The athlete from Pavia finished third in the 200 mixed S5, beating her teammate Ghiretti in the sprint
TOKYO. Third medal – again a bronze – for the swimmer from Pavia Monica Boggioni at the Tokyo Paralympics. After the two bronzes in the 100 and 200 freestyle category S5, completed by a fifth and a sixth place in the 50 breaststroke and 100 backstroke, Monica Boggioni hit her third personal podium with a surprising exploit in the 200 medley, in which she beat teammate Giulia Ghiretti in the sprint for third place. In the first two places were placed the Chinese Dong Lu and Jiao Cheng.
The twenty-three year old swimmer from Pavia of the Fiamme Oro gave everything in what was the last race in her packed Olympic program: “I am very very happy – she said at the end of the race – the weather may not satisfy me completely, I thought I would do a little better, but this race represents for me a decisive step forward in terms of physical and mental stability. We have been away from home for many days, then this was the tenth day of racing and the fatigue made itself felt. But I did it and I thank all the people who follow me, especially my coach and my mental coach. If they had told me in January that I would have won an Olympic medal in this competition, I would not have believed it, at that time I did not think that I would not even have finished a race like this “.
Thanks to Monica’s third medal, the 38th in the blue team (the 39th with the men’s 4×100 relay also arrived at the last race), Italy conquers the fifth place in the Olympic swimming medal table behind China, Russia, United States and Ukraine. The overall medal table of Italy rises to 65.