Giorgia Villa

2015 - 2017

Villa made her international debut at the 2015 City of Jesolo Trophy as part of Italy's Young Dreams team.^[3]

In 2017 Villa competed at the City of Jesolo Trophy. During her floor exercise routine she tore her achilles tendon and was unable to finish the competition.^[4] Villa later competed at the Italian National Championships where she placed first on uneven bars, the only event she competed on.^[5]

2018

Villa competed at the City of Jesolo Trophy in April. Italy placed first in the team competition and individually Villa placed second in the all-around behind Vladislava Urazova of Russia, and fourth on vault and uneven bars.^[6] Villa competed at the 2018 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships where Italy won team gold. Individually Villa won all-around and balance beam gold, and vault and floor exercise silver.^[7][8] She was later selected to represent Italy at the 2018 Youth Olympics taking place in Buenos Aires, Argentina.^[9] At the Youth Olympic Games she qualified to every event final, qualifying first on uneven bars and vault, second in the individual all-around and on floor exercise, and seventh on balance beam.^[10] In the all-around final she was able to win the gold medal after top qualifier Anastasia Bachynska of Ukraine suffered mistakes on both balance beam and floor exercise. She was also the first all-around champion since the Youth Olympic Games inception that was not from Russia.^[11] She continued her strong performances into the event finals, winning gold on vault, where she was one of only two athletes to compete a double twisting yurchenko, the most difficult vault performed at the competition and a silver on Bars, where she placed second to Ksenia Klimenko, the reigning junior European champion on that event.