Martino Minuto (born 7 April 1988), nicknamed Marti, is a fencer who competes in the foil event. Born in Italy, he represented his country at international level before he acquired Turkish citizenship and started to compete for Turkey.
Sport career Italy 2007 He took the gold medal in the U20 foil individual event at the 2007 World Cadets and Juniors Fencing Championships in Belek, Antalya, Turkey.
2011 He won the gold medal in the foil individual and the silver medal in the foil team event with Alessio Foconi, Tommaso Lari and Luca Simoncelli at the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China.
Turkey 2014 Minuto was contacted by the Turkish Fencing Federation after his performance at the 2007 World Cadets and Juniors Championships in Belek, Turkey. Although, he had no direct ties to the country, he decided in October 2014 to accept the invitation for representing Turkey. After his move to Turkey, he joined the fencing club in Adıyaman, southern Anatolia.
In December 2014, he competed for Turkey at the 2014–15 Fencing World Cup's Tournoi satellite (Kocaeli), Turkey leg, and won the gold medal.
2015 He took a bronze medal in the foil individual event at the 2015 Tournoi satellite (Copenhagen), Denmark. At the 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea, he became bronze medalist in the individual event.
2016 He won the silver medal at the 2016 Tournoi satellite (Cancun), Mexico.
2017 At the 2017 Tournoi satellite (Barcelona), Spain, he received the silver medal, and the same year at the Tournoi satellite (Amsterdam), Netherlands, he captured the gold medal.
2018 In 2018, he took a bronze medal in the foil individual event at the Tournoi satellite (Barcelona), Spain, won the gold medal at the Tournoi satellite (Bucharest), Romania, and another gold medal at the Tournoi satellite (Amsterdam), Netherlands, and the silver medal at the Tournoi satellite (London), United Kingdom.
2019 In 2019, he captured the gold medal in the individual event at the Tournoi satellite (Bratislava), Slovakia, a gold medal at the Tournoi satellite (Tashkent), Uzbekistan, and again another gold medal at the 2019 Tournoi satellite (Bucharest), Romania.
2022 At the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games in Konya, Turkey, which were postponed to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey, he won two silver medals, in the individual foil and in the team event with Mustafa Burak Çufadar, Alp Eyüpoğlu and Utku Özyalçın.
2025 He won the gold medal in the individual event at the 2025 Tournoi satellite (Amsterdam), Netherlands.
Personal life Minuto was born in Milan, Italy on 7 April 1988. He acquired Turkish citizenship for sporting reasons in October 2014.
He studied Economics and Management at the Università degli Studi Niccolò Cusano in Rome, Italy.
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