Lucrezia Ruggiero (born 7 June 2000) is an Italian artistic swimmer. She won one gold medal each at the

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in the mixed duet technical routine and the mixed duet free routine. At the

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, she won gold medals in the mixed duet technical routine and the mixed duet free routine.

Background

Ruggiero was born 7 June 2000 in

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, where she trains and competes for sports club

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."Lucrezia Ruggiero"
(in Italian). ''

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''. Retrieved 23 July 2022. She has been training with her professional artistic swimming partner for mixed duet events,

Giorgio Minisini Giorgio Minisini (born 9 March 1996) is an Italian synchronised swimmer. He won two bronze medals in the inaugural mixed duet competition at the 2015 World Championships. He was world champion at the FINA World Aquatics Championships in the mix ...

, since 2019.

Career

2021 Artistic Swimming World Series

At the 2021 FINA Artistic Swimming World Series leg held in June in

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, Ruggiero and her partner

won the silver medal in the mixed duet free routine with a score of 88.6332 points."FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2021 – Super Final – Leg 1: Results Mixed Duet Free"
FINA. 13 June 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2022. For their performance, the duo chose to choreograph their routine to the song "

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."World Series. Minisini-Ruggiero secondi nel libero del mixed"
(in Italian). ''

''. 13 June 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2022.

2022 World Aquatics Championships

On the second day of artistic swimming at the

, contested in June in

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, Ruggiero and her partner Giorgio Minisini scored 88.5734 points in the preliminaries of the mixed duet technical routine to qualify for the final ranking first. FINA (18 June 2022)
"19th FINA World Championships Budapest (HUN): Mixed Duet Technical Preliminary Results"
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''. Retrieved 23 July 2022.OA Sport (18 June 2022)
"Sincronizzato: Lucrezia Ruggiero e Giorgio Minisini nettamente primi dopo il duo tecnico al Mondiali di Budapest"
(in Italian). ''

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''. Retrieved 23 July 2022. Day four, 20 June, the duo won the gold medal with a score of 89.2685 points, finishing 2.6746 points ahead of silver medalists Tomoka Sato and Yotaro Sato of

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and 2.8260 points ahead of bronze medalists Shi Haoyu and Zhang Yiyao of

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. FINA (20 June 2022)
"19th FINA World Championships Budapest (HUN): Mixed Duet Technical Final Results"
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''. Retrieved 23 July 2022."Dal sincro un oro e un bronzo per I'talia"
(in Italian). ''

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''. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 23 July 2022."Mondiali di nuoto, Minisini e Ruggiero medaglia d'oro nel sincro: «Nessuno avrebbe potuto fermarci»"
(in Italian). ''

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''. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 23 July 2022."Mondiali Budapest, Giorgio Minisini e Lucrezia Ruggiero oro nel duo misto del sincro. E dal libero combinato arriva il bronzo"
(in Italian). ''

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''. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 23 July 2022. Four days later, in the preliminaries of the mixed duet free routine, she and Minisini advanced to the final with a score of 90.5000 points. FINA (24 June 2022)
"19th FINA World Championships Budapest (HUN): Mixed Duet Free Preliminary Results"
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''. Retrieved 23 July 2022. The following day, 25 June, they won the gold medal with a score of 90.9667 points and choreography to music by Italian band Måneskin in the theme of " Risorgimento".Arcobelli, Stefano (25 June 2022)
"Ruggiero-Minisini un oro che luccica. E per Giorgio è triplette mondiale"
(in Italian). ''

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''. Retrieved 23 July 2022.Croes, Maureen (25 June 2022)
"Italy and Ukraine win last two gold medals; Italy overall winner"
FINA. Retrieved 23 July 2022."Minisini e Ruggiero nella storia: oro anche nel 'libero'"
(in Italian). ''

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''. 25 June 2022. Retrieved 23 July 2022."Minisini-Ruggiero, oro nel duo libero misto. Italia d'argento nell'esercizio highlight"
(in Italian). '' Sky Sport''. 25 June 2022. Retrieved 23 July 2022."Swimming, artistic swimming wave goodbye on day 8 of Budapest worlds"
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''. 26 June 2022. Retrieved 23 July 2022.

2022 European Aquatics Championships

For her first of two events at the

, held in

in August, Ruggiero and her partner Giorgio Minisini won the gold medal in the mixed duet free routine with a score of 89.7333 points, placing over four points ahead of silver medalists Pau Ribes and Emma García of Spain.

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(13 August 2022)
"European Aquatics Championships Roma 2022: Results Mixed Duet Free Routine"
''Microplus''. Retrieved 13 August 2022.Fumagalli, Davide (13 August 2022)
"Nuoto artistico, Europei: Minisini ancora d'oro! Trionfo con Lucrezia Ruggiero nel duo misto libero"
(in Italian). ''

''. Retrieved 13 August 2022."Europei nuoto, oro all'Italia nel sincro con Minisini-Ruggiero. Bronzo con Cerruti-Ferro"
(in Italian). '' Leggo''. 13 August 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022. In her second event, she and Giorgio Minisini won the gold medal in the mixed duet technical routine, this time outscoring the Spaniards Pau Ribes and Emma García by over five points with a final mark of 89.3679 points.

(15 August 2022)
"European Aquatics Championships Roma 2022: Results Mixed Duet Technical Final"
''Microplus''. Retrieved 15 August 2022."Giorgio Minisini, ecco il quarto oro: vince di nuovo con Lucrezia Ruggiero, campioni Europei nel duo misto tecnico"
(in Italian). ''

''. 15 August 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022."Minisini-Ruggiero d'oro anche nel duo tecnico"
(in Italian). ''

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2023 Artistic Swimming World Cup

For the stop of the 2023 Artistic Swimming World Cup held in March in Markham, Canada, Ruggiero and her partner

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won the gold medal in the women's duet free routine with a final mark of 321.2667 points, outscoring the silver medalists from Ukraine by over 25 points and the bronze medalists from Israel by over 35 points."World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup – Markham 2023: Results Women Duet Free"
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''. 18 March 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.OA Sport (18 March 2023)
"Nuoto artistico, Coppa del Mondo 2023: Cerruti-Ruggiero trionfano nel duo libero femminile"
(in Italian). ''

''. Retrieved 18 March 2023.

International championships

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ruggiero, Lucrezia 2000 births Living people Italian synchronized swimmers Artistic swimmers of Fiamme Oro Swimmers from Rome World Aquatics Championships medalists in synchronised swimming Artistic swimmers at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships European Aquatics Championships medalists in synchronised swimming 21st-century Italian women Artistic swimmers at the 2023 European Games European Games gold medalists for Italy European Games silver medalists for Italy European Games bronze medalists for Italy European Games medalists in synchronised swimming