She wants to achieve certain goals,” said her father Marco Cesarini, 57. (REUTERS/Yara Nardi)įrancesca is a girl who knows what she wants. “She still doesn’t want them,” said her mother Valeria Mencaroni, 47.” Francesca Cesarini practices pole dancing at home while her mother Valeria Mencaroni, 47, watches. She has one prosthetic leg, but when he she was about eight years old she decided to stop using artificial forearms because she found them inhibiting.
“There are some difficult elements (like) when you have to contort yourself or maybe you have to hold on with just an arm, a leg, or a foot. (REUTERS/Yara Nardi)Īt a recent training session, as she hung upside down and twirled, Imbrogno told her to try it again but with her head just a bit straighter. Francesca Cesarini, 15, poses with the gold medal she won in the disability category at the the Virtual International Pole Sports Federation World Pole and Aerial Championship 2021, in Magione, near Perugia, Italy. “It makes me feel free,” she said in her family’s apartment near Perugia in central Italy, where she practices at home and trains with her coach Elena Imbrogno in a local gym. She likes to go to McDonalds, sings the latest pop song while walking with her best friend, and loves all things Harry Potter.īut she chose an increasingly popular sport that anyone would find difficult. Like many girls her age, Francesca wears braces on her teeth and a black plastic choker necklace. She was the only athlete to compete in the disability category and was awarded the gold medal. (REUTERS/Yara Nardi)īecause of the COVID-19 pandemic, pole dancers from around the world submitted videos of their performances and were judged virtually.
Cesarini was born with no hands and with only one leg but she chose an increasingly popular sport that anyone would find difficult, she wanted to be an acrobatic pole dancer.
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