July Marano (born 23 September 2008) is an Italian

artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which assigns the '' Code of Points'' used ...

. She is the 2023 Junior World vault silver medalist and team bronze medalist.

Early life

Marano was born in

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in 2008. She began gymnastics when she was seven years old.

Junior gymnastics career

2021–2022

Marano finished sixth in the all-around at the 2021 Italian Gold Championships. Marano made her international debut at the 2022 DTB Team Challenge in Stuttgart. While there she helped Italy finish third as a team and individually she placed fifth on vault. She next competed at the

City of Jesolo Trophy The City of Jesolo Trophy is an annual women's gymnastics competition held in Jesolo, Jesolo, Italy. There are competitions for the senior division and junior division. The United States won the senior team competition from 2008, 2010 to 2017, 2019 ...

where she helped Italy finish second. In July Marano competed at the

European Youth Olympic Festival The European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) is a biennial multi-sport event for youth (14 to 18 years old) athletes from the 50 member countries of the association of European Olympic Committees. The festival has a summer edition, held for the fi ...

alongside Arianna Grillo and Martina Pieratti; they finished third as a team. Individually Marano won silver on floor exercise behind Amalia Puflea and tied with Helen Kevric. The following month Marano competed at the

European Championships A European Championship is the top level international sports competition between European athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. In the plural, the European Championships also refers t ...

. She helped Italy win gold as team. Individually she won bronze on vault behind

Sabrina Voinea Sabrina Maneca-Voinea (born 4 June 2007) is a Romanian artistic gymnast. She is the 2024 European balance beam and floor exercise silver medalist and the 2023 European floor exercise bronze medalist. She represented Romania at the 2024 Summer ...

and Ming van Eijken.

2023

Marano began the 2023 season competing at the Luxembourg Open. She won gold on vault, silver on floor exercise, and helped Italy place first as a team. Marano was then selected to compete at the 2023 Junior World Championships alongside Caterina Gaddi and Giulia Perotti. The team won the bronze medal and finished only two-tenths of a point behind the silver medalists from the United States. During event finals Marano won silver on vault behind Mia Mainardi.

Senior gymnastics career

2024

Marano became age-eligible for senior competition in 2024. She made her senior debut at the Cairo World Cup where she finished fifth on uneven bars and seventh on floor exercise.

Competitive history

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Marano, July 2008 births Living people Italian female artistic gymnasts Medalists at the Junior World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Sportspeople from the Metropolitan City of Messina 21st-century Italian sportswomen