Romana Calligaris (15 December 1924 – 21 April 2002) was an Italian

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who won 15 national titles between 1947 and 1953. She competed at the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. After Japan declared in ...

in the

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and 4 × 100 m relay events but failed to reach the finals. The pool which hosted the European SC Championships 2005 in

Trieste Trieste ( , ; ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital and largest city of the Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, as well as of the Province of Trieste, ...

is named after Bruno Bianchi, not Romana Calligaris.

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Italian female swimmers Olympic swimmers for Italy Swimmers at the 1952 Summer Olympics 1924 births 2002 deaths Italian female freestyle swimmers People from Mariano del Friuli Sportspeople from the Province of Gorizia 20th-century Italian sportswomen {{Italy-swimming-bio-stub

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