Carla Marangoni, (13 November 1915 – 18 January 2018) was an Italian

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who competed in the

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. She was born in

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as Carla, but she is usually (mistakenly) mentioned in the official statistics as Clara. In 1928, she won the silver medal as member of the Italian gymnastics team and was therefore among the first Italian women to win an Olympic medal. She was also the last surviving athlete from the 1928 Summer Games. Marangoni died on 18 January 2018 at the age of 102 years. She was the 6th and last youngest medalist from the Olympic Games (12 years and 270 days) until the silver medal in

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from the

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lian

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in 2021 (13 years and 203 days).

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* * * * * 1915 births 2018 deaths Gymnasts at the 1928 Summer Olympics Italian women centenarians Italian female artistic gymnasts Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for Italy Olympic medalists in gymnastics Olympic silver medalists for Italy Sportspeople from Pavia 20th-century Italian sportswomen {{Italy-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub

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