Ruggero Tita, the computer engineer who has always dreamed of Olympic triumph. And in the house of Sant’Agnese there is a huge celebration between tears and just two words “Grandi, Oro”

TOKYO. The waters of Enoshima they are tinged with blue. AND Ruggero Tita gives a fantastic gold medal to the tricolor sailing movement and to Trentino. Paired with the Roman Caterina Banti, the 29 year old born in Rovereto and resident in the municipality of Naked Torbole he graduated Olympic champion in the Mixed class Nacra 17. Already certain of the silver medal, with the sixth place at the end of the Medal Race, the blue couple triumphed.

A crazy result that obtained by Tita and Banti which, after graduating World champions e Champions of Europe, they were also able to dominate the test Olympic and get on the top step of the podium of the review a Five Circles.

For 21 years the flag did not fly on the top step of the podium in a sailing test: a Sidney 2000 had been the phenomenal Alessandra Sensini to give a gold to Italy. Now it is the turn of the “terrible” duo formed by the engineer from Trentino and the polyglot from the capital (the Banti fluent in Arabic, English, French, Spanish and Turkish).

And to say that Aunt he “discovered” the sail quite late after trying thel kitesurfing, surfing, snowkiting, freeride, paraglide, snowboard and ski frestyle. At the age of 12 he met the discipline in which today he is the number in the world and he never gave up. Registered for the Sports Group of the Yellow Flames, Tita is the perfect example that “wanting is power” and, in fact, while reaching the highest levels of the discipline he also graduated in Computer Engineering at the University of Trento (here our SPECIAL on him).

The race of the Italian couple? Tactically wonderful: prudent at the start and at the crossings, then they marked the British boat (which finished in second place, Germany third) to the finish line. The Azzurri dominated the 12 fleet races, building a crucial advantage to be able to manage the Final with greater confidence. And, at the most important moment, they were clear and cold.

The party in the house of the gods was obviously huge parents of Ruggero Tita, father Mauro – also former blue – and mother Mirta, in Sant’Agnese, where relatives and friends had gathered to watch the Medal Race. Worn and kneeling in front of the television broadcasting the images of the triumph, the fiancée Francesca of the new Olympic champion who told how for five years the Trentino sailor has been working hard to prepare this appointment with the desire to realize what is the dream for all sportsmen in the world from 1896 to today.

And atTrentino Sailing Association of Caldonazzo a real torcida started: there it all started and today coaches, managers and fans all gathered together to celebrate Ruggero who, as they recall, even as a child arrived before the start of training and personally chose the boat to use. In short, the stuff of the champion was already there.

“Success is the result of a job started five years ago – these are the words of Aunt at the end of the race – and every day we dedicated it to preparing for this event. We have won many medals in the meantime, but the thought was on this event “.

A lot of emotion for the two athletes at the moment of getting on the podium, with the president of Coni Giovanni Malagò who personally rewarded Tita and Banti who, after a hug, brought their hand to their hearts and sang the hymn of Mameli loudly, despite the mask that covered their faces