Olympics, a silver and two bronzes for the blue team sword and judo and lifting, Pellegrini historical qualification

Three other medals to enrich the Italian medal table a Tokyo 2020: the first bronze came in women’s Judo -63kg with Maria Centracchio which surpasses Juul Franssen after the three shido collected by the Dutchman. Three sanctions that certified the defeat of Franssen and the medal for the twenty-six year old from Isernia. Shortly after, the second bronze medal of the day also arrived, the sixth for the blues in this Olympics, thanks to the fencing girls in the team sword specialty: the blue team, composed of Rossella Fiamingo, Federica Isola, Mara Navarria and Alberta Santuccio, she beat her Chinese colleagues 23-21 in the final, immediately lengthening in the first attacks and managing well the advantage acquired in the second part of the race. Finally, the silver of Giorgia Bordignon in weightlifting, category 64 kg women; this is the medal number 12 for the Azzurri at the Tokyo Games, the second in weightlifting.

Swimming

Swimming protagonist in the week of competitions in Tokyo, the result obtained by is historic Federica Pellegrini in the semifinal of the 200 freestyle: he manages to qualify for the final with the seventh time. For the Divina it is the fifth Olympic final in the same specialty, the first woman to do it, equaling the record of Michael Phelps. Fourth place for Thomas Ceccon in the final of the 100 backstroke who shortly afterwards managed, together with Meressi, to pass the heats of the 100 freestyle; the boys of the 4×200 relay fly to the final. To close the day of swimming the heats of the 800 freestyle with the entry into the pool of Gregorio Paltrinieri who qualified with the last time in 7’47 ” 73, managing to hit the target despite being heavily debilitated by mononucleosis which hit him a few weeks before the Games. On the other hand, Gabriele Detti was eliminated.

The other blues

Positive day also in other disciplines for the blues starting from waterpolo with the splendid comeback of Settebello, in the second match with Greece. Ends in a tie 6-6 with the Azzurri who had started the last quarter under 2-6. Wins and convinces women’s volleyball that overwhelms the opponents of Turkey for 3 sets to 1 obtaining the second success in group B. In tennis Camila Giorgi flies to the quarterfinals in the women’s tennis tournament after beating the Czech Karolina Pliskova with a 6-4 6-2.