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= Francesca Bagnoli = Francesca Bagnoli (Livorno, 28 March 1994) is an Italian kite surfer, current national champion in the kitesurf freestyle category.

Biography
Francesca Bagnoli was born in Livorno on the 28th of March 1994. Since she was young, she has been a sports fan and her agonistic career begun as gymnast. Later on, while watching her father practicing, she decided to try out a new sport discipline: kiteboarding. Thus, freestyle kitesurf became her new routine for which she appeared very passionate.

From 2009, at the age of 15, her life moved between youth competitions and practice, subsequently shared with her boyfriend Gianmaria Coccoluto, who is also Italian champion in the same discipline. The move from Tuscany to Sicily has had an important impact on her career and personal growth.

In September 2012, in Frassinato (LE), she took part in her first Italian championship but was defeated by Giorgia Notaro, finishing third.

In June 2013, during the National Championships held at the beach of Salto Di Fondi in Terracina (RM), she became the Italian champion in the freestyle category for the first time. At that time, the Tuscan athlete, who was almost 20 years old at the time, got the better of the 17-years-old Chiara Esposito from Naples and Greta Menardo from Lodi.

2014 is a year full of great victories for Francesca. During a competition held in three different cities she obtained her second national triumph. After the first stage in Vindicio (Formia), interrupted due to no wind, the athlete won the second stage in Talamone (Grosseto). Once again, during the third stage, which took place in Sardinia, the competition was cancelled because of bad weather and Francesca’s previous result was hereby confirmed.

Francesca spent the entire winter of the same year between Brazil and Sicily in order to increase her technique and thus be ready to compete against world-class athletes. Her first international competition was the European championship in 2014 (Gizzeria, CZ) where she finished second behind the Czech Paula Novotna. This competition marked the beginning of Francesca’s international fame.

In 2015, Francesca won the Italian championship for the third time. She also took part in two stages of the world cup tour, but she did not make it through the qualifying round.

The fourth national victory was in 2016, in Sardinia. In the same year she took part in two events of the world circuit. At Leucate Kiteboarding Grand Slam in France she reached the 4th round, getting close to the semi-finals. In the Pringles Kitesurf World Cup in Germany she did not make it through the preliminaries.

In 2017 she was the protagonist of another triumph at national level, thus winning five national championship in a row. The biggest success at international level happened in Leucate, the third stage of the World Kiteboarding League, where she finished third behind the Brasilian Bruna Kajiya and the Dutch Annabel Van Westerop. The excellent season ended with the third position in the world ranking for the freestyle category.

Francesca became six times Italian champion in 2018, stating her position as one of the best kite surfers in the Italian scenario. In September 2018 she took part in the world cup championship and, after the first stage in Turkey, she is currently ranking third behind the winner Mikaili Sol (BRA) and Paula Novotna (CZE).

Francesca is very passionate about yoga. Moreover, she won her first official competition of wakeboarding in Latina in 2015.