DEIDDA Francesca

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	5th (183.381)

World Championships

Year	Location	Duet TR	Duet FR	Team TR	Team FR	FR Combination	Teams Highlights
2019	Gwangju, KOR	-	-	5th (91.041)	5th (91.600)	5th (91.466)	F (91.733)
2017	Budapest, HUN	6th	6th	5th (90.761)	5th (91.700)	4th (91.666)	-
2015	Kazan, RUS	7th	6th	7th (88.051)	6th (91.467)	7th (89.733)	-
2013	Barcelona, ESP	8th	6th	6th	5th	6th (89.550)	-
2011	Shanghai, CHN	-	-	-	-	6th (90.550)	-

European Championships

Year	Location	Duet TR	Duet FR	Team TR	Team FR	FR Combination
2018	Glasgow, GBR	3rd (89.751)	3rd	3rd (90.355)	3rd (92.233)	2nd (92.600)

Legend
TR - Technical Routine, FR - Free Routine, PR - Preliminary Round, X - Mixed

Travel. (nuotosardegna.it, 15 Feb 2020)

Police Athlete

Partner Valerio Rizzo.

Italian

Promogest Coop Cagliari [ITA] / Fiamme Oro [ITA]

Anna Abate [Promogest Coop Cagliari], ITA; Patrizia Giallombardo [national], ITA

Her partner Valerio Rizzo has represented Italy in water polo and competed at the 2009 and 2007 world championships. (SportsDeskOnline, 24 Jun 2021; Instagram profile, 23 Jun 2021)

She took up the sport at age seven. (lanuovasardegna.gelocal.it, 04 Jan 2016)

She enjoyed watching the artistic swimmers at her swimming club and asked her mother if she could try the sport. "At the beginning it was just for fun, but over time I realised that I might have some talent. I fell in love with the sport because in the water I can express my whole self better than with words." (nuotosardegna.it, 15 Feb 2020; swimmerlandblog.it, 30 Mar 2018; lanuovasardegna.gelocal.it, 04 Jan 2016)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Instagram profile, 12 Jun 2021)

On a typical day she has a gym session at 08:00 and then trains in the pool from 09:30 to 13:00 and 15:00 to 18:30. (nuotosardegna.it, 15 Feb 2020)

Competing at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (swimmerlandblog.it, 30 Mar 2018)

Coach Anna Abate. (swimmerlandblog.it, 30 Mar 2018)

If the first routine goes well at a competition, she repeats the same warm-up she did for every routine at the same event. (swimmerlandblog.it, 30 Mar 2018)

"The team is the most important thing, and we all have to pull in the same direction to achieve the best result. Creating relationships outside of the pool is important so we can know each other better and compete as if we are a single person." (swimmerlandblog.it, 30 Mar 2018)