Related Research Articles
Stefanie Maria Graf is a German former professional tennis player. She won 22 major singles titles, the second-most in women's singles won since the start of the Open Era in 1968 and the third-most of all-time. In 1988, Graf became the only tennis player to achieve the Golden Slam by winning all four major singles titles and the Olympic gold medal in the same calendar year. She is the only tennis player, male or female, to have won each major singles tournament at least four times - a quadruple Career Grand Slam.
Jean Robert Alesi is a French professional racing driver. He competed in Formula One between 1989 and 2001, including spells at Tyrrell, Benetton, Sauber, Prost, Jordan and Ferrari, where he proved very popular among the Tifosi. He won the 1995 Canadian Grand Prix, but this proved to be the only win of his Formula One career. During his time in Formula One, Alesi was particularly good in the wet and was a mercurial and passionate racer, whose emotions sometimes got the better of him. Alesi jointly holds the record with four other drivers for the driver who scored the most podiums before claiming their first Grand Prix win (15).
Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini is an Argentine former professional tennis player. A former world No. 3 in both singles and doubles, Sabatini was one of the leading players from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, amassing 41 titles. In singles, Sabatini won the 1990 US Open, the Tour Finals in 1988 and 1994, and was runner-up at Wimbledon 1991, the 1988 US Open, and the silver medalist at the 1988 Olympics. In doubles, Sabatini won Wimbledon in 1988 partnering Steffi Graf, and reached three French Open finals. Among Open era players who did not reach the world No. 1 ranking, Sabatini has the most wins over reigning world No. 1 ranked players. In 2006, she was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame and in 2018 Tennis Magazine ranked her as the 20th-greatest female player of the preceding 50 years.
Carolina Kostner is an Italian figure skater. She is the 2014 Olympic bronze medalist, the 2012 World champion, a five-time European champion, and the 2011 Grand Prix Final champion. She is also a medalist at five other World Championships, six other European Championships, and three other Grand Prix Finals, the 2003 World Junior bronze medalist, and a nine-time Italian national champion. Kostner has won 11 medals at the European championships, most recently in 2018, and is the most decorated singles skater in the history of that competition.
Sport in Italy has a long tradition. In several sports, both individual and team, Italy has good representation and many successes. The most popular sport in Italy is football. Italy's national football team is one of the world's most successful teams with four FIFA World Cup victories and two UEFA Euro victories. Italian clubs have won 48 major European trophies, making Italy the second most successful country in European football. Italy's top-flight club football league is named Serie A and is followed by millions of fans around the world.
Montalto di Castro is a comune (municipality) in the province of Viterbo, in the Italian region of Lazio, located about 90 kilometres northwest of Rome and about 40 kilometres west of Viterbo.
Valentina Marchei is an Italian retired pair and single figure skater. As a singles skater, she is a five-time Italian national champion. Her highest ISU Championship placements were 4th at the 2013 European Championships and 8th at the 2012 World Championships. She represented Italy at the 2014 Winter Olympics and placed 11th. Also, Marchei competed as a pair skater with Ondřej Hotárek, representing Italy. The pair finished 6th at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Marco Fabbri is an Italian ice dancer. With his skating partner, Charlène Guignard, he is a two-time World medalist, a two-time European champion (2023–24), a two-time European bronze medalist, a three-time Grand Prix Final medalist, and six-time Italian national champion (2019–24). The two are also five-time Lombardia Trophy champions, two-time Golden Spin of Zagreb champions, and eight-time Italian national silver medalists. They represented Italy at the 2014, 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics.
The Italian Basketball Supercup, also known as Discovery+ Supercoppa for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball super cup competition. From the 2020 Supercup edition, all the teams of LBA took part in the competition. Created in 1995, it is organised by the Lega Basket – who run the LBA and the Italian Cup – in partnership with RCS Sport, and it traditionally opens the season.
Alice Taticchi is an Italian fashion model and beauty pageant titleholder. She is the winner of the fourth cycle of Italia's Next Top Model.
