Tara Dragas

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Tara Dragas
Born (2007-02-17) 17 February 2007 (age 18)
San Daniele del Friuli, Italy
Gymnastics career
Discipline Rhythmic gymnastics
Country
represented		Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
(2020–present)
Former countries representedFlag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia
ClubAssociazione Sportiva Udinese
Head coach(es) Špela Dragaš
Eponymous skills The Dragas: a 360 degree turning Arabesque, free leg horizontal backward with help, and with horizontal backbend [1]
Medal record
Event1st2nd3rd
European Championships 110
European Cup 021
Junior European Championships 010
World Cup 113
Grand Prix 032
Total286
Representing Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Rhythmic Gymnastics
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2025 Tallinn Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Budapest Team
European Cup
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2025 Baku Clubs
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2025 Baku Ribbon
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2025 Baku Hoop
Junior European Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Tel Aviv Ribbon

Tara Dragas (born 17 February 2007) is an Italian individual rhythmic gymnast [2] of Montenegrin-Slovenian descent. She is the 2022 European ribbon junior silver medalist.

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At the national level, she is the 2025 Italian all-around silver medalist, the 2022 Italian Junior champion and a two-time (2020, 2021) Italian Junior silver medalist. [3]

Personal life

Her mother, Špela Dragaš, is her coach and also the head coach of the Associazione Sportiva Udinese, where Dragas trains. [4] Her father, Sasha Dragas, is a Croatian born Montenegrin singer and actor from the village of Dragaši. [5] [6] [7] She has an older brother, Marko. Her maternal family comes from the Slovene minority in Italy. She fluently speaks three languages: Italian, Slovenian, and English. [8]

Career

Drags took up rhythmic gymnastics at the age of four at the Associazione Sportiva Udinese. In her younger years, she also competed in Slovenia, representing KRG Narodni dom. She won the Slovenian National Championship title three times (2015–2017) in the girls' category. [9] [10] Afterward, she began participating in Italian national competitions.

Junior

Dragas debuted as a member of the national team in November 2020 at a bilateral competition held between Italy and Germany in Desio. [11]

In 2022, she won 3 gold medals at the 5th edition of Comegym tournament [12] and two gold medals at the international tournament in Portimão. [13] She represented Italy at the Junior European Championships in Tel Aviv and won the silver medal in the ribbon final. Together with Alice Taglietti, she placed 5th in the team competition. [14] Later in the year, she participated in the Tart Cup in Brno, where she won four golds and a silver medal. [15]

Senior

2023

In 2023, Dragas made her senior international debut at the World Cup Sofia, along with veterans Milena Baldassarri and Sofia Raffaeli. [16] Ultimately, she placed 19th place in the all-around competition. [17] In June, Dragas competed at the 2023 Italian National Championships, her first as a senior, and finished in 7th place in the all-around competition. [18] The next day, she won a silver medal with clubs and a bronze medal in the hoop final. [19]

2024

In 2024, she attended more international competitions. On 19–21 April, she competed at Baku World Cup and placed 11th in the all-around. She advanced into two apparatus finals, finishing 4th in hoop and 6th in ball. [20] She next competed at World Challenge Cup Portimao in Portugal, where she took 13th place in the all-around. She qualified to the all final and ended in 6th place.

In May, Dragas was selected to represent Italy at the 2024 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary, together with Sofia Raffaeli and Milena Baldassarri. They won the silver medal in the team competition. On 8 June, Dragaš competed at the 2024 Italian National Championships and finished in 4th place in the all-around. [21] She also won the gold medal in the ribbon final, silver medals in hoop and clubs and bronze in the ball final. In July, she competed at Cluj-Napoca World Challenge Cup and placed 14th in the all-around. [22]

2025

In 2025, Dragas began her international season competing at the Grand Prix Thiais in late March. She won the silver medal in the all-around behind Taisiia Onofriichuk and qualified for all four apparatus finals. [23] She won silver medals in the clubs and ribbon finals and bronze medals with hoop and ball. [24] On 18-20 April, she competed at the Baku World Cup, where she finished in 11th place in the all-around and advanced into two apparatus finals. She won bronze in the ribbon final, which was her first World Cup medal. [25] [26] On 1-4 May, Dragas competed at the 2025 European Cup Baku, where she won a bronze medal with hoop and silver medals with clubs and ribbon. In the cross-battles she was defeated in the first round by Lian Rona.

