Carlo Macchini

Carlo Macchini (born 5 May 1996) is an Italian artistic gymnast. He is the 2023 European horizontal bar silver medalist. He represented Italy at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Early life

Macchini was born on 5 May 1996 in Ancona. When he was four years old, his parents signed him up for gymnastics because he was a hyperactive child.

Career

Macchini won the gold medal on the horizontal bar at the 2013 European Youth Olympic Festival. At the 2017 Austrian Team Open, he won a gold medal with the Italian team and an all-around silver medal. He then competed at the 2017 European Championships and fell off his signature apparatus, the horizontal bar, twice and did not advance to any finals. He finished fourth on the horizontal bar at the 2017 Koper World Challenge Cup. He then finished eighth at the Szombathely World Challenge Cup after falling on his first release move.

Macchini finished seventh on the parallel bars at the 2018 Baku World Cup. Then at the Koper World Challenge Cup, he finished sixth on the parallel bars. He was selected to compete at the 2018 World Championships alongside Ludovico Edalli, Marco Lodadio, Andrea Russo, and Marco Sarrugerio, and they finished 14th in the qualification round. Then at the Cottbus World Cup, he finished eighth in the horizontal bar final after falling.

Macchini finished fourth on the horizontal bar at the 2019 Doha World Cup. He also finished fourth on the horizontal bar at the 2019 European Championships. He also reached the horizontal bar final at the 2019 European Games, finishing sixth. He competed with the Italian team that finished 13th in the qualification round of the 2019 World Championships. In 2020, he joined the Italian state police sports group, GS Fiamme Oro.

At the 2021 European Championships, Macchini finished fourth in the horizontal bar final. He won the silver medal on the horizontal bar at the 2021 Varna World Challenge Cup behind Tin Srbić. He finished fourth in the horizontal bar final at the 2021 World Championships despite receiving the same score as bronze-medalist Brody Malone because of the execution score tiebreaker.

Macchini finished sixth on the horizontal bar at the 2022 Baku World Cup. He then won his first FIG World Cup title at the Cairo World Cup. He then won the silver medal at the Koper World Challenge Cup behind Australia's Tyson Bull. He was selected to compete at the 2022 World Championships in Liverpool alongside Yumin Abbadini, Nicola Bartolini, Lorenzo Minh Casali, and Matteo Levantesi. The team finished fourth by slightly more than one point behind the bronze-medalists, Great Britain.

Macchini won the silver medal on the horizontal bar at the 2023 Cottbus World Cup. He then won the silver medal at the 2023 European Championships behind Tin Srbić.

Macchini finished seventh on the horizontal bar at the 2024 Baku World Cup. At the Koper World Challenge Cup, he won the bronze medal behind Tang Chia-hung and Tin Srbić. He was selected to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics alongside Yumin Abbadini, Nicola Bartolini, Lorenzo Minh Casali, and Mario Macchiati. The team qualified for the team final, where they finished sixth.

Competitive history

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Living people
1996 births
Italian male artistic gymnasts
Sportspeople from the Province of Ancona
Gymnasts at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts for Italy
Gymnasts of Fiamme Oro
21st-century Italian sportsmen