Donegà wins gold at the Tissot Nations Cup and makes Team Friuli happy

The man from Ferrara, who runs for the club owned by the patron Bressan, triumphs in the Omniom at the Nations Cup. Euro U23: Buratti seventh

There is so much Cycling Team Friuli in the medals that the Italian national cycling team has collected in the last few days at the Tissot Nations Cup at the Cali velodrome, in Colombia, that the association of patron Roberto Bressan is celebrating at least as much as the azzurrini are doing.

Jonathan Milan’s gold medals in the team pursuit and in the individual pursuit, complete with records, brought the young Olympic and world champion from Buje back to the fore, who exploded with the black and white uniform of the Friulian team.

Vieppiù, in Cali, also highlighted Matteo Donegà, from Ferrara who has been racing with Team Friuli since 2017 and who on Sunday evening won the gold medal in the Omnium in the Colombian velodrome.

In the individual competition that includes four tests, the scratch, the time-race, the elimination and the points race, the Este has been able to recover, race after race, remedying a bad start in scratch.

Lastly, Donegà climbed back to mid-table thanks to a good performance in the time-race, to then beat the competition in the elimination race and in the points race, where the Indonesian Bernard van Aert and the idol of home, the Colombian listed Juan Arango.

«Donegà is not always a constant guy – commented the blue coach Marco Villa -, but who devotes a lot of energy to the track. It was not easy to recover after a bad start. He had a cool head and determination ».

With the gold medals of Jonathan Milan and Matteo Donegà, the successes in the early days of Letizia Paternoster and the couple Scartezzini-Lamon and, on the last day, and the silver of the same Paternoster and Francesca Selva, an unprecedented couple from Madison, Italy he finished first in the final medal table, ahead of China, Trinidad and Tobago and the United States.

“In Calì there weren’t all the best – said Villa – but the level was very high, as confirmed by the times”.

And, speaking of Cycling Team Friuli, moving on to the U23 European Championships on the road, it is right to applaud another Juventus team’s excellent placement.

Nicolo Buratti from Buttrii seventh in Sunday’s race, at Anadia in Portugal, who awarded the continental category title, won by the German Felix Engelhardt, ahead of the Czech Vacek and the other blue player Davide De Pretto.

The young Friulian has engaged in the sprint of the group, behind the leaders. At Anadia, Italy also took the women’s U23 silver with Vittoria Guazzini, behind the Dutch Van Anrooij and the silver and bronze among the Under 19s with Ciabocco and Venturelli behind the French Rayer.