Charlène Edith Magali Guignard is a French-Italian ice dancer. Competing for Italy with Marco Fabbri, she is a two-time World medalist, a two-time European champion (2023–24), a two-time European bronze medalist, a three-time Grand Prix Final medalist and six-time Italian national champion (2019–24). The two are also six-time Lombardia Trophy champions, two-time Golden Spin of Zagreb champions, and eight-time Italian national silver medalists. They represented Italy at the 2014, 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics.
Vanessa Bernauer is a Swiss football midfielder, currently playing for Zürich in Swiss Women's Super League. She previously played for VfL Wolfsburg and BV Cloppenburg of the Frauen-Bundesliga, FC Zürich in Switzerland's Nationalliga A and Levante UD in Spain's Primera División.
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot is a French multi-discipline bicycle racer, who rides for UCI Mountain Bike team Ineos Grenadiers in cross-country cycling. Ferrand-Prévot has also competed in road bicycle racing and cyclo-cross during her career, winning the world title in each discipline. During the 2015 season, aged just 23, she became the first person ever – in the history of cycling – to simultaneously hold the World road title, World cyclo-cross title and World cross-country mountain bike title.
Irina Andreyevna Avvakumovanée Taktayeva is a former Russian ski jumper. She is a multiple-time Russian national ski jumping champion and the Continental Cup winner in the 2012/13 season. At the 2013 Winter Universiade in Predazzo, Avvakumova won a gold medal in the team competition and bronze in the individual competition. She represented Russia at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, finishing in the 16th position. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, she finished fourth, the best placement of any ski jumper from independent Russia.
Francesca Ferretti is an Italian professional volleyball player who plays as a setter. As a member of the Italy women's national volleyball team she played in many international competitions and is a World Cup and European Championship winner. At club level she plays for Liu Jo Nordmeccanica Modena and has won national and international competitions with the clubs she played for.
Simone Velasco is an Italian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Astana Qazaqstan Team.
Rebecca Ghilardi is an Italian pair skater. With her skating partner, Filippo Ambrosini, she a two-time European Championship medalist, the 2022 Grand Prix of Espoo champion, a six-time ISU Challenger Series medalist, the 2024 Italian national champion, and a five-time Italian national silver medalist (2019-2023). The pair represented Italy at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Jasmine Tessari is an Italian ice dancer. With her former skating partner, Francesco Fioretti, she has won six international medals and is a four-time Italian national medalist. They have competed in the final segment at one ISU Championship.
Lara Naki Gutmann is an Italian figure skater. She is the 2020 Nordics champion, the 2019 Dragon Trophy silver medalist, the 2018 Bosphorus Cup silver medalist, and a three-time Italian national champion (2021–2023). She has reached the final segment at three ISU Championships, with a top-ten result at the 2023 European Championships.
Oona Brown is an American ice dancer. Competing with her brother, Gage Brown, she is the 2022 World Junior champion and a two-time U.S. national junior medalist.
References
- 1 2 "Miss Italia 2015" (in Italian). 22 September 2015. Archived from the original on 6 October 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
- 1 2 3 Alice Sabatini - Lega Basket Femminile
- 1 2 Profile at eurobasket.com
- ↑ "Comunicato stampa dell'organizzazione di Miss Grand Prix" (PDF). missgrandprix.com (in Italian). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
- 1 2 Swanson, David (6 August 2021). "Hiroshima Is A Lie". Scoop . World Beyond War . Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ↑ Saul, Heather (23 September 2015). "Miss Italy winner mocked after telling judges year she would most like to live in is 1942" . The Independent . Archived from the original on 2022-01-01. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ↑ Palazzo, Chiara (24 September 2015). "Miss Italy says Michael Jordan is her 'favourite Italian historical figure'". Telegraph.co.uk . Retrieved 1 January 2022.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
 | This biography article about a European contestant in a beauty pageant is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
  | This biographical article relating to an Italian basketball figure is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |