Maria Marconi
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Maria Marconi is a diver
from Italy
, who represented her native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics
. She won the qualification tournament for the 2008 Summer Olympics
, also twice won a bronze medal at the European Championships (2002 and 2006) and once a silver medal (2009). She was 6th in the 1 meter springboard event at the 2009 FINA World Championships.
She is a sister of divers Nicola Marconi
and Tommaso Marconi
.
Diving
Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...
from Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, who represented her native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Diving at the 2000 Summer Olympics
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, eight diving events were contested for the first time due to the inclusion of synchronized variants for each of the traditional events...
. She won the qualification tournament for the 2008 Summer Olympics
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...
, also twice won a bronze medal at the European Championships (2002 and 2006) and once a silver medal (2009). She was 6th in the 1 meter springboard event at the 2009 FINA World Championships.
She is a sister of divers Nicola Marconi
Nicola Marconi
Nicola Marconi is an Italian diver.He was born in Rome. At the 2000 Olympic Games he finished finished 26th in the 3 metre springboard event and eighth together with Donald Miranda in the synchronized 3 metre springboard event...
and Tommaso Marconi
Tommaso Marconi
Tommaso Marconi is an Italian diver.In the 3 metre platform synchronized event he won the gold medal at the 2004 European Championships and the bronze medals at the European Championships in 2002 and 2006...
.