Carla Marangoni

Carla Marangoni,^[1] (13 November 1915 – 18 January 2018) was an Italian gymnast who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. She was born in Pavia as Carla, but she is usually (mistakenly) mentioned in the official statistics as Clara. In 1928, she won the silver medal as member of the Italian gymnastics team and was therefore among the first Italian women to win an Olympic medal. She was also the last surviving athlete from the 1928 Summer Games.^[2][3] Marangoni died on 18 January 2018 at the age of 102 years.^[4][5][6] She was the 6th and last youngest medalist from the Olympic Games (12 years and 270 days) until the silver medal in skateboarding from the Brazilian Rayssa Leal in 2021 (13 years and 203 days).^[7]

Carla Marangoni

Personal information
Birth name	Carla Marangoni
Born	(1915-11-13)13 November 1915 Pavia, Kingdom of Italy
Died	18 January 2018(2018-01-18) (aged 102) Pavia, Italy
Medal record Women's gymnastics Representing  Italy Olympic Games 1928 Amsterdam Team

See also

• List of centenarians (sportspeople)

References

1. "Carla Marangoni". CONI.it (in Italian). Italian National Olympic Committee. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
2. Salvini, Mario (28 July 2012). "Londra1: L'Olimpiade di Carla" [London1: Carla's Olympics]. gazzetta.it (in Italian). La Gazzetta dello Sport. Carla Marangoni è l'unica medagliata vivente di Amsterdam 1928 al mondo. [Carla Marangoni is the only living Amsterdam 1928 medalist in the world.]
3. "Lo sport italiano festeggia i 100 anni della Marangoni, la medaglia olimpica più longeva del mondo" [Italian sport celebrates the 100th anniversary of Marangoni, the longest-lived Olympic medalist in the world]. CONI.it (in Italian). Italian National Olympic Committee. 13 November 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
4. "Olympics - 1928 silver medallist Marangoni dies at 102". uk.reuters.com. Reuters. Archived from the original on 19 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018. Carla Marangoni, whose silver medal at the 1928 Olympic games made her the oldest living Olympic medallist, has died at the age of 102, the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) said on Friday.
5. "E' morta Carla Marangoni: aveva 102 anni, era la medaglia olimpica più longeva al mondo" [Carla Marangoni died: she was 102 years old, she was the longest-lived Olympic medalist in the world]. repubblica.it (in Italian). 19 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
6. "Ginnastica: addio a Carla Marangoni. A 102 anni la medaglia olimpica più antica" [Gymnastics: goodbye to Carla Marangoni. At 102, the oldest Olympic medalist]. gazzetta.it (in Italian). 19 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
7. "Tóquio 2020: Rayssa Leal é a medalhista mais jovem dos Jogos em 85 anos; conheça os prodígios" [Tokyo 2020: Rayssa Leal is the youngest medalist at the Games at 85 years; meet the prodigies]. globo.com (in Brazilian Portuguese). 26 July 2021. Archived from the original on 27 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021. Aquela mesma equipe italiana vice-campeã olímpica tinha outras duas medalhistas com 12 anos de idade: Ines Vercesi (12 anos e 217 dias) e Clara Marangoni (12 anos e 270 dias) — respectivamente a quarta e sexta atletas mais jovens da história dos Jogos. [That same Olympic runner-up Italian team had two other 12-year-old medalists: Ines Vercesi (12 years and 217 days) and Clara Marangoni (12 years and 270 days) — respectively the fourth and sixth youngest athletes in the history of the Games.]

External links

• Carla Marangoni at the Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (in Italian)
• Carla Marangoni at Olympedia
• Carla Marangoni at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Clara Marangoni at Olympics.com
• Clara Marangoni at databaseOlympics.com (archived)