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Maria Chiara Ramorino (born 13 April 1931) is an Italian orienteer and a former tennis player.

Biography

She won two medals at the Summer Universiade. After her tennis career she became a proponent of the sport of Orienteering, and in 2008 wrote also a book of this theme. She was also a scientist, among the researchers who participated to the first Italian missions to Antarctica in the early 1990s, and manager of the Italian team that compiled and promulgated the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica, 1998–2006. The Ramorino Glacier in Antarctica was named after her in 2006 by US-ACAN.

Achievements

References

1. "Universiade (World University Games)". hickoksports.com. Archived from the original on 1 September 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
2. "Orienteering". edizionimediterranee.net. Archived from the original on 22 February 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
3. In doubles with Massimo Drisaldi
4. In doubles with Maria Teresa Riedl
5. IOF WMOC results at http://orienteering.org/calendarresults/foot-orienteering/world-masters-orienteering-championships/
6. FISO – http://www.fiso.it

External links

• (in Italian) Athlete profile at FISO web site

• 1931 births
• Living people
• Italian female tennis players
• Summer World University Games medalists in tennis
• Italian orienteers
• Female orienteers
• FISU World University Games gold medalists for Italy
• Medalists at the 1959 Summer Universiade
• Sportspeople from Marche
• 20th-century Italian sportswomen