Anna Piergentili
| Anna Piergentili | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 12 January 2009 San Severino Marche, Italy[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Gymnastics career | |||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Rhythmic Gymnastics | ||||||||||||||
| Country represented | Italy (2024-present) | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Faber Ginnastica Fabriano | ||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Amina Zaripova | ||||||||||||||
| Former coach(es) | Claudia Mancinelli, Julieta Cantaluppi, Kristina Guiourova | ||||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Bilyana Dyakova | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Anna Piergentili (born 12 January 2009) is an Italian rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2024 European ball junior silver medalist.[2]
Career
Junior
In October 2023, she participated in the Aeon Cup in Japan with Sofia Raffaeli and Milena Baldassarri, representing their club Ginnastica Farbiano and finishing 4th. Piergentili took 8th place in junior category.[3]
Piergentili join the Italian National Team at the start of 2024. During the year, she participated in the International Sofia Cup in Sofia, Ritam Cup in Belgrade and the European Cup in Baku. In Baku, she placed 4th in the team competition.[4]
Ultimately, she was selected to represent Italy at the 2024 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships in Budapest alongside Ludovica Platoni, Magherita Fucci and Carlotta Fulignati. With her only routine being with the ball, she qualified into the ball final in second place and placed fifth in the team competition.[5] In the ball final, she won the silver medal behind Israeli Meital Maayam Sumkin.[6] In September, Piergentili participated in the Aeon Cup in Japan, once again with Sofia Raffaeli and Milena Baldassarri. She placed sixth in the junior all-around competition, and she won the bronze medal in the team competition.[7] On 10 November, she placed 3rd at the Italian Junior Gold National Championships in the Junior 3 category. She also won gold in ball, silver in ribbon and bronze in clubs.
Senior
Piergentili made her senior debut in late February by competing for her club Fabriano during the first stage of the Italian Serie A1 club championship, she competed with the ribbon in the first stage and they placed 7th. The second stage was held on March 15, where Piergentili performed her ball routine and helped her team Fabriano reach 3rd place.[8] On 12 April, Team Fabriano competed at their home stage in Osimo; Piergentili performed her clubs routine, which helped the team win first place.
On 14 June, she competed at the 2025 Italian National Championships and took 6th place in the all-around due to some mistakes in her ribbon routine.[9] The day after, she won two bronze medals in the hoop and clubs finals just behind Sofia Raffaeli and Tara Dragas, and she also finished in 4th place in the ball final.[10]
In January 2026, Piergentili went to a two-week camp in Novogorsk, Russia, along with teammates Raffaeli and Veronica Zappaterreni, to train with Russian specialists and to work on choreography with Irina Zenovka; the trip was endorsed by the Italian Gymnastics Federation. The choice to train there was controversial and drew criticism due to the ongoing Russian War in Ukraine.[11]
Routine music information
| Year | Apparatus | Music title |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Hoop | Serenata by La Maschera |
| Ball | VALE by Power-Haus, Christian Reindl and Eivør and Balder by Power-Haus and Christian Reindl | |
| Clubs | Big Spender (from Sweet Charity) by Fosse Ensemble & Valarie Pettiford | |
| Ribbon | Bla Bla Bla Cha Cha Cha by Petty Booka | |
| 2024 | Hoop | Serenata by La Maschera |
| Ball | Imaginer l'amour by Juliette Armanet | |
| Clubs | Big Spender (from Sweet Charity) by Fosse Ensemble & Valarie Pettiford | |
| Ribbon | Bla Bla Bla Cha Cha Cha by Petty Booka |
Competitive highlights
(Team competitions in seniors are held only at the World Championships, Europeans and other Continental Games.)
| International: Junior | |||||||
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| Year | Event | AA | Team | Hoop | Ball | Clubs | Ribbon |
| 2025 | Julieta Shishmanova Prize | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | |
| 2024 | Aeon Cup | 6th | 3rd | ||||
| Junior European Championships | 5th | 2nd | |||||
| European Cup Baku | 4th | 6th | |||||
| Ritam Cup 2024 | 1st | ||||||
| 2023 | Aeon Cup | 8th | 4th | ||||
| National | |||||||
| Year | Event | AA | Team | Hoop | Ball | Clubs | Ribbon |
| 2025 | Italian National Championships | 6th | 3rd | 4th | 3rd | 16th (Q) | |
| National: Junior | |||||||
| Year | Event | AA | Team | Hoop | Ball | Clubs | Ribbon |
| 2024 | Italian National Championships | 3rd | |||||
| 2023 | Italian National Championships | 16th | |||||
| 2022 | 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
- ^ "PIERGENTILI Anna". International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
- ^ Lucrezia Fantoni (23 May 2024). "Ritmica, Europei Junior 2024: Anna Piergentili è argento alla palla" [Junior Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships 2024: Anna Piergentili was silver with ball] (in Italian). Retrieved 8 June 2024.
- ^ "Aeon Cup 2023 Results - Junior" (PDF). Retrieved 8 June 2024.
- ^ Rebecca Alessi (5 May 2024). "European Cup: buona Italia nella prova generale dei Campionati Continentali" [European Cup: good Italy in the dress rehearsal of the Continental Championships] (in Italian). Retrieved 8 June 2024.
- ^ "2024 European Championships Result Book" (PDF). europeangymnastics. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
- ^ Rebecca Alessi (23 May 2024). "Campionati Europei: palla d'argento per Anna Piergentili" [European Championships: silver ball for Anna Piergentili] (in Italian). Retrieved 8 June 2024.
- ^ Rebecca Alessi (2024-09-30). "AEON Cup: Sofia Raffaeli vince l'all-around Senior" [AEON Cup: Sofia Raffaeli wins the Senior all-around] (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-10-04.
- ^ "Forlì – Udinese domina il campionato. Armonia d'Abruzzo e Ginnastica Fabriano sul podio romagnolo" [Forlì – Udinese dominates the championship. Armonia d’Abruzzo and Ginnastica Fabriano on the podium of Romagna]. www.federginnastica.it. 22 February 2025. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
- ^ "Folgaria - Poker assoluto di Raffaeli. Dragas incalza. Anche Paolini sul podio del Trentino. Finali in diretta su Sportface". Italian Gymnastics Federation (in Italian). 2025-06-14. Retrieved 2025-06-14.
- ^ "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. 2025-06-15. Retrieved 2025-06-22.
- ^ Capasso, Gerry (2026-01-26). "Italia, Farfalle in ritiro in Russia: nuova polemica nel mondo della ritmica, coinvolte Sofia Raffaeli e compagne" [Italy, the "Butterflies" are in training camp in Russia: a new controversy erupts in the world of rhythmic gymnastics, involving Sofia Raffaeli and her teammates.]. Virgilio Sport (in Italian). Retrieved 2026-01-27.
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