1. Vanessa Ferrari was the 2006 World All-Around Champion and competed for Italy at the 2008,2012,2016, and 2020 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal on floor exercise in 2020.
58 Facts About Vanessa Ferrari
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In doing so, Ferrari became the first Italian to win an individual Olympic medal in Women's Artistic Gymnastics, and the first medallist for the Italian women's team since the 1928 Summer Olympics.
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Vanessa Ferrari is a five-time World medallist and eight-time European medallist, and is currently the most decorated Italian gymnast of all time.
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Vanessa Ferrari first rose to prominence as a 13-year-old at the 2004 Junior European Championships where she won the silver medal in the all around competition with a score of 36.525 behind Steliana Nistor of Romania.
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Vanessa Ferrari won two bronze medals with the Italian team and on the balance beam with a score of 9.175.
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Still in the junior ranks for 2005, Vanessa Ferrari turned in more fine performances at the European Youth Olympics in Italy and the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almeria, Spain, winning the all around gold medal at both competitions as well.
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Vanessa Ferrari won vault, beam and floor at the latter as well as the silver medal on the uneven bars.
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Vanessa Ferrari led the Italian team to win gold with an all around score of 60.750.
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In October Vanessa Ferrari competed at the 2006 World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark.
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Vanessa Ferrari won the all around final with a score of 61.025.
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Vanessa Ferrari won the all around final with a score of 61.075.
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Vanessa Ferrari contributed scores of 15.100 on vault and 14.775 on uneven bars toward the Italian team's fourth-place finish.
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Vanessa Ferrari competed at the 2008 European Championships in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
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Vanessa Ferrari contributed an all around score of 59.400 toward the Italian team's fourth-place finish.
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Vanessa Ferrari placed ninth in the all around final with a score of 55.175 and second in the floor final with a score of 14.675.
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In June Vanessa Ferrari underwent a bursectomy to remove excess fluid from behind her Achilles tendon and would likely miss the 2009 World Championships.
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Towards the end of April 2010, Vanessa Ferrari competed at the European Championships in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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Vanessa Ferrari contributed an all around score of 55.525 toward the Italian team's fifth-place finish.
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In October 2010, Vanessa Ferrari competed at the World Championships in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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Vanessa Ferrari contributed scores of 13.966 on vault, 14.066 on uneven bars, and 14.333 on floor toward the Italian team's eighth-place finish.
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Vanessa Ferrari placed sixth in the all around final with a score of 55.475 and eighth in the uneven bars final with a score of 12.850.
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In October 2011, Vanessa Ferrari competed at the World Championships in Tokyo, Japan.
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Vanessa Ferrari contributed an all around score of 56.198 toward the Italian team's ninth-place finish.
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Vanessa Ferrari contributed an all around score of 56.532 toward the Italian team's first-place finish, which meant that they would qualify a full team to the Olympics.
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Vanessa Ferrari contributed scores of 14.266 on vault, 14.466 on uneven bars, and 14.400 on floor toward the Italian team's third-place finish.
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Vanessa Ferrari contributed toward the Italian team's first-place finish; in event finals, she placed first on all-around scoring 56.132, first on floor scoring 13.900 and third on balance beam scoring 14.166.
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Vanessa Ferrari is the most decorated Italian athlete at the Mediterranean Games with eight gold medals.
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At the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Vanessa Ferrari finished sixth in the all-around and fourth on balance beam.
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Vanessa Ferrari used an instrumental version of Caro Emerald's Tangled Up as her floor exercise music.
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Vanessa Ferrari began 2014 competing at the first Italian Serie A where she helped Brixia win the team gold.
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At the 2014 World Championships in Nanning, China, Vanessa Ferrari helped Italy finish fifth in the team final.
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Individually, Vanessa Ferrari finished sixth in the all-around and fifth on floor exercise.
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Vanessa Ferrari next competed at the Stuttgart World Cup where she finished fourth despite having the flu.
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Vanessa Ferrari finished the year off at the Glasgow World Cup where she finished sixth.
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In 2015 Vanessa Ferrari competed at the first two Italian Serie A competitions.
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Later that month Vanessa Ferrari competed at the 2015 World Championships.
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Vanessa Ferrari helped Italy qualify to the team finals and individually she qualified to the all-around final but withdrew, which allowed teammate Tea Ugrin to compete.
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Vanessa Ferrari finished in sixteenth place in the all-around final and fourth in the floor final, just missing the podium in the latter, as she had at the 2012 Olympics.
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Vanessa Ferrari spent the majority of 2017 recovering from tendon pain.
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Vanessa Ferrari competed at the final Italian Serie A in September where she scored second highest on floor for the senior field and was named to the team to compete at the 2017 World Championships in Montreal.
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Vanessa Ferrari was one of many gymnasts who were injured while warming up or competing at the 2017 World Championships, following Rebeca Andrade of Brazil, Larisa Iordache of Romania, Ragan Smith of the United States, and Kohei Uchimura of Japan.
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Vanessa Ferrari spent 2018 recovering from her injury sustained at the 2017 World Championships.
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Vanessa Ferrari announced that she would try to qualify for the 2020 Olympics through the apparatus world cup circuit.
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Vanessa Ferrari returned to competition in February 2019 at the Melbourne World Cup.
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Vanessa Ferrari only competed on balance beam and floor exercise; she qualified to the floor final in first place.
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Vanessa Ferrari later won gold on floor exercise, finishing over a point ahead of second-place finisher Paula Mejias of Puerto Rico.
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Directly after the Baku World Cup, Vanessa Ferrari traveled to Doha for the Doha World Cup where she qualified to the floor exercise final in seventh place.
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Vanessa Ferrari made her return to the all-around at the 3rd Italian Serie A of 2021, over four years after her last all-around performance at the 2016 Olympic Games.
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Vanessa Ferrari placed first in the all-around and helped Brixia place first as a team.
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Vanessa Ferrari later withdrew from the all-around final as a precaution.
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Vanessa Ferrari competed at the Doha World Cup where she placed first in the all-around.
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Weeks before the start of the Games, Giorgia Villa was injured and Vanessa Ferrari was chosen to replace her on the four-person Italian team.
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Vanessa Ferrari represented Italy at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan alongside Asia D'Amato, Alice D'Amato, and Martina Maggio.
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Vanessa Ferrari placed second in the final behind gold medalist Jade Carey of the US and ahead of bronze medalists Mai Murakami of Japan and Angelina Melnikova of Russia with a score of 14.200.
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In competing at her fourth Olympic Games, Vanessa Ferrari became the fourth female artistic gymnast to become a four-time Olympian following four-time Olympian Olga Tass, eight-time Olympian Oksana Chusovitina, and five-time Olympian Daniele Hypolito.
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Vanessa Ferrari intended to return to competition in 2024 with the hopes of making her fifth Olympic team.
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On October 9,2024 Vanessa Ferrari announced her retirement from the sport.
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Vanessa Ferrari has one eponymous skill listed in the Code of Points.