Talisa Torretti, born 25 January 2003 in
Fabriano
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,
Italy
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) is an
Italian
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individual
rhythmic gymnast
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. She is the
2018 European Junior Ribbon bronze medalist and the 2018
Youth Olympic Games
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individual all-around bronze medalist.
Career
Junior
She first appeared in
Italian
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National team in 2017, when she was a member of a junior group which competed at the
2017 Junior European Championships in
Budapest
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,
Hungary
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and won silver medal in 10 Clubs final. A year later, she returned to individual competition and represented
Italy
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at the
2018 Junior European Championships in
Guadalajara, Spain
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Guadalajara lies on the central part of the Iberian Peninsula at roughly me ...
. She and her teammates
Eva Swahili Gherardi and
Sofia Raffaeli
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took 4th place in Team competition. Talisa also qualified to two Apparatus finals, taking 6th place with Hoop and winning bronze medal with Ribbon. As the most successful Italian junior that year, she was selected to represent
Italy
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at the
2018 Youth Olympic Games
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in
Buenos Aires
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,
Argentina
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. She placed second after
Russia
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n
Daria Trubnikova in Individual Qualifications and then took bronze medal in Individual Final, after
Ukrainian Khrystyna Pohranychna. She also won gold medal in Mixed Team competition.
2018-10-16 Gymnastics at 2018 Summer Youth Olympics – Rhythmic Gymnastics - Ball final (Martin Rulsch) 238.jpg, Talisa Torretti on ball
Senior
In 2019, she started competing in Senior category. She competed at the 2019 Italian National Championships and took 5th place in All-around. She also qualified to Hoop final and finished on 6th place.
In 2020, she started competing as a member of the Italian National reserve group.
In 2024, she won Italian club championships Serie A, which was her last competition. Since then, she works as a coach at her club Faber Ginnastica Fabriano.
Routine music information
See also
*
List of medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics Junior European Championships
References
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Living people
2003 births
Gymnasts at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Medalists at the Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships