PAVIA
From Assisi to Sofia and Montreal to Guayaquil, Ecuador. In search of qualification for the Paris 2024 Games, the boxer from Pavia with a Chilean passport Valentina Bustamante is touring the rings all over the world. The pupil of the Bsa Pavia master, Fabio Paragnani, from the technical center of the Italian national team in Assisi moved to Sofia, Bulgaria to fight in the Strandja tournament. In the first round Bustamante against the Kazakh Rimma Volosenko, fresh from Tokyo, in kg. 60, she was defeated at points 3-2: the Russian and Ukrainian judges gave the Pavese 30-27 as the winner, for the English and the Polish the Kazakh winner by one point and the Estonian saw the Kazakh advantage 30 –27.
«I accept the verdict with some reasonable doubts – explains Paragnani – now Valentina is in Canada, invited to act as sparring partner for the Canadian national team. She then she will fly to Guayaquil, to fight in a tournament reserved for the South American national teams. I’ll join Valentina tomorrow. The Pan-American tournament is very important for us ». –
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