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Carlotta Ferlito (born February 15, 1995) is an Italian artistic gymnast and is a member of the team that will represent Italy at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She competed at the 2010 Youth Olympics in Singapore where she won silver medal on beam and was third in all-around and vault. At the 2011 European Championships in Berlin she placed fifth in the all-around with a score of 55.825. In event finals, she won a silver on balance beam and placed sixth on floor.

At Italian National Championships she won eleven medals, including two golds on beam, one gold on vault and floor exercise.

Junior Career
Ferlito was born on February 15, 1995 in Catania, Sicily. She has an older brother, Gianpaolo and an older sister, Ludovica.

After a short career as a swimmer she began gymnastics when she was six years old in Catania, followed by her coach Maurizio Ferullo. In 2007 she moved to Lissone, a city near Milan. This allows her to compete as an Elite gymnast.

Her first competition as part of the national team was a friendly meeting in Switzerland in 2008. She helped the Italian team win first place and individually she placed third in all around.

In december, Carlotta competed at the Gymnasiade in Doha, Qatar, where she won a silver medal on balance beam only edged by Aliya Mustafina by a margin of 0.025 points. She also won silver with teammates Andrea Foti, Giulia Leni, Chiara Gandolfi and Eleonora Rando.

2010: Youth Olympic Games in Singapore
At the end of march, she competed at the junior division of the 2010 City of Jesolo Trophy in Jesolo. Here she contributed to the team silver medal by competing on all four events. Individually, she placed 10th in all-around.

Ferlito then competed in the junior competition at the 2010 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Birmingham where she achieved a bronze medal with the Italian National team. She also qualified third for the beam finals (14.050) but, during event finals, she fell from the balance and placed 8th.

The Youth Olympics was the major gymnastics competition of 2010. In Singapore, Carlotta won three medals: a bronze medals on all-around with a score of 55.300 (behind Viktoria Komova and Tan Sixin) and on vault (13.700), a silver medal on balance beam (14.850).

Following her success on YOG she competed at "Campionati Assoluti" (National Championship) where she won another three medals: a gold on vault (13.775), a silver on beam (14.075) and a bronze in the all-around with a score of 53.500, behind Elisabetta Preziosa and world all-around champion Vanessa Ferrari.

2011: European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Berlin
In 2011, her first year competing as a senior, Ferlito competed at the City of Jesolo Trophy. Here she contributed to the team silver medal (212.800) by competing on all four events. Individually, she placed 5th in all-around.

She then competed at the 2011 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Berlin where she placed fifth in the all-around with a score of 55.825. In event finals, she won a silver on balance beam (14.500) ahead her teammate and bronze medalist Elisabetta Preziosa; she also placed sixth on floor.

After four days of competition, Carlotta's Club "GAL Lissone" won Serie A1 Scudetto.

On May 27th, during the preliminary round of competition at Campionati Assoluti, she won the silver medal in the all-around with a score of 56.350. She also qualified for the vault (13.750), uneven bars (13.250), beam (14.650) and floor exercise (14.500) finals. In the event finals, she won a gold medal on beam and floor exercise (tied with Vanessa Ferrari) and a silver medal on vault. She also fell two times on uneven bars and placed 8th.

World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo
In October, Ferlito competed at the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. This event is the first qualifying stage for the 2012 Summer Olympics which will be held in London. The top 8 women's teams will directly qualify for the team events at the 2012 Olympics. Italy placed 9th (219.578) and didn't qualified. It will get a second chance to qualify a full team at the Olympic Test Event in January from which four women's teams will qualify.

Individually, she qualified 24th for the all-around finals with a score of 54.332 (ahed Marine Brevet's 54.331). In the final, she placed 14th.

2012: Pre-Olympics
Carlotta's first competition in 2012 was 2012 Gymnastics Olympic Test Event in London. She helped Italian team to qualify in 1st place for the Olympics. She scored 14.066 on floor, 14.100 on vault, 13.433 on bars and 14.533 on beam (placing 1st on beam qualification). She also placed 3rd in all-around, behind teammates Vanessa Ferrari and Erika Fasana. In beam finals, she performed a great exercise receiving 14.500 and she won gold medal tied with Vasiliki Millousi. She also placed 5th in floor final (13.966).

Following her success at the Olympic Test Event, she competed at City of Jesolo Trophy. Here she contributed to the team silver medal (224.250) by competing on all four events. Individually, she placed 8th in all-around with a score of 56,550. She also placed 2nd on beam (15.200) behind Kyla Ross (15.500).

After four days of competition, Carlotta's Club "GAL Lissone" won twice Serie A1 Scudetto in a row.

In May, Ferlito competed at the 2012 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Brussels, Belgium. She contributed towards the Italian team's third place finish (168.005). She also placed 9th on beam and couldn't qualify for the final edged by a margin of 0.009 points.

In June, Carlotta joined the Centro Sportivo Esercito.

On June 16th, during the preliminary round of competition at Campionati Assoluti, she won the silver medal in the all-around with a score of 55.950. She also qualified for the uneven bars (13,250), beam (14.650) and floor exercise (14,000) finals. In the event finals, she won a gold medal on beam. She also placed 4th on floor exercise and uneven bars.

2012 Summer Olympics
With Vanessa Ferrari, Giorgia Campana, Elisabetta Preziosa and Erika Fasana, she was selected to the national team that will represent Italy at the 2012 Summer Olympics.