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TEAM ITALY - NEW SENIORS FOR 2020

Generally speaking, there isn’t much depth in Italy among the 2004-born gymnasts and I don’t really see any of the ones I’m listing making an impact on the Tokyo team, but hopefully they will all stick around and will have their chance to shine next quad, especially the ones with beam and floor potential!

- Camilla Campagnaro debuted in the national team at Jesolo 2018, where she competed individually. During her early years, beam used to be her standout event, but while growing she became more of a “power gymnast” who showed potential on vault and floor. She debuted her DTY at nats 2018, a skill that was both the key to her making Jr Worlds but also a curse cause she tore her ACL on it at nats in 2019. This prevented her from going to Jr Mediterranean Champs this year, thus drawing an early close on her jr career. Now that she’s transitioning into the senior ranks, she has a very steep road ahead with the recovery and the strong 03s but I know she’s very hard working, so I really hope she’ll be more competitive next quad.

- Giulia Cotroneo first competed with the national team at Combs la Ville in 2016 in the Espoir category. She made a bunch of friendly meet teams ever since but between 2018-2019 she got mildly injured several times so lately she has kind of faded off the radars, sadly. She has plenty of BB/FX potential. Her twisting form is (was?) to die for, and she even trained a really nice 3.5 twist for a while. On beam, she’s very clean with decent D and last time I checked she was training a tuck full. All of this means nothing if she can’t stay healthy tho, plus I think the growth spurt of doomTM still hasn’t hit her so there’s that to take into account as well :’)))

- Alessia Federici is absolutely gorgeous and artistic and everything I love in a gymnast, so of course she hasn’t been healthy for more than a few months at a time in her whole career. Probably the better known out of the 2004 Italians, she used to train in Milan with Desy’s coaches before moving to Brixia. Her dance skills are gorgeous and she has lovely lines, toe point and back flexibility. She even has inbars on UB and they look good, even tho she rarely hits :’) Beam and floor are her standouts for sure but she hasn’t been able to increase her D because of injuries. In 2018 she “helped” team Italy win Jr Euros TF (not really, cause she only competed on beam and she fell so her score didn’t count but hey she still got the medal). I still hope that the planets and stars will align again at some point for her to stay healthy and make some teams next quad.

- Micol Minotti is unexpectedly the most successful (currently) out of these girls. She hasn’t been entirely immune to injuries but nothing truly major so far and she has overcome them quite quickly, which made it possible for her to work on a LOT of upgrades in a short amount of time. Training at CSB (Grisetti’s club), she can swing bars, even tho this is not her best event. She’s been training all types of tkachevs existing, including a Nabs (lol) which is good so she can get a feel for all of them. She’s also working on a double front dismount. On beam a tuck full is in the works and a double pike dismount. On floor she’s also working on increasing her D (she opened with a double pike last year) with a full-in (both tuck and pike) and she’s also chucking some DLOs into the pit because why not. I won’t be surprised if they’ll push a DTY on her at some point. I just hope it will look better than Grisetti’s.

(These are the 2004-born gymnasts currently with a valid FIG license, pics from their respective IGs, sorry if some watermarks were cut, they were already cut)

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Jesolo 2019 - Team Italy

SENIORS: Alice D’Amato, Asia D’Amato, Elisa Iorio, Giorgia Villa

JUNIORS: Angela Andreoli, India Bandiera, Camilla Campagnaro, Giulia Cotroneo, Alessia Federici, Veronica Mandriota, Micol Minotti, Chiara Vincenzi

SENIOR INDIVIDUALS (competing AA): Martina Basile, Desirée Carofiglio, Martina Maggio

Source: IGF

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Italian juniors and seniors at prep camp for Jesolo 2019

Bottom row, L-R: Martina Basile, Alice D’Amato, Asia D’Amato, Martina Maggio, Elisa Iorio, Giorgia Villa, Desirée Carofiglio

Top row, L-R: Angela Andreoli, Giulia Cotroneo, Giorgia Leone*, India Bandiera, Micol Minotti, Camilla Campagnaro, Alessia Federici, Chiara Vincenzi, Veronica Mandriota

*Giorgia Leone was added as a second thought, so one of the juniors will be the alternate since there’s 9 of them now.

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Italian juniors headed to Ghent for the FIT challenge!

Left to right: India Bandiera, Veronica Mandriota, Micol Minotti, Giulia Cotroneo, Chiara Vincenzi

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Italy for FIT Challenge 2019

Italy will attend the Flanders International Team Challenge junior competition on June 3-5. The competition will be a test for junior worlds in Gyor at the end of the month.

Gymnasts invited to prep camp:

India Bandiera Camilla Campagnaro Giulia Cotroneo Alessia Federici Veronica Mandriota Micol Minotti Chiara Vincenzi

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Another Nabieva in training, this time from Micol Minotti (2004, training at CSB club, with Giada Grisetti and Caterina Cereghetti)

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Because it’s one of the gymternet’s fave skills, here’s a step by step tutorial on how to learn how to do an Onodi by the CSB club (Grisetti’s gym), as shown by junior gymnast Micol Minotti. (The explanation is in Italian, but the video is pretty self-explanatory)

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Che ne pensi di Micol Minotti del CSB che prova un Nabieva? 🤔

Uhhhh me la sono persa ma LOL l’ultima volta che ho visto i suoi allenamenti non mi sembrava che il suo tkachev fosse particolarmente pronto :’))) Comunque buon per lei, tentar non nuoce (basta che non si infortuni) e il CSB di parallele ne sa qualcosa

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Team Italy camp for junior Mediterranean Championships 2018:

GIULIA COTRONEO MARTA MORABITO GIULIA MESSALI MICOL MINOTTI

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I didn’t even know this competition was a thing but I’m happy to see the 2004-2005 girls are getting some assignments.

Giulia Cotroneo (2004) is a really promising AAer even tho beam and floor are her strongest events for now (her twisting form is great btw). Marta Morabito (2005) has an interesting beam with a “layout” full (it’s progressively verging on the pike/tuck lol but it’s great that she’s competing it already). Giulia Messali (2005) is a bit messy in general but I fell in love with her floor choreo in Jesolo, it’s different and she presents it really well. Micol Minotti (2004) is from Grisetti’s club and even tho her D is still on the low side, she has some gorgeous flexibility and hyperextension which I hope she won’t lose entirely as she grows up (she’s very smol).

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Giada Grisetti, Caterina Cereghetti and the other gymnasts from Centro Sport Bollate did their own rendition of the “Stick It” movie!

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Another synchro beam video from Centro Sport Bollate!

(just a heads-up, keep the volume low cause their coach has a reaaaally high-pitched voice lol)

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Team ITA for junior Mediterranean Games 2018

WAG: Giulia Messali, Micol Minotti, Giulia Cotroneo

MAG: Lorenzo Casali, Ivan Brunello, Mirko Galimberti

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