Bede and Horn triumph. Respectable loot for the home club (2 golds, 3 silvers and 2 bronzes) and the first train in the city
IVREA
Over one hundred athletes met at the Canoe Stadium yesterday, Sunday 29, where the Italian Canoe Kayak Slalom and Extreme Slalom Championships were staged. In the waters of the Dora Baltea in search of the tricolor titles, the canoeists engaged in the specialties of K1 and C1 male and female, C2 male and C2 mixed.
Organization of the prestigious event entrusted to the Ivrea canoe club on the traditional competition field that winds with the classic departure from the Pontetto and arrival at the Ruins of the Roman bridge for a length of about 200 meters and a difficulty of third and fourth degree, 21 in total doors of which you are going up and path traced for the occasion by Nicola Micozzi.
Marcello Beda, Canoa club Bologna graduated as champion of Italy in the male K1 Stefanie Horn, registered with the Navy but now Ivorian by adoption, triumphs in the female K1.
Among the men’s C1s, Roberto Colazingari, the Carabinieri Sports Center and Chiara Sabattini, the Blue Flames sports group stands out in the women’s C1.
On Sunday, Italian Championships, excellent placings for the home athletes who won the Italian title in the men’s C2 with Matteo Serrano and Francesco Cavo and with the women’s K1 team made up of Lucia Pistoni, Erica Piatti, Carolina Massarenti; as well as a bronze medal with the men’s K1 team (Gregotti, Bernard and Gjoshi); three silvers in the mixed C2 (Carolina Massarenti and Simone Marchegiano) and in the C1 teams (Silini, Balma and Cerrano) and K1 men (Matteo and Michele Pistoni and Lorenzo Cardini).
For the extreme slalom in the men’s field wins Giovanni De Gennaro (another Ivrea by adoption), in the women’s one Eleonora Lucato, bronze medal for Erica Piatti, Ivrea canoa club.
The absolute were preceded Saturday, August 28, by the national race for the senior and junior categories.
«We did well in both days of competition – comments Mario Di Stazio president of Ivrea canoa club – Saturday we were even more in evidence I would say: we imposed ourselves with personality. This is a tangible sign that our young people are growing. As I already said, we have invested a lot in economic terms and in men in our boys: today we are starting to reap the fruits of what we have sown ». The new Italian champion Marcello Beda is radiant: «I worked hard to achieve this goal. I can also say that I was somewhat expecting it. It was a fantastic day: I consider it the beginning of a new great adventure. The tricolor title, as far as I’m concerned, is the springboard to conquer other prestigious successes ». Great protagonist of the day also Chiara Sabattini (she also trains in Ivrea in the federal center), champion of Italy in women’s C1 and silver medal in women’s K1: «I was hoping for a lot in a day like this. I am happy with my performance in both C1 and K1: I entered the canoe with my head free from all thoughts focused only on the race and this certainly helped me, succeeding even at the last to find new trajectories on the river that gave me an advantage ». maximum Sardinian