In June, Dragas was selected to represent Italy, along with Alice Taglietti and Sofia Raffaeli, at the 2025 European Championships in Tallinn. Together with the senior group, they won the gold medal in the team competition. [27] She qualified to her first all-around final, where she ended in 5th place. On 14 June, she competed at the 2025 Italian National Championships and won the silver medal in the all-around. In a tight race with Raffaeli, she lost by 0.35 points. [28] The day after, she won gold medals in the clubs and ribbon finals and silver in hoop and ball behind Raffaeli. [29] In July, she took 5th place in all-around at Milan World Cup. [30] She qualified to three finals, winning her first World Cup gold medal, in ribbon final and a bronze medal with ball. She placed 6th in clubs final. Then she competed at Cluj-Napoca World Challenge Cup and took 5th place in all-around, again. She won bronze medal in ball final and silver in clubs. [31]

Dragas was selected to represent Italy alongside Sofia Raffaeli at the 2025 World Championships, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [32] In her first world championship all-around final, she finished in 13th place. Together with Sofia Raffaeli and senior group she took 6th place in team competition. [33] She also took 6th place in ball and 4th place in ribbon final. [34]

Routine music information

YearApparatusMusic Title
2025HoopWake up (feat. XEAH by Tommee Profitt
Ball (first) I Want to Know What Love Is by Mariah Carey
Ball (second)Vranjanka (Live version) by Jelena Tomašević
ClubsCaravan by Boban & Marko Markovic Orchestra
RibbonCria Da Ivete (Ao Vivo) by Ivete Sangalo
2024HoopGuide Me Home by Freddie Mercury
BallComo La Flor (feat. Mayre Martinez) from Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox
Clubs Turn Down for What by DJ Snake, Lil John, Prrrum and Rompe (Instrumental) by Daddy Yankee, Cosculluela
RibbonFato, mori dušmanke by Louis
2023HoopCraw-Fever by Elvis Presley
BallSOS by Dimash
ClubsQuantum Utopia (feat. Eugene Hütz) by Goran Bregović
RibbonVegas Rehearsal/That's All Right by Austin Butler and Elvis Presley
2022HoopBeauty and the beast (Cinematic Piano/ Cello) cover by Jennifer Thomas and Armen Ksajikian
BallSOS by Dimash
ClubsOpera by Gabry Ponte & La Diva
RibbonStalker's Tango by Autoheart
2021Hoop
Ball
ClubsRave de Favela by Major Lazer, MC Lan, BEAM
RibbonCaravan by Raphael Gualazzi

Competitive highlights

(Team competitions in seniors are held only at the World Championships, Europeans and other Continental Games.)

International: Senior
YearEventAATeam Hoop Ball Clubs Ribbon
2025 World Championships 13th6th18th (Q)6th15th (Q)4th
World Cup Challenge Cluj-Napoca 5th6th3rd2nd10th (Q)
World Cup Milan 5th28th (Q)3rd6th1st
European Championships 5th1st10th (Q)6th5th
European Cup Baku 3rd2nd2nd
World Cup Baku 11th11th (Q)27th (Q)6th3rd
Grand Prix Thiais 2nd3rd3rd2nd2nd
2024 European Championships 2nd15th (Q)
World Challenge Cup Cluj-Napoca 14th16th (Q)20th (Q)10th (Q)17th (Q)
World Cup Portimao 13th14th (Q)6th10th (Q)30th (Q)
World Cup Baku 11th4th6th18th (Q)18th (Q)
2023MTM Ljubljana Tournament1st1st2nd3rd1st
World Cup Sofia 19th15th (Q)20th (Q)21st (Q)24th (Q)
International: Junior
YearEventAATeam Hoop Ball Clubs Ribbon
2022IT Tart Cup1st1st1st1st2nd
Junior European Championships 5th4th2nd
IT Portimao1st1st
National: Senior
YearEventAATeam Hoop Ball Clubs Ribbon
2025 Italian National Championships 2nd2nd2nd1st1st
2024 Italian National Championships 4th2nd3rd2nd1st
2023 Italian National Championships 7th2nd13th (Q)3rd15th (Q)
National: Junior
YearEventAATeam Hoop Ball Clubs Ribbon
2022 Italian National Championships 1st
2021 Italian National Championships 2nd
2020 Italian National Championships 2nd
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

