Thursday, 15 April 2021 Italy’s 17-year-old Sofia Raffaeli will seek to build on last month’s success in her Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup debut in Sofia when she competes in the second World Cup of the season set to start tomorrow in Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent. Raffaeli was one of the revelations of the opening event in this year’s International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) series, where she took silver with the clubs and bronze with the ribbon for detailed routines of unusual artistic and musical sensibility. "I was not expecting medals," she told FIG. "The only thing I wanted was to perform my exercises at my best.