Tania Cagnotto

Tania Cagnotto

Tania Cagnotto at the 2009 World Swimming Championships

Personal information

Nationality:

Italy

Discipline (s) :

Artistic / tower / synchronized jumping

Society:

Gruppi Sportivi Fiamme Gialle (Financial Guard)

Birthday:

May 15, 1985

Place of birth:

Bolzano

Size:

160 cm

Weight:

54 kg

Medals

Olympic games
silver	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Synchronous 3 m
bronze	2016 Rio de Janeiro	3 m
World championships
bronze	2005 Montreal	3 m
bronze	2007 Melbourne	3 m
bronze	2009 Rome	3 m
silver	2009 Rome	Synchronous 3 m
bronze	2011 Shanghai	1 m
silver	2013 Barcelona	1 m
silver	2013 Barcelona	Synchronous 3 m
gold	2015 Kazan	1 m
bronze	2015 Kazan	3 m
bronze	2015 Kazan	Synchron mix 3 m
European championships
silver	2002 Berlin	10 m
bronze	2002 Berlin	Synchronous 3 m
bronze	2004 Madrid	1 m
gold	2004 Madrid	10 m
gold	2008 Eindhoven	10 m
bronze	2008 Eindhoven	Synchronous 10 m
gold	2009 Turin	1 m
gold	2009 Turin	3 m
gold	2009 Turin	Synchronous 3 m
gold	2010 Budapest	1 m
gold	2010 Budapest	Synchronous 3 m
gold	2011 Turin	1 m
bronze	2011 Turin	3 m
gold	2011 Turin	Synchronous 3 m
silver	2012 Eindhoven	1 m
gold	2012 Eindhoven	Synchronous 3 m
gold	2013 Rostock	1 m
silver	2013 Rostock	3 m
gold	2013 Rostock	Synchronous 3 m
gold	2014 Berlin	1 m
gold	2014 Berlin	Synchronous 3 m
silver	2014 Berlin	3 m
gold	2015 Rostock	1 m
gold	2015 Rostock	3 m
gold	2015 Rostock	Synchronous 3 m
gold	2016 London	1 m
gold	2016 London	3 m
silver	2016 London	Synchron mix 3 m
gold	2016 London	Synchronous 3 m

Tania Cagnotto (born May 15, 1985 in Bozen , South Tyrol ) is an Italian diver . She is world champion, two-time Olympic medalist and 20-time European champion and with 29 medals (20 gold medals, 5 silver medals and 4 bronze medals) ahead of Dmitri Sautin, she is the most successful water diver at European championships. Her father Giorgio Cagnotto , by whom she is trained, and her mother Carmen Casteiner were together with Klaus Dibiasi the most successful high divers in Italy in the 1970s.

Career

After having been very successful in the Italian junior sector, Cagnotto began to focus on European competitions. At the European Championships in Berlin in 2002 she made her breakthrough by winning the silver medal from the 10-meter tower and bronze in synchronized jumping with Maria Marconi from the 3-meter board. In 2004 she became the European champion of the 10-meter tower at the championships in Madrid . She won the bronze medal from the 1-meter board. On March 21, 2008, she confirmed her gold medal in this discipline at the European Championships in Eindhoven by winning the 10-meter tower. She won the bronze medal in synchronized jumping from the tower.

She is the most successful high diver at European level. From 2009 to 2016 she won the gold medal from the synchronous 3-meter board eight times in a row at European Championships with her partner Francesca Dallapé .

At the World Championships in Montreal in 2005, Cagnotto was the first Italian woman jumper to win a medal with bronze from the 3-meter board. Since then, she has won at least one medal at each subsequent World Cup. So she reached on March 24, 2007 at the World Championships in Melbourne again third place. At the World Championships in Barcelona 2013 she missed the gold medal from the 1-meter board by 0.10 points, but won silver, as well as from the 3-meter board with Francesca Dallapé. At the World Championships in Kazan in 2015, she finally won her first gold medal at world championships from the 1-meter board.

At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , she finished fifth from the 3-meter board. With 349.20 total points, she set her best performance, and for the first time she received more than 80 points for a jump.

At the Olympic Games in London , she finished fourth twice. In the individual jumping from the 3-meter board, she missed third place by 0.20 points with 362.20 points. In addition, she was fourth in synchronized jumping from the 3-meter board with Francesca Dallapé.

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , she won the silver medal in the 3-meter board synchronized jumping (with Francesca Dallapé) and the bronze medal in the 3-meter board individual jumping, where she achieved a new personal best with 372.80.

More results

Olympic games

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