Valentina Rodini

Valentina Rodini
Valentina Rodini at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
nation	Italy
birthday	January 28, 1995
place of birth	Cremona ,  Italy
size	167 cm
Weight	54 kg
Career
status	active
Medal table
MS medals 1 × 0 × 0 × U23 World Cup medals 2 × 1 × 1 × JWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Mediterranean Games gold Tarragona 2018 LW1x  U23 world championships silver 2014 Varese LW4x gold 2015 Plovdiv LW4x bronze 2016 Rotterdam LW2x gold 2017 Plovdiv LW4x  Junior World Championships gold Trakai 2013 W4x

Valentina Rodini (born January 28, 1995 in Cremona ) is an Italian rower. She took part in rowing at the Summer Olympics for Italy in 2016 .

Career

In 2012 she took part in the Junior World Rowing Championships for the first time in her career . In Plovdiv she formed the double fours with Stefanie Gobbi , Carmela Pappalardo and Veronica Calabrese at the Junior World Championships in 2012 and they were able to qualify for the A final. There they took sixth and last place. A year later she took part in the 2013 Junior Rowing World Championships in Trakai , where she was part of the double fours together with Stefania Gobbi, as in the previous year. The crew of the boat also included Valentina Iseppi and Chiara Ondoli . Together they qualified for the A-final and were able to become junior world champions with almost a second ahead of the US and German boat champions.

The following year, Valentina Rodini first took part in the U23 rowing world championships and in Varese together with Serena Lo Bue , Greta Masserano and Giorgia Lo Bue in the lightweight double sculls. They reached the A final directly over the prelim and won the silver medal behind the boat from Germany and ahead of the boat from Switzerland. Both Valentina Rodin and Greta Masserano were selected for the Italian lightweight double sculls, which competed at the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam . In addition to the two of them, Eleonora Trivella and Giulia Pollini were also part of the boat's crew. Together they were able to qualify for the A-final, where they finished the competition in fifth place.

The following year she made her debut in Varese at the Rowing World Cup , where she competed with Eleonora Trivella in the lightweight double scull. As the second Italian team, they could only qualify for the C-final and finished fourth there, so that they finally finished the competition in 16th place. After her debut in the Rowing World Cup, she took part in the U23 Rowing World Championships in 2015 in Plovdiv , where she was part of the Italian lightweight double sculls alongside Nicole Sala , Greta Masserano and Giorgia Lo Bue . They were able to qualify for the A-final directly over the preliminary run and won the final with more than three seconds ahead of the boats on France and Germany.

As newly crowned U23 world champions, they competed almost entirely on Lac d'Aiguebelette in Savoy at the 2015 World Championships . The only change was that Eleonora Trivella was part of the crew for Giorgia Lo Bue . They missed the qualification for the A-final and were only allowed to start in the B-final, where they finished second. As a result, they finished the competition in eighth place. The following year she again took part in the World Cup of rowers in Varese , where she competed with Giulia Pollini . The two were able to qualify as the second Italian team only for the B final and took fourth place there, so that they finished the competition in tenth place.

She competed in the 2016 European Rowing Championships in Lucerne , where she competed in a single for Italy. She was eliminated in the semifinals, where she only finished sixth in her race. In the third competition of the Rowing World Cup , she started together with Federica Cesarini and were able to reach the A-final together in Poznan , where they took sixth place. Italy failed to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in both singles and lightweight double sculls . As a result of the findings from the McLaren Report , the Russian team was stripped of its starting place in the women's lightweight double scull and Italy was the first to be awarded this starting place and the Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano awarded Valentina Rodini and Laura for this competition at the Summer Olympics Milani nominated.

In Rio de Janeiro Valentina Rodini and Laura Milani could only reach the C-final in the lightweight double scull , which they could decide for themselves. As a result, they finished the 2016 Summer Olympics in 13th place. After the Olympic Games, she took part in the U23 rowing world championships in Rotterdam together with Federica Cesarini , with whom she also competed in the Rowing World Cup . In the lightweight double scull they reached the final and took 3rd place behind the host's boat and the New Zealand boat, thus winning the bronze medal. A year later, they started in the same constellation in Račice u Štětí on the Račice u Štětí rowing channel at the 2017 European Championships in lightweight double sculls. They were able to qualify for the A-final directly over the preliminary run and took sixth place in the final.

After the European Championships , she competed in the U23 rowing world championships in Plovdiv , where she was part of the crew of the lightweight four-four alongside Asja Maregotto , Paola Piazzolla and Giovanna Schettino . They reached the pre-run for the A final and secured the U23 world championship title in this discipline with almost six seconds ahead of the boats from the Netherlands and the boats from Germany. At the 2017 World Rowing Championships , which were held near Sarasota and Bradenton , she formed the lightweight double scull with Allegra Francalacci . They missed the A-final and had to compete in the B-final, where they finished second. As a result, the two finished the competition in eighth place.

In Linz , Valentina Rodini took part in the second event of the Rowing World Cup and started there together with Federica Cesarini . The two were able to qualify for the A-final, where they won the lightweight double scull competition with more than a second advantage over the boats from the Netherlands and Romania. Shortly thereafter, she took part for Italy in the Mediterranean Games 2018 , which were held in the Spanish city of Tarragona in Catalonia , and started there in the lightweight single and secured the title there ahead of the Greek Thomais Emmanouilidou and the Spanish Natalia Gómez .

In Glasgow, Valentina Rodini took part in the 2018 European Championships , which were part of the European Championships 2018 , with Federica Cesarini in the lightweight double scull. The two were able to qualify for the A final and missed a medal there with fifth place. Together they also took part in the 2018 World Rowing Championships , which were held in Plovdiv , where they missed the A final in the lightweight double scull. They won the B final with almost two seconds and finished the competition in seventh place.

The following year, Valentina Rodini took part in the 2019 European Championships in Lucerne together with Federica Cesarini . In the lightweight double scull they reached the A final. There they only took sixth and last place. Before the rowing world championships , the two competed in the second competition of the rowing world cup . They were able to reach the A-final in Poznan , finishing second behind the boat from New Zealand and ahead of the Chinese boat. At the 2019 World Championships , which were held in Linz , they missed the A final in the lightweight double scull. But they won the B final and ended the competition in seventh place.

Web links

Commons : Valentina Rodini  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Valentina Rodini at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information sheet Valentina Rodini on canottaggioservice.canottaggio.net, accessed on March 24, 2020