The men’s sword disappoints while the men’s national volleyball team flies. Paltrinieri in the final in the 1500s
TOKYO. The blue Lucilla Boari is bronze medal in women’s archery at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, after beating the American McKenzie Brown. “I won a medal in the individual, wake me up, because this is a dream and I don’t believe it yet. Maybe I’ll make it come true in a few hours. Just think that last night I didn’t sleep from the desire I had for the podium”. This was the first reaction of the Italian archer Lucilla Boari, 24 years old from Mantua, after winning the bronze medal in her competition.
“For the women of our movement this medal counts a lot – she continues -, because it opens a tiring path. However, the thought of making it was there, given how it went yesterday, and I could not ask for anything better after the medal in Rio team had faded for a while “.
On the Italian night, at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the best news for Italy was Gianmarco Tamberi’s qualification for the high jump final. The worst was the elimination in the first round of the men’s sword team event: another bitter disappointment for Italian fencing. On the first day of competition at the Olympic Stadium, Gimbo (out due to injury in Rio 2016) overcame 2.28 meters on his second attempt, a measure that allowed him to celebrate access to his first Olympic final. “They were all bad jumps, but the important thing was to get to the final”, scheduled for Sunday when the blue will have to “just find the right jump to unlock me, and then – said one of the most anticipated Azzurri at these five-circle Games – it will be a magical day “.
For Italian athletics, excellent signals also came from Alessandro Sibilio (400 hurdles), Elena Bellò (800) and Anna Bongiorni (100), all qualified for the semifinals. Even better the blues in the 3000 steeplechase, with two out of three already qualified for the final: Ahmed Abdelwahed (third in his battery) and Ala Zoghlami (fished out), while his twin brother, Osama, did not get the pass for just 15 cents.
. Conditioned by the nervousness, the Italy of the male sword is therefore already out of the race for the medal in the team test. On the Azzurri (silver in Rio 2016) there were great expectations and instead in the first meeting of Tokyo 2020, that of the quarter-finals, Santarelli, Garozzo and Fichera lost badly with Russia for 45-34. Like Giordana Sorrentino yesterday, today Rebecca Nicoli was eliminated in the round of 16, thus ending her adventure in the Tokyo Olympics boxing tournament. The light weight blue was defeated on points 5-0 by Irishman Kellie Anne Harrington.
Third success out of four games played at the Tokyo Olympic tournament for the Italian men’s volleyball team: the sextet coached by Gianlorenzo Blengini defeated Iran 3-1 (30-28, 25-21, 21-25, 25-21) . In the last round of the qualifying round, Sunday 1 August, at 4.25 pm Italian time (9.25 am Italian time) the Azzurri (who have so far lost only to Poland, while they have also defeated Canada and Japan) will play against Venezuela.
Gregorio Paltrinieri qualified for the final of the 1500 freestyle at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The blue (silver in the 800s) finished third in his battery in 14’49 ” 17, fourth overall time.
.