bebe vio


  • Photographer
    cristian castelnuovo
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Cristian Castelnuovo Fotografo
  • Date of Photograph
    11-2016
  • Technical Info
    digital photography

Beatrice Maria “Bebe” Vio (born 4 March 1997) is an Italian wheelchair fencer, European champion in 2014 and 2016, World champion in 2015, and Paralympic champion in 2016 in the foil B category. In late 2008 she contracted what was first thought to be a common flu, but turned out to be severe meningitis. Necrosis led to the amputation of both her legs from the knee, and both her arms from the forearms. After more than three months of intensive rehabilitation she was able to come back to sport. She uses a special prosthetics to hold her foil, fencing from the shoulder. Under the coaching of Federica Berton and Alice Esposito she took part in her first wheelchair fencing competition in 2010. Her experience inspired her parents to found the non-profit organization Art4sport, which promotes sport for amputee young people.

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