo).
In late 2008, when she was 11 years old, she contracted meningitis. In order to save her life, doctors had to amputate both her legs at the knee, and both her forearms. After more than three months of intensive rehabilitation she was able to return to fencing. In 2009 her parents founded the non-profit organization Art4sport Onlus, which promotes sport for young amputees.
In May 2023, she graduated from Communication and International Relations at John Cabot University in Rome.
Athletics
Vio is a champion wheelchair fencer. She uses a special prosthetics to hold her foil, fencing from the shoulder.
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