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Basketball, the Italian national team with Down syndrome wins the European Championships

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The long wave of the great blue summer does not stop, on the contrary. This time the national basketball team triumphed with athletes suffering from Down syndrome, who, in front of a friendly public from Ferrara, won the European championships by beating Turkey in the final. 21 – 12 the final result, which rewarded the boys trained by Giuliano Bufacchi, Mauro Dessì and Francesca D’Erasmo. The Azzurri had raised the flag on three other occasions, with victories at the 2017 European Championships and at the 2018 and 2019 World Cups.

October 10 is the National Day of people with Down syndrome and the anniversary could not have been better honored by our eight basketball players: Chiara Vingione and Fabio Tomao, Alessandro Greco, Alex Cesca and Andrea Rebichini, Alessandro Ciceri, Antonello Spiga and Davide Paulis .

“In 2021 the national teams of Italy win in any sport, we didn’t want to be outdone,” declared Mr. Bufacchi proudly.

The basketball event is more generally part of the first edition of the SUDS Open Euro TriGames, a multidisciplinary event reserved for athletes with Down syndrome: in total, the Azzurri collected 105 medals, 53 of which gold.

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