page_title: Vanessa Ferrari
section_title: 2013–2015
hierarchical_section_title: Vanessa Ferrari / Senior career / 2013–2015
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Vanessa Ferrari. Padova, 23 febbraio 2013
context_page_description: Vanessa Ferrari is an Italian artistic gymnast. She was the 2006 World All-Around Champion and competed for Italy at the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Summer Olympics.
context_section_description: In June 2013 Ferrari, with Elisabetta Preziosa, Giulia Leni, Giorgia Campana and Chiara Gandolfi, competed at the 2013 Mediterranean Games in Mersin. She contributed toward the Italian team's first-place finish; in event finals, she placed first on all-around scoring 56.132, first on floor scoring 13.900 and third on balance beam scoring 14.166. Ferrari is the most decorated Italian athlete at the Mediterranean Games with eight gold medals.
  At the 2013 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Ferrari finished sixth in the all-around and fourth on balance beam. On floor exercise, she scored 14.633 to win the silver medal. She used an instrumental version of Caro Emerald's Tangled Up as her floor exercise music.
  Ferrari began 2014 competing at the first Italian Serie A where she helped Brixia win the team gold.  In March she competed at the American Cup where she finished in fifth place.  In April she competed at the Tokyo World Cup where she finished in first place.  At the European Championships in May, Ferrari won the gold medal on floor exercise.  At the 2014 World Championships in Nanning, China, Ferrari helped Italy finish fifth in the team final.  Individually, Ferrari finished sixth in the all-around and fifth on floor exercise.  After World Championships, Ferrari continued competing at the World Cup circuit.  She next competed at the Stuttgart World Cup where she finished fourth despite having the flu.  She finished the year off at the Glasgow World Cup where she finished sixth.
  In 2015 Ferrari competed at the first two Italian Serie A competitions.  In March she competed at the 2015 AT&T American Cup where she finished sixth.  In April she competed at the 2015 European Championships where she qualified to the all-around final in tenth place.  However, she opted to withdraw from the final and allow teammate Martina Rizzelli to compete, due to the fact she was still overcoming mononucleosis.  In October Ferrari competed at the Novara Cup where Italy finished second in the team final and Ferrari finished eleventh in the all-around.  Later that month Ferrari competed at the 2015 World Championships.  She helped Italy qualify to the team finals and individually she qualified to the all-around final but withdrew, which allowed teammate Tea Ugrin to compete.
caption: Ferrari on the uneven bars in 2013.
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