Pugliese, born in 1992, was a national record holder: until today he had won gold at the Italian absolute championships. “I am incredulous. Victory dedicated to my wife ”, Massimo’s hot words. The blue medal table is enriched with the thirty-fifth podium.
Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Stano is first in the march: it is the seventh gold for the Italian expedition
For the blue team there are 7 gold medals, 10 silver medals and 18 bronzes. Another blue undertaking therefore: it is Massimo Stano’s turn in the 20 km at the Olympics: the athlete of the Fiamme Oro wins a historic gold medal with a time of 1:21:05 after a heroic race against the scorching heat and the humidity of the Japanese capital. Stano leads in the leading group for the entire race and then does not give up in the last kilometers, detaching his opponents: silver and bronze for the Japanese Ikeda and Yamanishi. “I’m really happy, incredulous. I hope it’s not a dream, I don’t want to go to sleep like Tamberi said. I still have to realize, I don’t know how long it will take but I hope as little as possible to look further ahead ”, said Stano after his triumph in the 20km walk. “From the victories of Jacobs and Tamberi I got an extra boost. I dedicate this medal to my daughter Sophie and to my wife Fatima who supports me and bears me ”concluded the athlete from Bari.
The medal table of the Italian expedition to the Japanese Olympics
Oro
- Vito Dell’Aquila (taekwondo, category -58 kg)
- Valentina Rodini and Federica Cesarini (rowing, light weights)
- Gianmarco Tamberi (high jump)
- Marcell Jacobs (100 meters)
- Tita-Banti (sail)
- Pippo Ganna, Simone Consonni, Francesco Lamon e Jonathan Milan (Cycling Pursuit Teams)
- Massimo Stano (10 km walk)
Silver
- Luigi Samele (fencing, saber)
- Thomas Ceccon, Alessandro Miressi, Lorenzo Zazzeri and Manuel Frigo (swimming, 4 × 100 freestyle)
- Diana Bacosi (skeet, skeet)
- Daniele Garozzo (fencing, foil)
- Giorgia Bordignon (weightlifting, category 64 kg)
- Luca Curatoli, Enrico Berrè, Gigi Samele and Aldo Montano (team saber)
- Gregorio Paltrinieri (swimming, 800 freestyle)
- Mauro Nespoli (archery)
- Vanessa Ferrari (artistic gymnastics)
- Manfredi Rizza (canoe sprint)
Bronze
- Elisa Longo Borghini (road cycling, online test)
- Odette Giuffrida (judo, category -52 kg)
- Mirko Zanni (weightlifting, 67 kg category)
- Nicolò Martinenghi (swim, 100 breaststroke)
- Maria Centracchio (judo, category -63 kg)
- Rossella Fiamingo, Federica Isola, Mara Navarria, Alberta Santuccio (fencing, team sword)
- Federico Burdisso (swimming, 200 butterfly)
- Matteo Castaldo, Marco Di Costanzo, Matteo Lodo and Giuseppe Vicino (rowing, 4 without)
- Stefano Oppo and Pietro Willy Ruta (rowing, double lightweights)
- Arianna Errigo and Alice Volpi, Martina Batini ed Erika Cipressa (fencing, team foil)
- Lucilla Boari (archery)
- Simona Quadarella (swimming, 800 freestyle)
- Irma Testa (boxing, featherweights) – medal number 600 for Italy at the Olympics
- Simone Pizzolato (weightlifting)
- Thomas Ceccon, Nicolo Martinenghi, Federico Burdisso, Alessandro Miressi (4 × 100 mixed men’s swim)
- Gregorio Paltrinieri (swimming, 10 kilometers of cross-country skiing)
- Elia Viviani (Ciclismo everyone).
