QUADARELLA Simona

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	400Free	800Free
2014	Nanjing, CHN	6th (4:15.05)	1st (8:35.39)

World Championships

Year	Location	800Free	1500Free	4x200Free
2019	Gwangju, KOR	2nd (8:14.99)	1st (15:40.89)	-
2017	Budapest, HUN	7th (8:26.50)	3rd (15:53.86)	H (8:02.82)

European Championships

Year	Location	400Free	800Free	1500Free	4x200Free
2020	Budapest, HUN	1st (4:04.66)	1st (8:20.23)	1st (15:53.59)	3rd (7:56.72)
2018	Glasgow, GBR	1st (4:03.35)	1st (8:16.45)	1st (15:51.61)	-

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	400Free	800Free	4x200Free
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	H (4:04.94)	2nd (8:08.03)	6th (7:43.18)

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Squiddy [after an animation character], Quadabella, Gnappez, Veleno. (vanityfair.it, 12 Nov 2020; gazzetta.it, 21 Aug 2018)

Going to the cinema. (vanityfair.it, 24 Apr 2019)

Athlete, Student

Economics - Link Campus University, Rome, ITA

Partner Alessandro Fusco

English, Italian

CC Aniene [Rome, ITA]

Christian Minotti [club], ITA, from 2010

Her partner Alessandro Fusco has also competed in swimming at national level in Italy. (Alessandro Fusco Instagram profile, 24 Apr 2021)

She took up swimming at age six and began competing at age eight with the Delta Roma Sports Club in Italy. (newsmondo.it, 05 Dec 2019; vanityfair.it, 24 Apr 2019)

Her father coached swimming. "Both my dad and grandfather have a great passion for this sport. Dad practised it at a competitive level until high school. My parents took me and my sister to the swimming pool from an early age. Not so much because they aspired to competitive practice, but because they simply wanted us to learn to swim, so that we would have no problems or fear at sea." (vanityfair.it, 24 Apr 2019; arenawaterinstinct.com, 17 Dec 2014)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (alimentazione.gazzetta.it, 17 May 2021)

She trains six days a week, with double sessions four days a week, while incorporating gym work twice a week. (alimentazione.gazzetta.it, 17 May 2021)

Winning gold in 1500m and 800m freestyle at the 2014 European Junior Championships in Dordrecht, Netherlands, and claiming gold in 800m freestyle at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, People's Republic of China. (vanityfair.it, 24 Apr 2019)

Her older sister Erica. (vanityfair.it, 12 Nov 2020; arenawaterinstinct.com, 17 Dec 2014)

Her father. (vanityfair.it, 24 Apr 2019)

She listens to pop music before races. (vanityfair.it, 24 Apr 2019)

"What pushes me forward is the desire of victory. Not for the victory in itself but for what it makes me feel, a big emotion." (gazzetta.it, 28 Jul 2020)

In 2019 she received a sporting achievement award from the mayor of Rome, Italy. It was given in recognition of her performance at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, Republic of Korea, where she won gold in 1500m freestyle and silver in 800m freestyle. (SportsDeskOnline, 09 Jun 2021; comune.roma.it, 28 Oct 2019)