Clarissa Claretti

Clarissa Claretti ( born October 7, 1980 in Fermo ) is an Italian former athlete.

Claretti won in 2002 as a successor of ester Balassini their first Italian championship title in the hammer throw. At the European Championships 2002, she immediately reached the final and finished with 66.25 meters, eighth, two places behind Balassini. In 2003, she again won the national championship, but retired at the 2003 World Championships as well in the qualifier as a year later at the Olympic Games. Only at the 2005 World Championships she was back in an international final and finished ninth, the same year she threw the hammer with 70.59 meters for the first time about the seventy -meter mark. In 2006, she won her third national championship in Italy, the 2007 and 2008 more titles followed. At the European Championships 2006, she threw the hammer 69.78 meters, finishing in seventh place. With 70.74 meters she finished in seventh place also at the World Championships in 2007. On July 19, 2008, she threw the hammer in Cagliari at 72.46 meters, their previous best jump. At the Olympic Games in 2008, it achieved 71.33 meters, so she reached for the third consecutive year to seventh place at the season climax. This series failed at the 2009 World Championships, where she finished in eighth place with 71.56 meters. At a height of 1.70 meters to her competition weight was 70 kilograms.

In April 2010, she married the engineer Gianni Senzacqua.