Noemi Batki
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Noemi Batki is an Italian diver
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...

. She is a member of the Italian National Diving Team and is sponsored by Trieste Tuffi.

She was born in Budapest
Budapest
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, Hungary, and at the age of 3 she moved to Belluno
Belluno
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, Italy, with her mother, Ibolya Nagy, a Hungarian platform diver who took part at Olympic Games
Olympic Games
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 in 1992 in Barcelona
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She won her first medal aged 16 at the Juniores European Championships in Aachen
Aachen
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, Germany, where she won the silver medal in the 3 metres springboard synchro competition, together with her mate Francesca Dallapè, and won the bronze medal in the platform event.

In spring 2005 Batki moved to Trieste
Trieste
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. In July 2005 she took part to the FINA World Championships in Montreal
Montreal
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, Canada, where, at her first world experience, she placed fifth in the 3 metres springboard synchro competition together with good results in the 1 meter and 3 meters springboard race. In the same year in Electrostal, Russia, she won her third juniors medal, a silver, in the 3 metres competition.

In 2006 she took part at European Championships in Budapest
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

, Hungary, where she placed 6th in the 3 metres synchro, and in the same year she won a silver medal at Arena Diving Champions Cup in Stockholm
Stockholm
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.

In 2007 she won a bronze medal at Arena Diving Champions Cup in the 3 metres synchro race and won the gold medal in the same event at the Italian Indoor Championships. She also took part to FINA World Championships in Melbourne
Melbourne
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, Australia, where she got good results such as the 11th place in 1 meter race and 9th place in 3 metres synchro race.

In August 2007 Batki won the gold medal at 24th Universiade in Bangkok
Bangkok
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, Thailand
Thailand
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, in the 1 metre competition, sharing the same score as the Ukrainian diver Maria Voloschenko.

In February 2008 Noemi gualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics
2008 Summer Olympics
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,a by placing 5th in the 3 metres synchro competition, together with her mate Francesca Dallapè
Francesca Dallapè
Francesca Dallapé is an Italian diver.Dallapé finished sixth with Noemi Batki in the synchronized 3 metre springboard event of the 2008 Olympic Games.-References:...

, at the FINA World Cup in Beijing. At the Olympics
Diving at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Diving competitions at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics were held from August 10 to August 23, at the Beijing National Aquatics Centre.- Competition format :The following events were contested by both men and women in Beijing:...

Batki and Dallapé placed 6th.
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