Kitakyushu (Japan), 23 October 2021 – It’s called Nicola Bartolini and has just rewritten the history of artistic gymnastics blue. At the world championship in progress in Kitakyushu, Japan, the ’96 class triumphed in free body, giving Italy the second oro in the specialty after that of Giorgio Zampori in 1913. Over 100 years later. Instead, 24 have passed since the success in the rings of You are the Church, the last of our standard bearers to climb to the top of the world in gymnastics.
The race
At the Kitakyushu City General Gymnasium, the Cagliari player has accomplished a real feat, finishing in front of everyone with a score of 14,800. Beat the host, the Japanese Kazuki Minami (14,766), and South Korean Emil Soravuo (14,700). Bartolini came to the final with the second score (the same one that later earned him gold): he performed first and every time he saw his opponents do worse than him. Until the triumph, the most important of his career, in which the Pro Patria Bustese athlete can also boast bronze at the European Championships in Basel six months ago and gold at the absolute championships in Naples. However, nothing comparable to what was combined in Japan, where Bartolini brought the blue gymnastics back to the world podium in the free body 55 years after the two bronzes won by Franco Menichelli a Dortmund.
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