page_title: Giusy Versace
section_title: Sporting career
hierarchical_section_title: Giusy Versace / Sporting career
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Championnats du monde d'athlétisme IPC 2013.
context_page_description: Giuseppina "Giusy" Versace is an Italian Paralympic athlete who competes in sprinting events in international level events and a television presenter and politician for the Forza Italia party in 2018.
context_section_description: After Versace's accident, she decided to take up sport in 2010 when she began racing with carbon prosthesis. She participated in the Italian Athletics Championships became the first Italian athlete to run with bilateral amputation, she has won eleven national titles to her name as well as national records in the 60 metres, 100 metres and 200 metres runs.
  Her first international debut in the athletics world was competing at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon. She was seventh in the women's 200m T44 and was a semi-finalist in the women's 100m T44. 
  The peak of athletics career was in 2016 when she won two medals in the 2016 IPC Athletics European Championships: a silver in the 200m T44 and a bronze in the 400m T44. She competed in the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro where she didn't advance to the finals in 100m T44 and was eighth in the 200m T44.
caption: Versace at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships
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