Silver for the canoeist in the single K200 while for Greg there is the bronze in the 10 kilometers of open water swimming
It was a great blue day. At the Tokyo Olympics the Italian medal table was enriched with 4 other medals starting with Massimo Stano’s gold in the 20 km walk. To underline the silver of Manfredi Rizza in the K1 200 meters of the sprint canoe and the bronzes of Gregorio Paltrinieri in the 10 km of bottom swimming and of Elia Viviani in the Omnium. In total, the metals conquered by Italy are 32 (7 golds, 10 silvers and 17 bronzes), a loot that exceeds that of Athens 2004 (where there were 10 golds, 11 silvers and 11 bronzes) best result since 2000.
To establish the order of arrival of the K1 200 meters it was necessary to have a photo finish: Rizza only went to the Hungarian Sandor Totka, gold with 45 thousandths of a second ahead of the blue.
The 10-kilometer swimming test was won by the German Florian Wellbrock, silver to the Hungarian Kristóf Rasovszky. Paltrinieri completed the test 51 «2 behind the winner. “I’m happy, it was the best I could do, the right reward after two months of hell”, said Greg who is the first Italian to win two five-circle medals in the pool (silver in the 800 freestyle) and in the water. free.
Finally Elia Viviani, able to return to the podium after the success in Rio in the Omnium. This time the Italian cyclist pays perhaps a somewhat painful start, but in the long run he has grinded points up to conquer the third place even if he could have also conquered the silver. Gold for the British Walls and silver for the New Zealander Stewart.
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