Tania Cagnotto

Tania Cagnotto at the World Swimming Championships 2009

Tania Cagnotto (born 15 May 1985 in Bolzano, South Tyrol ) is an Italian Vice multiple World and multiple European champion in the water jump. Her parents were both very successful in diving: Your father Giorgio Cagnotto from which it is trained, and her mother Carmen Cast One were in the 1970s, the most successful diver in Italy. Tania is since December 2009, allied with the Bolzano economic adviser Stefano Parolin. Cagnotto with 19 medals ( 12 gold medals, 3 silver medals and 4 bronze ) before Dmitri Sautin the most successful water vaulter of all time at the European Championships.

Career

After Cagnotto was very successful in the Italian youth level, they began to put their focus on European competitions. At the European Championships in Berlin she succeeded in 2002 by winning the silver medal from the 10 - meter tower and bronze in synchronized diving with Maria Marconi from the 3- meter board the breakthrough. In 2004 she became European champion from the 10-meter tower at the championships in Madrid. From the 1- meter board she succeeded in winning the bronze medal. On March 21, 2008, she confirmed at the European Championships in Eindhoven by the victory of the 10 - meter tower her gold medal in this discipline. In synchronized diving from the tower, she won the bronze. Meanwhile, it is the most successful high diver of all time at the European level.

In Montreal Tania Cagnotto won the 2005 the first Italian jumper with bronze from the 3- meter board a medal at the World Championships in Montreal. Since then she has won at each subsequent World Cup at least one medal, but no gold. So they again reached on 24 March at the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne in third place. At the World Championships in Barcelona 2013 she missed the 1-M - board the gold medal by 0.10 points - but after all, won silver as well as from 3-M board with Francesca Dellapé. It would give her, once the necessary luck would turn out with such minimal point decisions in their favor.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, it reached the 3- meter board in fifth place. With 349.20 points overall she managed a new personal best, also they received the first time more than 80 points with a jump. At the Olympic Games in London she took a fourth place twice. In individual when jumping from the 3- meter board with 362.20 points she missed the third place just by 0.20 points. For this purpose, it was synchronized diving from the 3- meter board with Francesca Dellapé also fourth.

More results

Olympic games

  • 8th place in Sydney (2000) of 3- m- board
  • 8th place in Athens (2004) of 3- m- board
  • 8th place in Athens (2004) of 10 - m tower
  • 5th place in Beijing (2008) of 3- m- board
  • 4th place in London ( 2012) from the 3 -meter board at the synchronized diving with Francesca Dallapé
  • 4th place in London ( 2012) from the 3 -meter board

World Championships

  • 6th place in Fukuoka (2001) of 3 -meter board
  • 11th place in Barcelona (2003) of 10 - m tower
  • 4th place in Rome (2009) of 1 -meter board
  • 6th place in Shanghai (2011) from the 3 -meter board at the synchronized diving with Francesca Dallapé
  • 9th place in Shanghai (2011) from the 3 -meter board

European Championships

  • 6th place in Berlin (2002) of 3- m- board
  • 5th place in Madrid (2004) of 3 -meter board
  • 5th place in Madrid (2004) of 3 -meter synchronized diving board at the
  • 4th place in Budapest (2006) of 3 -meter board
  • 9th place in Budapest (2006) of 10 - m tower
  • 6th place in Budapest ( 2010) from the 3 -meter board
2009 European Diving Championships May 15
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