The Italian gymnastics season will start this Saturday in Turin, with the first Serie A meet that will be held at PalaRuffini arena. Contrary to previous years, this time the four meets of the Italian Serie A will cover a wider time span, with the remainder of the meets scheduled for April, May, and September.
Being a post-Olympic year, many of the well-known Italian gymnasts won’t take part in this meet, either because they’re taking some time off, or because they’re recovering from former injuries.
Vanessa Ferrari is still recovering from the surgery she underwent on her tendon, though she’ll attend the meet as an assistant coach with Brixia Brescia. The same goes for her teammate Erika Fasana, who dealt with an elbow injury in Rio and underwent surgery afterwards. However, the latter is expected to come back for the last Italian Serie A meets, along with Martina Rizzelli and Sofia Busato.
Carlotta Ferlito chose to take some time off right after the Olympics and then come back slowly, getting all her skills back and regaining her top shape before starting to compete again later in 2017.
The 2016 Olympian Elisa Meneghini and the Olympic alternate Lara Mori didn’t take any time off the gym, and will respectively lead their teams, GAL Lissone and Ginnica Giglio. However, the frontrunner of the Italian Serie A is still Brixia Brescia, even without their big names, as this team feature some of the most promising young gymnasts, like Giorgia Villa, Martina Maggio, and the D’Amato twins.
This year, a bunch of foreign gymnasts will take part in the competition as well, with Helena Bonilla, Claudia Colom, Cintia Rodriguez and Ana Palacios from Spain, and the new German senior Helene Schäfer.
The competition in Turin will start at 3:30 pm local time (9:30 EST). It will be live streamed on the Italian Federation Youtube.
The teams set to compete are listed as follows.
| ARTISTICA 81 Gloria Danieli Federica Macri Elisa Iorio Emma Nardo Jodie Padovan Giulia Plozzer Tea Ugrin |
BRIXIA BRESCIA Sofia Busato Alice D’Amato Asia D’Amato Francesca Linari Martina Maggio Giorgia Villa |
| CENTRO SPORT BOLLATE Caterina Cereghetti Emma Grisetti Giada Grisetti Micol Minotti Deborah Salmina |
ESTATE 83 Rebecca Dotti Greta Lorini Giulia Messali Benedetta Migliorati Cintia Rodriguez Camilla Romano Benedetta Rosola Susanna Rota Nicole Terlenghi |
| FORZA E VIRTU 1892 Desirée Carofiglio Valentina Massone Carlotta Necchi Emma Novello Marta Novello Arianna Rocca |
GAL LISSONE Alexia Angelini Sofia Arosio Elisa Meneghini Alessia Praz Sydney Saturnino |
| GINNASTICA CIVITAVECCHIA Giulia Bencini Giulia Cotroneo Alicia de Pirro Ana Maria Lache Martina Moscatelli Eleonora Orlandi |
GINNICA GIGLIO Silvia Becattini Aurora Biondi Matilde Boni Sofia Caini Claudia Colom Alexia Gjeci Lara Mori |
| GYMNASIUM TREVISO Helena Bonilla Sveva Caschili Joana Favaretto Valeria Fabiani Camilla Franceschin Lorenza Migotto Sara Moretto Aurora Trombin Evita Zoppello |
OLOS GYM 2000 India Bandiera Martina Basile Melissa Cavazza Benedetta Ciammarughi Lavinia Marongiu |
| PRO LISSONE Martine Buro Alessia di Nicola Giorgia di Nicola Eleonora Gazzani Morgana Iannarelli Lisa Levati Enus Mariani Lucrezia Salvadori Helene Schäfer |
WORLD SPORTING ACADEMY Maria Vittoria Cocciolo Jessica Mattoni Joelle Mattoni Valentina Giammarini Ana Palacios |
Article by Valeria Violi
Photo thanks to Cristina Boggio
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I’m still waiting for the When It Counts results on your personal website, can I please have the results on there because I have been waiting for a long time, sorry for the inconvenience.
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Meneghini is only doing vault, not much of a comeback really…and then only because Praz has a slightly sprained ankle. Mariani is also out due to a foot fracture that she had to have surgery for, Ugrin is only doing one or two events, Linari is out and Maggio is only doing beam. Not a very interesting field, unfortunately! I’m very excited for Iorio, Villa and the D’Amato twins though.
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Also I don’t really get why you used a picture of Busato for this article, she’s not even competing?
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Hi, I’m the one who chose the picture above. I know that she won’t compete, though I wanted a pic of an Italian gymnast, she wears the Italian national team body which I suppose would be easily recognised by every gym fan plus I needed a horizontal picture. Also, it’s a beautiful picture!
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Haha yes finding a horizontal picture is the hardest thing about choosing a photo for this site!
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True story!!!! 😉
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Why do the pictures need to be horizontal? Will they stretch out if not? Just curious
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If we don’t upload horizontal pictures, they’ll appear on the homepage as cut off to fit 600 x 336 pixels. So if I upload something that’s 600 x 600 pixels, the width will be fine but the height will get awkwardly cut off and look bad. It’s harder to find good horizontal gym pics than you might think! Most shoot vertical.
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Oooooooh ok that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!
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the german Emma Höfele will compete for Civitavecchia
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Click to access Classifica_A1_GAF.pdf
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I’m still waiting for the When It Counts results on your personal website, can I please have the results on there because I have been waiting for a long time, sorry for the inconvenience.
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I’m sorry, I’ll put them up today! I didn’t have the login info.
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