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| Nickname(s) | Sofi, Atomic Ant, Vulcano | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 January 2004 Chiaravalle, Marche; Italy[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior International Elite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Faber Ginnastica Fabriano | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Julieta Cantaluppi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach(es) | Kristina Ghiurova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Bilyana Dyakova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eponymous skills | The Raffaeli: Side split pivot without help, trunk side at horizontal on relevé with free leg bent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World ranking | 7 WC [2] (2021) 1 WC [3] (2022) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sofia Raffaeli (born 19 January 2004) is an Italian individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2021 World Championships hoop bronze medalist, 2022 European Championships hoop and clubs champion and ball silver medalist, and 2019 Junior World Championships rope and clubs silver medalist. She is the first Italian individual rhythmic gymnast to medal in the European Championships, to win a gold medal at the European Championships, and to win three All-around gold medals in the FIG World Cup circuit.[4]
At the national level, she is the 2022 Italian National All-around champion, 2021 Italian National All-around silver medalist, and 2020 Italian National All-around bronze medalist. As of 2022, she is the most decorated individual rhythmic gymnast from the Italian Gymnastics Federation.
Career
Junior
She represented Italy at the 2018 Junior European Championships in Guadalajara, Spain, where she qualified to the clubs final and she finished in 5th place. In 2019, she competed at the 2019 Junior World Championships in Moscow, Russia. She won three silver medals - Team, Rope and Clubs, she also placed 8th in Ball and 7th in Ribbon.
Senior
She won a bronze medal in All-Around finals at the 2020 Italian National Championships behind Milena Baldassarri and Alexandra Agiurgiuculese. And she also won a gold medal in clubs and a silver medal in ball.[5]
In the 2021 Season, Raffaeli made her senior international debut at the 2021 Sofia World Cup. She finished 10th All-Around behind Sabina Tashkenbaeva and qualified to two apparatus finals, where she won a silver medal with clubs and a bronze medal with ribbon.[6] On April 16–18, Raffaeli competed at the 2021 Tashkent World Cup where she finished 4th All-around behind Anastasiia Salos, and qualified to three apparatus finals, winning a silver medal with hoop and ribbon, and also placing 4th in clubs.[7] In May, Raffaeli participated at the 2021 Pesaro World Cup where she placed 8th in the All-round behind Laura Zeng and qualified to 2 apparatus finals placing 6th in clubs and 5th in ribbon. In June, she won the silver medal in the All-around final at the 2021 Italian National Championships only behind Milena Baldassarri and in front of Alexandra Agiurgiuculese. She also managed to enter all four apparatus finals winning 1st in clubs, 2nd in hoop and 3rd in ball and ribbon. Raffaeli was then selected to compete at the 2021 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships, in Varna, Bulgaria, along with Alexandra Agiurgiuculese. She qualified to the individual all-round final and the clubs final, where she finished both finals in 8th place. At the 2021 Marbella Grand Prix Final, Raffaeli placed 4th All-around behind Anastasia Simakova and she also placed 1st in clubs, 3rd in ball and ribbon, and 7th in hoop. She was selected to represent Italy at the 2021 World Championships in Kitakyushu, Japan, at her senior world championships debut, she won a bronze medal in the hoop final. Raffaeli also made it into the individual all-around final, finishing in 6th place behind Viktoriia Onoproenko. She also won a silver medal in the team competition, together with Milena Baldassarri, Alexandra Agiurgiuculese, and the Italian group.
In the 2022 season, Raffaeli competed at the 2022 World Cup Athens and won the gold medal in All-around, in front of Israeli Daria Atamanov and Michelle Segal, becoming the first (and only, to date) Italian individualist to win a gold medal in the All Around event of a FIG World Cup stage and qualified to three apparatus finals, winning two gold medals with ball and clubs, and a silver medal with hoop. [8] On April 8-10, Raffaeli competed at the 2022 World Cup Sofia where she finished 2nd All-around behind Boryana Kaleyn. She also won 3 silver medals with hoop, ball, clubs and she placed 6th in ribbon. On April 22-24, Raffaeli competed at the 2022 World Cup Baku where she won her second all-around title in her career ahead of Boryana Kaleyn and teammate Milena Baldassarri. She also won a gold medal with hoop, two bronze medals with ball and clubs and she placed 5th in ribbon. On May 27-29, Raffaeli competed at the 2022 Italian National Championships where she won the gold medal in the general all-around competition and she also managed to win four gold medals in the speciality finals all in front of Milena Baldassarri. On June 3-5, Raffaeli competed at the 2022 World Cup Pesaro where she won the gold medal in the all around competition. On top of that she won 3 gold medals in the hoop, ball and clubs final and a sliver medal with the ribbon behind Viktoriia Onopriienko. Therefore she wins the trophy of the entire world cup circuit and she also wins 3 more trophies with hoop, ball and clubs. From June 15- 19, Raffaeli competed at the 2022 European Championships in Tel Aviv, Israel where she won 2 gold medals and 2 sliver medals in the hoop, clubs, ball and team final respectively, making her the first Italian rhythmic gymnast to win a medal and the first Italian rhythmic gymnast to win a gold medal at the European Championships.
Achievements
- First Italian rhythmic gymnast to win an all-around gold medal at the FIG World Cup series.
- First Italian rhythmic gymnast to win a medal with the hoop at the World Championships.
