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NAVARRIA BRONZE AT THE OLYMPICS WITH ITALY IN THE SWORD: IT IS DETERMINING AGAINST CHINA DEFEATED BY ESTONIA THE BLUES REACT AND IN A THRILLING CHALLENGE THEY GO ON THE PODIUM

An immense emotion, the heart bursting with joy: Mara Navarria is bronze in the team sword. The dream always chased has finally become reality. Together with Rossella Fiamingo, Federica Isola and Alberta Santuccio, Mara brought the female Italspada back to the podium after 25 years of fasting. To give the blue victory was an exciting match against China, number one in the world: an assault started at a disadvantage but then recovered and closed at the heart of 23-21.

Crucial from the first match of the day, Carlino’s swordswoman in forces with the Army and Asu Udine, was fundamental, in particular, in the match against the athletes of the Rising Sun, great favorites of the eve. The 36-year-old from Friuli has been able to bring out all her resources, remaining lucid: thanks to the exceptional work done together with her team also from a mental and breathing point of view. On the platform, in the decisive moments, he found a perfect psychophysical balance and when he threw there was none for anyone. The numbers speak for themselves in this sense: in the final alone he made 12 of the 23 team hits, with a personal partial of +6 which was decisive, as I had been in the quarter-finals.

At the end of the race she looks at the medal around her neck and finally lets out everything she has managed to keep inside herself in perfect balance: emotion and immense joy. This bronze arrives at the apex of career and maturity, as an athlete, as a woman, as a mother, different roles that Mara has always managed to reconcile, fully realizing herself in each of them. Yesterday, on the platform, she also brought a piece of Friuli, of that beloved land of which she has always been proud and of which she has always felt so far away, first to Rome and then to Rapallo.

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«To make our athlete and the blue team fly high – commented the regional councilor for sport, Tiziana Gibelli yesterday – was also the eagle, symbol of the Region, which Mara wears on her competition uniform». Mara and her companions’ match had started on the Italian night with the quarter-final against the Russian Olympic Committee. A match in which the entry into the third fraction of the athlete from Carlino allowed the blues to take the lead, then safely maintained until the end: the final score 33-31. The semifinal saw Italy pitted against Katrina Lehis’s Estonia, bronze in the individual, who on Saturday had eliminated first Mara Navarria and then Rossella Fiamingo.

Even in the team event, the Balticians led the match from start to finish, deservedly earning the right to fight for gold on the platform: 42-34 the result at the end of the 9 fractions.

The final for the bronze was thrilling against China without the Olympic champion Sun Yiwen, who was injured in the semifinal match against South Korea. Balanced start of the match, then Rossella Fiamingo and Mara Navarria signed a 9-1 run that led to the Italy to lead 15-8. China has shortened and the Friulian has lengthened again until 19-13. In the last fraction Federica Isola managed to contain the return of Zhu Mingye who got closer until 22-21, before being forced to a medical timeout 8 seconds from the end. At the resumption of the match, the 21-year-old from Vercelli placed the decisive paw for the final 23-21. –

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