MICHELI Elena

World Championships

Year	Location	Individual	Team
2021	Cairo, EGY	5	6
2019	Budapest, HUN	2	4
2016	Moscow, RUS	56	11

European Championships

Year	Location	Individual	Team
2019	Bath, GBR	27	8

World Cup Final

Year	Location	Individual
2021	Hungary	24
2019	Tokyo, JPN	7

World Cup - Overview per season since 2017

Year	Event	Standings	Three best ranks per season
2021	Individual	40th	1 x 18th, 1 x 32nd
2019	Individual	21st	1 x 11th, 1 x 13th, 1 x 35th
2018	Individual	46th	1 x 9th, 1 x 45th
2017	Individual	67th	1 x 27th, 1 x 59th

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
9	2018	Individual	Los Angeles, CA, USA	1303
11	2019	Individual	Prague, CZE	1338
13	2019	Individual	Szekesfehervar, HUN	1325
18	2021	Individual	Sofia, BUL	1299
27	2017	Individual	Los Angeles, CA, USA	1182
32	2021	Individual	Budapest, HUN	1066
35	2019	Individual	Cairo, EGY	1194
45	2018	Individual	Kecskemet, HUN	951
59	2017	Individual	Kecskemet, HUN	913

Junior World Championships

Year	Location	Individual	Team	Relay W
2018	Kladno, CZE	1	1	3
2017	Szekesfehervar, HUN	12	1	2
2016	Cairo, EGY	10	-	-

Legend
M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Watching TV, going to the mountains, skiing, listening to music, shopping. (sportface.it, 02 Dec 2019)

Athlete

Italian

CS Carabinieri [Italy]

Andrea Giommoni [national, fencing]; Gianluca Montecchia [national, fencing]; Stefano Giommoni [national, fencing]; Stefano Mattei [national, equestrian]; Elena Panetti [national, equestrian]; Alessandro Mencarelli [national, swimming]; Matteo Smith [national, laser run]

Her brothers Roberto and Giorgio also compete in modern pentathlon and have represented Italy at junior level. (SportsDeskOnline, 10 Jul 2020; uipmworld.org, 24 Jul 2019, 23 Jun 2020)

She took up the sport at age six. She began competing in 2013. (uipmworld.org, 23 Jun 2020)

She and her siblings took up modern pentathlon after being encouraged by their swimming coach. "At the beginning is was just a hobby. When we began to go further it became a big effort. With the first national and international podiums, I realised that this sport would be the main focus in my life." (Sportface news YouTube channel, 28 Nov 2019; sportface.it, 02 Dec 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sportface.it, 02 Dec 2019)

She mainly trains in running and swimming. She then alternates between fencing or horse riding. In the afternoons she trains at the gym. She does her training at the Acqua Acetosa training centre in Rome, Italy. She trains in fencing at Club Scherma Roma. (Sportface news YouTube channel, 28 Nov 2019; sportface.it, 02 Dec 2019; Club Scherma Roma Facebook page, 06 Sep 2019)

Winning a silver medal at the 2019 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, and winning the bronze medal with her brother Roberto in the mixed event at the 2018 European Junior Championships in El Prat de Llobregat, Spain. (Sportface news YouTube channel, 28 Nov 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 22 Dec 2019; sportface.it, 02 Dec 2019)

Italian swimmer Federica Pellegrini. (Sportface news YouTube channel, 28 Nov 2019)

"The key to everything is to have fun. Besides, thanks to pentathlon, I have learned to be persistent, to give my best and to never quit." (sportface.it, 02 Dec 2019)

She was named Junior Modern Pentathlete of the Year in 2018 by the International Modern Pentathlon Union [UPIM]. (sslazio.org, 11 Nov 2018)