Marta Pagnini (born 21 January 1991) is a retired Italian group

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Career

She was part of the 2010 and 2011 Italian Group that competed at the World Championships that won the Group All-around gold medal. Her teammates also won a pair of bronze medals at the 2012 World Cup Final in 5 Balls and 3 Ribbons + 2 Hoops. She has won a bronze medal at the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

in the group all-around event together with other Group Members( Elisa Blanchi, Romina Laurito,

Elisa Santoni Elisa Santoni (born 10 December 1987) is an Italian rhythmic gymnast. Biography One of the veterans of the Italian group, she has competed in 3 Olympic Games, a member of silver medalist group at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and the bro ...

Anzhelika Savrayuk Anzhelika Savrayuk (; born 23 August 1989 in Lutsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian-born Italian rhythmic gymnast. Career Savrayuk has competed in two Olympic Games. She and the Italian group competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics ...

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). In 2013, with the retirement of

, Pagnini became the captain of the Italian National Rhythmic Gymnastics Team that was dubbed "Le Leonesse". In 2013, Pagnini was part of the team that took an all around silver and won a silver in 10 Clubs event in World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Kyiv. In 2014, Pagnini was part of the team that took an all around silver in World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Izmir. With her team, she competed at the

2015 European Games The 1st European Games (), also known as the 2015 European Games or Baku 2015 (), were the inaugural edition of the European Games, an international multi-sport event for athletes representing the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) of the Europe ...

in Baku and finished 7th in all around group finals, 5th in 5 Ribbons event and 6th in 3 Clubs+2 Hoops event. In 2015, she and her team mates took gold in 5 Ribbons final at the 2015 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart. She was the captain of the Italian National Rhythmic Gymnastics Team that competed at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

in the group all-around event. Pagnini and her team mates, Martina Centofanti, Sofia Lodi, Alessia Maurelli and

Camilla Patriarca Camilla Patriarca (born 4 November 1994) is an Italian female rhythmic gymnast. A member of the national squad from 2014 to 2016, Patriarca ascended to prominence on the international scene at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she and fellow rhyt ...

placed 4th with an overall score of 35,549 behind Bulgaria. She is fluent in Russian and English and serves in the

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* * * * 1991 births Living people Italian rhythmic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Italy Olympic bronze medalists for Italy Olympic medalists in gymnastics Gymnasts at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 2015 European Games European Games competitors for Italy Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships Gymnasts of Centro Sportivo Aeronautica Militare Sportspeople from Florence 21st-century Italian sportswomen {{Italy-rhythmic-gymnastics-bio-stub