- First Italian rhythmic gymnast to win a medal at the Junior World Championships.
- First Italian rhythmic gymnast to win the World Cup Circuit.
- First Italian rhythmic gymnast to win a medal at the European Championships.
- First Italian rhythmic gymnast to win a gold medal at the European Championships.
Routine music information
| Year | Apparatus | Music title |
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| 2018 | Hoop | It's All Right by Ray Charles |
| Ball | Main Theme (From "Pink Panther") by The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra | |
| Clubs | Marajà by Vinicio Capossela | |
| Ribbon | The Penguins of Madagascar by Lorne Balfe | |
| 2019 | Rope | Far From Over by Frank Stallone, From "Staying Alive" Soundtrack |
| Ball | Amara Terra Mia by Ermal Meta | |
| Clubs | Money by Alan Cumming | |
| Ribbon | The Penguins of Madagascar by Lorne Balfe | |
| 2020 | Hoop | Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy by Jennifer Thomas |
| Ball | Oogie Boogie's Song by Danny Elfman | |
| Clubs (first) | Aha! by Imogen Heap | |
| Clubs (second) | Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence by Ryuichi Sakamoto | |
| Ribbon | Tango De Amor (The Addams Family Ost) by Nathan Lane, Bebe Neuwirth | |
| 2021 | Hoop | Montagues & Capulets by Richard Clayderman, Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra, Deyan Pavlov |
| Ball (first) | Oogie Boogie's Song by Danny Elfman | |
| Ball (second) | The man with the harmonica Song by Ennio Morricone | |
| Clubs | Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence by Ryuichi Sakamoto | |
| Ribbon | Tango De Amor (The Addams Family Ost) by Nathan Lane, Bebe Neuwirth | |
| 2022 | Hoop | Vai vedrai by Cirque du Soleil |
| Ball | Nemesis by Benjamin Clementine | |
| Clubs | Call me Cruella by Florence + the Machine | |
| Ribbon (first) | Two Trains by Jan A. P. Kaczmarek | |
| Ribbon (second) | Ladder Fight (Xena Warrior Princess Soundtrack) by Joseph Lo Duca |
Competitive highlights
(Team competitions in seniors are held only at the World Championships, Europeans and other Continental Games.)
| International: Senior | ||||||||
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| Year | Event | AA | Team | Hoop | Ball | Clubs | Ribbon | |
| 2022 | European Championships Tel Aviv | 4th | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 9th(Q) | |
| World Cup Pesaro | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | |||
| World Cup Baku | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 3rd | 5th | |||
| World Cup Sofia | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 6th | |||
| World Cup Athens | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 14th(Q) | |||
| 2021 | World Championships Kitakyushu | 6th | 2nd | 3rd | 9th (Q) | 16th (Q) | ||
| European Championships Varna | 8th | 6th | 11th (Q) | 9th (Q) | 8th | 39th (Q) | ||
| World Cup Pesaro | 8th | 9th (Q) | 19th (Q) | 6th | 5th | |||
| World Cup Tashkent | 4th | 2nd | 11th (Q) | 4th | 2nd | |||
| World Cup Sofia | 10th | 29th (Q) | 14th (Q) | 2nd | 3rd | |||
| International: Junior | ||||||||
| Year | Event | AA | Team | Hoop/Rope | Ball | Clubs | Ribbon | |
| 2019 | Junior World Championships | 2nd | 2nd | 8th | 2nd | 7th | ||
| 2018 | Junior European Championships | 4th | 7th (Q) | 5th | ||||
| National | ||||||||
| Year | Event | AA | Team | Hoop | Ball | Clubs | Ribbon | |
| 2022 | Italian National Championships | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | ||
| 2021 | Italian National Championships | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 3rd | ||
| 2020 | Italian National Championships | 3rd | 4th | 2nd | 1st | 17th (Q) | ||
| 2019 | Italian National Championships | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | ||||
| Q = Qualifications (Did not advance to Event Final due to the 2 gymnast per country rule, only Top 8 highest score); WR = World Record; WD = Withdrew; NT = No Team Competition; OC = Out of Competition(competed but scores not counted for qualifications/results) | ||||||||
References
- ^ "RAFFAELI Sofia". FIG. 29 July 2019.
- ^ "Rhythmic Gymnastics World Ranking 2021 Individual Competitions" (PDF). fig-gymnastics.com.
- ^ "Rhythmic Gymnastics World Ranking 2022 Individual Competitions". fig-gymnastics.com.
- ^ Lucrezia Fantoni (19 March 2022). "Sofia Raffaeli scrive la storia: è la prima italiana a vincere l'oro all around a una World Cup" (in Italian).
- ^ "Folgaria – Campionato Assoluto: Milena Baldassarri cala il tris nelle finali. Sofia Raffaeli miglior ginnasta alle clavette" (in Italian). 1 November 2020.
- ^ "Stunning in Sofia, Raffaeli rising to Tashkent Rhythmic World Cup challenge". FIG. 13 April 2021.
- ^ "Tashkent - Sofia ha l'argento vivo! Due piazze d'onore a cerchio e nastro per la più giovane della tappa di Coppa del Mondo" (in Italian). 18 April 2021.
- ^ Rebecca Alessi (20 March 2022). "WORLD CUP PALAIO FALIRO, FINALI: SOFIA RAFFAELI BRILLA D'ORO E D'ARGENTO" (in Italian).