She is affiliated with the
Fiamme Gialle Castelporziano sports club. Rigaudo represented her country at the
Summer Olympics in 2004 and 2008. She was the bronze medallist over 20 km at the
2011 European Race Walking Cup and went on to place fourth at the
2011 World Championships in Athletics, which was later upgraded to silver medal after disqualifications. In 2002, she received a public warning for high levels of caffeine in her doping sample. She came third at the 2012
Memorial Mario Albisetti, finishing behind Russia's
Tatyana Sibileva. ==Progression==