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The Friulians at the Olympics, the disappointment of Mara Navarria knocked out in the second round: “Now I’m only thinking about the team competition”

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TOKYO. Unfortunately Mara Navarria’s individual race did not go as we all hoped. Carlino’s swordsman stopped in the second round, bumping into the 186 centimeters of the Estonian Katrina Lehis, who in the following round also dominated Rossella Fiamingo (15-7). Out in the quarters also the other blue, Federica Isola. Now all medal hopes are pinned on Tuesday’s team competition.

“I’m sorry I didn’t hit my target. Now the thought is only for the team test together with the other companions ”: this is the only comment released – Saturday 24 July – by the 36-year-old from Friuli, extremely disappointed by the unexpected result. Thanks to Navarria, Fiamingo, Isola and Alberta Santuccio, Italy has great chances of getting on the podium and transforming the blue expedition of the female sword into triumph.

The blues will debut in the quarterfinals against Russia, who will start with Violetta Kolobova, Violetta Khrapina, Yulia Lichagina (overtaken by Mara Navarria in the first assault of the individual match on Saturday) and the nineteen year old Aizanat Murtazaeva who, starting from the last place of the ranking, ended the race in fourth place, and who in 2019 won individual silver in the U20 World Cup round in Udine.

The hypothetical semifinal would see the blue against one between Poland, winner of the only team World Cup race held this year, and Katrina Lehis’s Estonia. On Saturday 24th Italy rejoiced thanks to the saber, a weapon in which Luigi Samele took home a splendid silver, bowing only to King Aaron Szilàghy who thus won his third consecutive Olympics, after London and Rio.

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In the same race at the start, as technician, also the regional Christian Rascioni, long-time teacher of Michela Battiston at Gemina Scherma together with his wife Sara Vicenzin and now coach of the American Daryl Homer, silver and Rio 2016, but yesterday out in the first round of direct .

Returning to Mara Navarria, the match of the Army swordsman stationed at Asu in Udine had started with a controlled match from start to finish against the Russian Yulia Lichagina (15-12 the final result); then came the cold shower with Katrina Lehis, an athlete capable of winning the European Championship in 2018, but who in the same year Mara had overtaken at the World Championships in Wuxi, in which she won gold, 15-9.

At the Makuhari Messe in Tokyo the Friulian swordswoman finished in tenth place, after a one-way match in which Carlino’s athlete has never managed to worry a rival in great dust. Success smiled on Sun Yiwen from China. –

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