Licia Macchini (11 July 1930 – 29 November 2018)
was an

artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...

. She competed at the

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and

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

. She was an Italian gymnast born in Lodi. She was a member of the Fanfulla club under coach Riccardo Fraschini. She was Italian champion in the all-around in 1950, but her greatest sporting success came at the 1950 World Championships in Basel, when she won two bronze medals. She won the first bronze medal individually in the balance beam and the second with the Italian team.

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1930 births 2018 deaths Italian female artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 1948 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for Italy Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships 20th-century Italian women {{Italy-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub