Maria Chiara Ramorino (born 13 April 1931) is an Italian

orienteer Orienteering is a group of sports that require navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a ...

and a former tennis player.

Biography

She won two medals at the

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. After her tennis career she became a proponent of the sport of Orienteering, and in 2008 wrote also a book of this theme. She was also a scientist, among the researchers who participated to the first Italian missions to

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in the early 1990s, and manager of the Italian team that compiled and promulgated the

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Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica, 1998–2006. The Ramorino Glacier in Antarctica was named after her in 2006 by

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Achievements

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Athlete profile
at FISO web site {{DEFAULTSORT:Ramorino, Maria Chiara 1931 births Living people Italian female tennis players Universiade medalists in tennis Italian orienteers Female orienteers FISU World University Games gold medalists for Italy Medalists at the 1959 Summer Universiade Sportspeople from Marche