Dominici, prestigious victory For the Delfino super day

The eleven-year-old Spadista from Eporedia wins the international competition in Brescia. Placements among the top ten also for Tonso, Biondi, Tappero Merlo and Dini

IVREA

First international engagement of the season and Giuseppe Delfino fencing club immediately hit the mark. In Brescia, Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th, the appointment with the International Fencing Challenge, the tournament organized by the blue foil player Andrea Cassarà, on the platforms of the San Filippo sports center will be staged. Event reserved for male and female epee and foil tests under 14 with the presence of 500 athletes from 19 countries, including non-European ones. The Circolo Delfino ranks 14 athletes in the sword specialty in three different categories. A title (with Alisia Dominici) and two placings in the final poule (with Aliki Tonso and Mattia Tappero Merlo) are the spoils of the Ivrea players, but other prestigious results to be recorded.

The greatest satisfaction comes from the female sector. In the Girls-Very Young category (class 2011-2010) the eleven-year-old Alisia Dominici (fifth grade at the Primary in Azeglio), in her first year of competitive activity, hits an unexpected success on the eve, but more than ever deserved. And with her, the company mates also defend themselves with honor. Alisia Dominici begins her day of glory with 4 wins and one defeat in the qualifying round, earning seventh position in the knockout draw. In the sixteenths Dominici overtakes the Milanese Emma Morra 10-5 and in the same round also the other dolphin bearers advance: Aliki Tonso beats the Alexandrian Clara Padovese of Casale Monferrato 10-6, Stella Biondi the Lombard Sara Cavaliere 10-7, while Sara Gillone yields 9-10 to the Swiss Elodie Ravelli from Lugano and Marta Bistrattin goes out. In the second round, the Ivrea derby in the last thrust with Dominici prevailing over Biondi 10-9, while Tonso beats Gaia Giacomantonio (Terni) 10-5. In the quarterfinals Tonso’s race stops 5-10 by Diletta Freguglia from Novara and Dominici’s show begins opposite three foreign swordsmen. The first to fall under her blows is the Swiss from Lugano Ravelli for 10-3. In the semifinal there is the Polish from Warsaw Alicja Szewcyk: she finishes 10-8. In the final, here is the Serbian Cika Magdalena: with great coldness Alisia always keeps her opponent at a distance and wins 10-6: «Alisia – comments the maestro Marco Secco – she has always shot with great tranquility. She suffered from the start of the semifinal match with the Pole, but when she understood her opponent’s weak point everything went well ». In the standings, Aliki Tonso seventh, Stella Biondi tenth, Sara Gillone 17th, Marta Bistrattin 31st.

In the men’s field on the platform the Maschietti-Giovanissimi category (2011- 2010) with the Delfino who fielded 4 athletes. Closes in the quarters the best of the Ivrea, the left-handed Mattia Tappero Merlo (12 years of Parella, first grade in Banchette) beaten 10-6 by the Roman from Ariccia Leonardo Roppo and eighth in the standings. In the previous round, eighths, Tappero beat teammate Fabio Dini 10-9, the latter 9th in the ranking. In the sixteenths Tommaso Cuttica (31st) leaves the scene and Andrea Brianese (39th) in the thirty-second. Instead in the Boys-Students category (2009-2008) the three representatives of Ivrea, all born in 2009, suffer the double category and leave the competition too soon: Giacomo Rosi, Daniele Di Crescenzo and Pietro Oberto. –