NAME: Assunta SCUTTO
COUNTRY: ITALY
CATEGORY: -48KG
WORLD RANKING POINTS: 6531
The 21 year-old Assunta ‘Susa’ SCUTTO landed on the senior scene following a number of major junior successes in 2021 with a win in the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam. In the following year, Scutto succeeded to take her first senior world medal, a bronze in Tashkent, followed by an equally impressive IJF Masters medal in Jerusalem.
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This year however, she truly established herself as the front runner, and in the end, the world ranked number one of the -48kg category. Yet another world medal was added to her collection in the Doha world championships, as well as a second Masters medal, but her ability to clean up in the grand slam events was truly stunning. Scutto scored a hat-trick, claiming Kazakhstan, Baku and Abu Dhabi this year.
As such a young athlete, we can only imagine what Scutto can achieve in her career, but of course 2024 brings about new challenges, and her debut in the Olympic Games.
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Author: Thea Cowen