Check out the bio, age and height of Giorgia Villa
Know more about Giorgia Villa as the Italy’s gymnast making waves across social media platforms after winning a silver medal in the women’s artistic gymnastics final on Tuesday.
However, she is been taking over the social media like a blaze due to her love cheese. What, got confused? Fret not, here’s the information.
For the curious, the 21-year-old Italy’s gymnast, Giorgia Villa, is also a partner with the iconic cheese brand Parmigiano Reggiano.
Who is Italian gymnast Giorgia Villa who has partnered with parmesan cheese brand Parmigiano Reggiano, bio, age, height, medals and Instagram
Although, the Olympian hasn’t posted any pictures on her Instagram account since 2022, her previous pictures have now gone viral across social media platforms especially on X.
What Did the Viral Pictures Show?
These viral standout pictures shows Giorgia Villa hugging a wheel of parmesan almost as big as she is. She caption the post, “Always together with my best friend @parmigianoreggiano, ready to start again and face new challenges!”
A few other memorable posts includes her performing handstands on cheese wheels and eating wrapped bites of the cheese while relaxing after training.
Giorgia Villa Performance at Olympics
For the unfamiliar, Villa secured a score of 13.766 on the uneven bars during rotation 2, the only event she competed in during the artistic gymnastics team final at the Paris Olympics 2024.
Olympic silver medalist and Italian gymnast Giorgia Villa is sponsored by parmesan cheese and takes many of her photos while posing with large wheels of cheese pic.twitter.com/klx8PEuFPN
— Women Posting W's (@womenpostingws) July 31, 2024
Despite her limited participation, she and her teammates Angela Andreoli, Alice D’Amato, Manila Esposito, and Elisa Iorio secured a second-place finish with a total score of 165.494, behind the United States’ 171.296.
Previous Performances
Making her World Cup debut, Villa, finished first on balance beam and second on uneven bars at the 2023 Baku World Cup. The young gymnast also bagged a gold medal at the 2022 European Championships with her team.
We don't want to sound cheesy, but these pics of Olympic silver medallist Giorgia Villa being sponsored by parmesan cheese are just so grate 🧀
Via https://t.co/QIWLH6TlqI pic.twitter.com/XAW02anFsV
— CBC Olympics (@CBCOlympics) August 1, 2024
Speaking about Italy’s performance at Paris Olympics 2024, so far, the nation has accumulated 13 medals, ranking seventh among all competing nations, with six silvers.
About Giorgia Villa
Born on February 23, 2003, in Ponte San Pietro, Italy, Giorgia Villa, is a member of the national team that won silver at the Summer Olympic 2024 and bronze at the 2019 World Championships.
Standing at 5-foot-5, Villa, was also part of the gold-winning teams at the 2022 Mediterranean Games and the 2022 European Championships. Individually, she is the 2018, 2020, and 2021 Italian national champion.
She is also recognized as the 2018 Youth Olympic champion, and the 2018 European junior all-around and beam champion.
She started gymnastics at four and moved to Brescia in 2010 to train at the International Academy of Brixia, where Vanessa Ferrari also trained.
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