Tania Cagnotto

Tania Cagnotto is an Italian diver born in Bolzano in 1985 to two Olympic divers, her father Giorgio Cagnotto having won four Olympic medals in the 1970s and 1980s. She competed at five Olympic Games and became the first Italian woman to win a medal at a diving World Championships, taking springboard medals at the world level from 2005 onward. She won the 1 metre springboard at the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, the first Italian woman to be world champion in diving, and finished her Olympic career at Rio de Janeiro in 2016 with a silver in the 3 metre synchronised event and a bronze in the individual 3 metre springboard. She is also a 20-time European champion. She retired in 2017 and went into coaching.