  1. ↑ "Tara Dragas of Italy has a new Rhythmic element named after her". www.gymnastics.sport. 5 August 2025. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
  2. ↑ "DRAGAS Tara - FIG Athlete Profile". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  3. ↑ "Asu ai vertici della ginnastica ritmica, Tara Dragas vice campionessa italiana junior" (in Italian). 29 November 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
  4. ↑ "La figlia d'arte Tara Dragas già a medaglia È lei la promessa della ritmica italiana". Messaggero Veneto (in Italian). 7 May 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  5. ↑ Villa, Stefano (20 April 2025). "Chi è Tara Dragas, il nome nuovo della ginnastica ritmica già sul podio in Coppa del mondo". OA Sport (in Italian). Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  6. ↑ "VIDEO Tara Dragaš - zlatna i bronzana na Svjetskom kupu u ritmičkoj gimnastici, Milano uživao u ritmu "Lele Vranjanke" - Sportfem" (in Serbian). 22 July 2025. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  7. ↑ Vivaldi, Beatrice (20 March 2023). "Intervista a Tara Dragas: una figlia d'arte pronta a stupire". BlaBlaGym (in Italian). Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  8. ↑ "Plesala uz pesmu "Vranjanka", ali ne za Srbiju: Tara Dragaš je prvakinja sveta i brani boje druge zemlje". mondo.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  9. ↑ "DRŽAVNO PRVENSTVO V RITMIČNI GIMNASTIKI 2016 INDIVIDUALNO" (in Slovenian). 15 May 2016. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
  10. ↑ "DRŽAVNO PRVENSTVO V RITMIČNI GIMNASTIKI 2017 - INDIVIDUALNE SESTAVE" (in Slovenian). 24 June 2017. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
  11. ↑ "Desio – Road to Kiev 2020, il bilaterale di Ritmica tra Italia-Germania verso gli Europei". www.federginnastica.it. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  12. ↑ "Mersin - Arriva l'acuto anche dalla Ritmica. Taglietti e Dragas trionfano nell'All Around per Team". www.federginnastica.it. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
  13. ↑ "2022 Portimão Results" (PDF). ginastica.org.
  14. ↑ "2022 European Championships Result Book" (PDF). europeangymnastics.
  15. ↑ "TART CUP 2022". rgform.eu.
  16. ↑ "ASU - Tara Dragaš called up with the seniors for the World Cup in Sofia".
  17. ↑ "SOFIA WORLD CUP 2023 - RESULTS" (in Bulgarian). Archived from the original on 4 April 2023. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  18. ↑ "Ginnastica ritmica, Campionato Assoluto 2023: Raffaeli trionfa a Folgaria e concede il bis". Sportface.it (in Italian). 10 June 2023.
  19. ↑ "Folgaria - FLASH NEWS: Raffaeli di un altro pianeta. Baldassarri, Dragas e Sella incantano nelle finali Assolute". Federginnastica.it (in Italian). 10 June 2023.
  20. ↑ "World Cup Baku Results Book" (PDF). 21 April 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
  21. ↑ "Ginnastica ritmica, Assoluti Folgaria 2024: Sofia Raffaeli concede il tris nel Concorso Generale". Sportface.it (in Italian). 8 June 2024.
  22. ↑ "Moov Leasing World Challenge Cup Cluj-Napoca Results" . Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  23. ↑ "2025 All-Around" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 March 2025.
  24. ↑ "Thiais - Argento All around per una super Tara Dragas al Grand Prix francese" [Thiais - All around silver for a super Tara Dragas at the French Grand Prix]. Italian Gymnastics Federation (in Italian). 30 March 2025. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
  25. ↑ "Baku - Tara credici, sei una stella! Dragas, bronzo al nastro in Coppa del Mondo" [Baku - Tara believe it, you are a star! Dragas, bronze in ribbon at the World Cup]. Italian Gymnastics Federation (in Italian). 20 April 2025. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  26. ↑ "Tara Dragas sul podio a Baku, bronzo nel nastro" [Tara Dragas on the podium in Baku, bronze in ribbon]. Rai News (in Italian). 21 April 2025. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
  27. ↑ "Tallinn - Italia campione d'Europa, storico oro nel Team Ranking. Spagna regina all-around. Farfalle in finale ai nastri" [Tallinn - Italy European champion, historic gold in the Team Ranking. Spain all-around queen. Butterfly final at the ribbons]. Italian Gymnastics Federation (in Italian). 7 June 2025. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  28. ↑ "Folgaria - Poker assoluto di Raffaeli. Dragas incalza. Anche Paolini sul podio del Trentino. Finali in diretta su Sportface". Italian Gymnastics Federation (in Italian). 14 June 2025. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  29. ↑ "Folgaria – Raffaeli e Dragas regine delle finali. Uno show assoluto! Albachiara stella d'Insieme" [Folgaria – Raffaeli and Dragas queens of the finals. An absolute show! Albachiara star of the groups]. Italian Gymnastics Federation. 15 June 2025. Retrieved 22 June 2025.
  30. ↑ "Milano - Raffaeli regina di Coppa, Dragas in top five" (in Italian). Federazione Ginnastica d’Italia. 19 July 2025. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  31. ↑ "Cluj Napoca - Niente podi azzurri ma tante finali: oggi Sofia, Tara e le Farfalle vanno a caccia di medaglie". www.federginnastica.it (in Italian). Retrieved 27 July 2025.
  32. ↑ "Top stars named for Rhythmic Worlds in Rio". International Gymnastics Federation. 25 July 2025. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
  33. ↑ "Rio de Janeiro - La squadra azzurra non brilla nell'All around. Occhi puntati su Raffaeli e Dragas" [Rio de Janeiro - The blue team doesn't shine in the All around. Eyes on Raffaeli and Dragas.] (in Italian). Federazione Ginnastica d’Italia. 24 August 2025. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
  34. ↑ "Rio de Janeiro - Raffaeli is on fire: oro al cerchio e bronzo alla palla. Quarta Dragas al nastro" [Rio de Janeiro - Raffaeli is on fire: gold to the circle and bronze to the ball. Fourth Dragas on the tape] (in Italian). Federazione Ginnastica d’Italia. 24 August 2025. Retrieved 25 August 2025.
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