Immacolata Cerasuolo

Immacolata Cerasuolo

Receiving an award from Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Personal information
Nationality	Italian
Born	(1980-06-18) 18 June 1980 Naples
Sport
Country	Italy
Sport	Paralympic swimming
Disability class	S8 - SB8 - SM8
Event(s)	free style, breaststroke, butterfly swimming and mixed
Club	Centro Ester Napoli
Medal record Women's para swimming Representing Italy Event 1st 2nd 3rd Paralympic Games 1 1 0 World Championships 0 2 0 Paralympic Games 2004 Athens 100 m butterfly - S8 2004 Athens 200 m medley - SM8 World Championships 2002 Mar del Plata 100 m butterfly - S8 2002 Mar del Plata 200 m medley - SM8

Immacolata Cerasuolo (born 18 June 1980) is a Paralympic swimmer for Italy.

Career

A promising swimmer since childhood, she became an athlete with disability category S8 following a motorbike accident that left her without use of her right arm.

She has competed in two Paralympic Games (2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing), winning one gold and one silver medal. She also took part in the IPC Swimming World Championships in Mar del Plata (Argentina) in 2002 and in Durban (South Africa) in 2006, winning 2 silver medals.

External links

• Immacolata Cerasuolo at Paralympic.org
• Immacolata Cerasuolo at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)
• Immacolata Cerasuolo at the CONI honored athlete website (in Italian)
• Official website (in Italian)
• List of Italian gold medal winners at the Wayback Machine (archived July 14, 2014) (in Italian)
• Immacolata Cerasuolo at the International Paralympic Committee
• Immacolata Cerasuolo at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)