The young girl from Pavia competes for Cameroon
Eighteen-year-old from Pavia Norah Elisabeth Milanesi will be in the water for Cameroon in the 50 freestyle on Friday at 12.27 Italian time in the fourth lane against Batbayar, Takyi, Roberts, Charlemagne, Paljk, Roja, Bisma Khan.
Freshly graduated from the Taramelli scientific high school, grown up with the Campus team in Pavia, she will go into the tank at the Tokyo Aquatics Center in the women’s 50 freestyle battery. Norah will compete for Cameroon, mother Rachel’s hometown, but she will carry Pavia in her heart.
Cheering on from home in Pavia will be mum Rachel and dad Oliviero with their other two children, Zoe and Yuri. Friday, July 30, when it’s time for his battery, in Cameroon it will be 11 am. And in front of the screen there will be, with relatives, the maternal grandfather, the first fan of the athlete who in the African country – after the qualifications in March 2020 in which he burned his compatriots with his times – is considered a star. After all, Norah Milanesi is the first woman, since 1962, to bring the gold medal to Cameroon in the African championships.