TREVISO – Mission accomplished for the synchromesh Callegari and Piccoli. The five-circle dream for Cardin and Stangherlin fades. The goal of the Italian team of synchronized to participate in the Tokyo Olympics has been fully achieved. Team competitions in Barcelona are decisive. Italy with the Treviso Beatrice Callegari (Marina Militare / Montebelluna) 29 year old from Fossalunga already blue in Rio 2016 (fifth) and Enrica Piccoli (Montebelluna / Fiamme Oro) 22 year old from Caerano, won the team qualification test with 184.0249 points and automatically granted the Olympic pass to the Duo as well. The blues had made their debut on Thursday by winning in the Technical Routine, placing a serious mortgage on Tokyo. Yesterday the Free Routine was worth 93.2332 points (27.9000 for the execution, 37.3332 artistic impression and 28.000 for the difficulties). Thursday’s exercise guaranteed the first position with 90.7917 brilliantly confirmed yesterday.
Behind the blue are the usual opponents: Spain (182.5206) and Greece (175.9000) who hit the last 2 passes available. First among the excluded the USA (175.7882). Qualified teams are Japan, Russia, Australia, Egypt, China, Ukraine, Canada, Italy, Spain and Greece. There will be 22 Doubles qualified for the Games: the previous 10 countries are joined by New Zealand, South Africa, Kazakhstan and Mexico.
The blues performed yesterday in the exercise entitled Le Guerriere with choreography by Anastasia Ermakova and Final Fight music by Antongiulio Frulio. Barcelona was the last resort to reach the qualifications in consideration of the long inactivity caused by Covid-19 while in some countries it continued.
«We are very very happy with this result, because it comes after a series of injuries and in the home of our antagonists – the technical director Patrizia Giallombardo pointed out at the end of the race -. The girls were perfect and swam flawlessly. It is the first 93.0000 that Italy takes and this represents an important growth. We brought a very difficult routine and it was well received. We now have five weeks before the Olympic Games to further improve and grow further. I dedicate the Olympic qualification to all athletes and all the staff of the national team. We leave behind a very hard year and a half, especially psychologically: the girls had not competed in the national team since the World Cup in Gwangju ».
KARATE
In Paris, in the Olympic qualifying tournament Sara Cardin (kumite, -55kg) was defeated by the Polish Dorota Banaszczyk in the third round (quarter-finals) by 1-0, after enjoying a bye at the debut and defeating Uzbekistan Bakhriniso Babaeva in the second round (2-1). Banaszczyk was then defeated in the semifinals, also losing hopes for the repechage at the 2018 world champion.
The Olympic dream fades also for Giorgia Stagherlin. The blue from Castello di Gedego at the World Cup in Budapest was eliminated in the first round (cat. Up to 78 kg). At her first participation in a senior world championship, she was very unlucky in the draw: she faced the Japanese Mami Umeki, winner of the season of the Grand Slam of Tashkent, world champion in 2015, silver 2017 and no. 5 of the Olympic ranking.
Francesco Coppola
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