Tara Dragas

Tara Dragas (born 17 February 2007) is an Italian rhythmic gymnast[1] of Slovenian descent. She is the 2022 European ribbon junior silver medalist.

Tara Dragas
Country represented Italy
Born (2007-02-17) 17 February 2007
San Daniele del Friuli, Italy
DisciplineRhythmic Gymnastics
LevelInternational Elite
Years on national team2020-present
ClubAssociazione Sportiva Udinese
Head coach(es)Špela Dragaš
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Junior European Championships 0 1 0
Total 0 1 0
Representing  Italy
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Junior European Championships
Silver medal – second place2022 Tel AvivRibbon

At the national level, she is the 2022 Italian Junior champion, a two-time (2020, 2021) Italian Junior silver medalist and the 2019 Italian Pre Junior champion.

Personal life

She took up rhythmic gymnastics at the age of four at the Associazione Sportiva Udinese, coached by her mother Špela Dragaš.[2] She has dual citizenship - Italian and Slovenian.

Career

Junior

Dragas debuted in the national team in November 2020 on the occasion of the bilateral between Italy and Germany held in Desio.[3] In May 2021 Dragas competed at the FIG International Tournament "Ritam Cup" in Belgrade, where she won the gold medal in the all-around, as well as three golds with hoop, clubs and ribbon, a silver with ball, and gold in the team competition along Giorgia Galli.[4] In 2022, she won 3 gold medals at the 5th edition of Comegym tournament,[5] two gold medals at the international tournament in Portimão,[6] and a silver medal with ribbon at the European Championships in Tel Aviv.[7] In October, she participated in Tart Cup, where she won four golds and a silver medal.

Senior

Tara became a senior in 2023, on March 24th it was announced she will be debuting at the World Cup Sofia along Milena Baldassarri and Sofia Raffaeli.[8] She took 19th place in All-around competition.[9] In April, she won gold in All-around at 35th MTM Tournament in Ljubljana. She also took home gold in Hoop and Ribbon, silver in Ball and bronze in Clubs.[10]

On June 10, Dragas competed at the 2023 Italian National Championships, her first one as a senior, and finished on 7th place in the all-around competition.[11] On next day, she won silver medal in clubs and bronze medal in hoop final.

Routine music information
Year Apparatus Music Title
2023 Hoop Craw-Fever by Elvis Presley
Ball SOS by Dimash
Clubs Quantum Utopia (feat. Eugene Hütz) by Goran Bregović
Ribbon Vegas Rehearsal/That's All Right by Austin Butler and Elvis Presley
2022 Hoop Beauty and the beast (Cinematic Piano/Cello) cover by Jennifer Thomas and Armen Ksajikian
Ball SOS by Dimash
Clubs Opera by Gabry Ponte & La Diva
Ribbon Stalker's Tango by Autoheart

References
  1. "DRAGAS Tara - FIG Athlete Profile". www.gymnastics.sport. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  2. "La figlia d'arte Tara Dragas già a medaglia È lei la promessa della ritmica italiana". Messaggero Veneto (in Italian). 2018-05-07. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  3. "Desio – Road to Kiev 2020, il bilaterale di Ritmica tra Italia-Germania verso gli Europei". www.federginnastica.it. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  4. Goretti, Fiorella (2021-04-27). "Agiurgiuculese, Dragas, Tagliabue e Galli pronte a partire per la 15a Ritam Cup | 01_02 Maggio 2021". Ginnastica Ritmica EU (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  5. "Mersin - Arriva l'acuto anche dalla Ritmica. Taglietti e Dragas trionfano nell'All Around per Team". www.federginnastica.it. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  6. "2022 Portimão Results" (PDF). ginastica.org.
  7. "2022 European Championships Result Book" (PDF). europeangymnastics.
  8. "ASU - Tara Dragaš called up with the seniors for the World Cup in Sofia".
  9. "SOFIA WORLD CUP 2023 - RESULTS" (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  10. "Tara Dragaš zmagovalka 35. turnirja MTM Narodni dom" (in Slovenian). Retrieved 2023-04-10.
  11. "Ginnastica ritmica, Campionato Assoluto 2023: Raffaeli trionfa a Folgaria e concede il bis". Sportface.it (in Italian). 2023-06-10.
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