Riccardo Villa (born 5 January 2005) 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 ...

. He is the 2023 Junior World all-around bronze medalist.

Personal life

Villa was born in

Monza Monza (, ; ; , locally ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the Lambro, River Lambro, a tributary of the Po (river), River Po, in the Lombardy region of Italy, about north-northeast of Milan. It is the capital of the province of Mo ...

in 2005.

Gymnastics career

Junior

2022

In late July Villa 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 ...

where he helped Italy win gold as a team. Individually Villa won silver in the all-around behind Radomyr Stelmakh. Additionally he and teammate Arianna Grillo won gold in the mixed pairs portion of the competition. In August Villa 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 ...

where he helped Italy win gold as a team. Individually he won gold on pommel horse and placed sixth in the all-around.

2023

In late March Villa competed at the second Junior World Championships alongside Manuel Berettera and

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. On the first day of competition he helped Italy win the bronze medal behind Japan and China. During the all-around final Villa won bronze, 0.001 points ahead of Tomoharu Tsunogai and behind Qin Guohuan of China and

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of Colombia. Additionally Villa won bronze on rings and placed fifth on horizontal bar.

Competitive history

References

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* 2005 births Living people Italian male artistic gymnasts People from Monza Medalists at the Junior World Artistic Gymnastics Championships 21st-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub