28 Facts About Carlotta Ferlito

Carlotta Ferlito was born on 15 February 1995 and is an Italian artistic gymnast.

Since starting her senior career in 2011, Ferlito has won two medals at the European Championships and represented her country at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics.

Carlotta Ferlito is the first Italian gymnast to compete the "Mustafina" on floor.

Carlotta Ferlito was born on 15 February 1995 in Catania, Sicily, to Roberta Parasilti and Massimo Carlotta Ferlito.

Carlotta Ferlito has an older brother, Gianpaolo, and an older sister, Ludovica.

Carlotta Ferlito began gymnastics when she was six years old.

In March 2009, Carlotta Ferlito competed at the annual City of Jesolo Trophy in Jesolo, Italy, for the first time.

Carlotta Ferlito placed second in the all-around with a total score of 54.850.

At her third City of Jesolo Trophy, and first as a senior, Carlotta Ferlito placed fifth in the all-around competition with a score of 55.600.

Carlotta Ferlito placed fifth at the 2011 European Championships in Berlin, with a score of 55.825.

Carlotta Ferlito placed second on vault, sixth on uneven bars, first on balance beam, and first on floor.

Carlotta Ferlito scored 54.332 in the team competition, in which Italy finished ninth, just missing the cut for guaranteed qualification to the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Carlotta Ferlito scored 14.066 on vault, 13.433 on uneven bars, 14.533 on balance beam, and 14.100 on floor, and the Italian team finished first, successfully qualifying.

In event finals, Carlotta Ferlito placed first on balance beam and fifth on floor.

At the 2013 European Championships in Moscow in April, Carlotta Ferlito finished fourth in the balance beam final and fifth in the floor exercise final.

Carlotta Ferlito placed 14th in the all-around in qualifications and 11th in the all-around final.

At the 2014 American Cup, Carlotta Ferlito finished eighth with an all-around score of 53.632.

Carlotta Ferlito was sick with mononucleosis for most of the rest of the year, and spent several months recovering from injuries and illness.

Carlotta Ferlito finished 10th on beam, missing the event final by about a tenth of a point.

On beam, with a score of 14.233, Carlotta Ferlito tied with Eythora Thorsdottir of the Netherlands.

Carlotta Ferlito was the only Italian competitor at the 2016 American Cup in Newark, where she finished fifth.

At the 2016 City of Jesolo Trophy on 20 March, Carlotta Ferlito fell on her head when her foot slipped off the end of the beam as she dismounted.

Carlotta Ferlito was taken to a hospital in Portogruaro, but scans revealed no spinal damage or other serious injuries.

At the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Carlotta Ferlito placed 27th in qualifications with a total score of 55.599, and twelfth in the all-around final with a score of 56.598.

Carlotta Ferlito won the gold medal on floor and bronze in the team event at the 2019 Summer Universiade.

From 2011 to 2013, Carlotta Ferlito was a star of the reality television series Gymnasts: Parallel Lives on MTV Italy, which follows the lives of different elite gymnasts who train in Milan.

In 2018, Carlotta Ferlito participated in the second season of the Italian version of the talent show Dance Dance Dance, aired on Fox Life.

Two years later, at the 2015 European Championships, Carlotta Ferlito was excluded from the all-around final because of the two-per-country rule and narrowly missed the beam final.