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Passion. Resilience. Perseverance

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BIO

BIO

She was born in Taranto (Puglia - Italy) on 14 October 2008. passionate about sports, she started skiing at the age of 3, and already at that age, she demonstrated a strong competitiveness. In the last 10 years, she won all the ski school competitions,  at the age of 10 her dream was to become a ski instructor but the Dolomites were a thousand kilometers away from her hometown.
Since the age of five has attended daily classes in ballet, modern and contemporary dance.
In June 2021 he enrolled in the summer camp at the Sup Academy in Taranto @sup_academy_taranto led by Mario Tagarelli @tiger_taga.  She immediately understood that SUP would become a fundamental part of his life. In mid-2022 the decision to leave ballet to focus only on SUP. 
In  the same year the first races in Italy and Europe, she won almost all the Italian races,  the Sprint and the technical both under 15 and under 18 at the Odra Sup Race Raciborz - Poland, and the Kids race at the ICF World Championship in Gdynia, Poland.  In September 2023, was called up from FISW (Italian Surfing Federation) to the  Italian national team to attend the ISA World Cup Championship in France and the EuroSUP European Championship in Portugal. Claudia was summoned also to the Italian national team by the FICK (Canoe Federation) to attend the ICF world championship in Pattaya - Thailand; where at 15 years and 33 days she won the world title in the long distance and the next day she won the world title in the technical race. A few months later in May 2024, still at 15 years old, she achieved her first podium in the senior category, a second place in the technical race "THE LAKE ROCKS" Villach (Austria). 

in October 2024, just turned 16 and a month before the world championship in Sarasota, she breaks a ligament in her foot, she can no longer train but only follow a rehabilitation program, she still shows up at the world championship and manages to win a bronze in the sprint and reach the final in the Technical race. 

although without any training, she shows up at the 12 km long distance and manages to stay in the leading group of 5 athletes and finish in fourth place.

Claudia is attending the third year at Lyceum "Archita" in Taranto.
She trains in one of the most beautiful spots in Puglia "Lido Gandoli" Where  the SUP Academy Taranto is based  (this background). 

Gandoli's Bay

My Next Race

(confirmed)

WATER FESTIVAL  - ISOLA DELLE FEMMINE  3-4 May  (Palermo - ITALY) 

WORLD SUP FESTIVAL COSTA BLANCA 15-18 May  (Santa Pola - Spain) 

LIDO GANDOLI SUP RACE 9-11 May (Lido Gandoli - Taranto -  ITALY) 

BARCELONA SUP WORLD FEST  24-25 May  (Barcelona - Spain) 

2025 Result

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here are my latest results and updated EUROTOUR rank and SUP WORLD RANKING

2024 Awards

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 Current Ranking 2025

#__  Overall

#__  Elite junior

Current Ranking 2025

# 2 Overall Sprint Race

# 3  Overall Technical Race

# 8 Overall Long Distance Race

Updated April 24, 2025

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when an Instagram post is worth more than a win and leaves you speechless

🙏 @susanne_lier

 

Eurotour Nordhausen

 July 1, 2023

 

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© 2025 Claudia Postiglione 

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