Third days of competitions for Italy that gets back on track starting from the 11 medals won so far in these Paralympics. Podiums all coming from swimming and it is always from the pool that the top-3 chances will be concentrated. To follow then the beginnings of the blues for archery, rowing, athletics and sitting volleyball. Fencing, table tennis and horse riding are also at the center of the scene.
Right away the list of matches with the Azzurri at the start:
ITALIANS COMPETING PARALYMPICS 2021
27 AUGUST
Archery
Eleonora Sarti / Maria Andrea Virgilio – women’s Compound Open ranking round (2 hours)
Asia Pellizzari – women’s W1 ranking round (2 hours)
Matteo Bonacina / Giampaolo Cancelli – men’s Compound Open ranking round (7 hours)
Athletics
Oxana Corso – women’s 100 meter T35 heats (3:07 hours)
Finals (6:27)
Equitation
Sara Morganti / Carola Semperboni – Dressage Individual Test Grade I (9 am)
Francesca Salvadè – Dressage Individual Test Grade II (12:14 pm)
Boating
Chiara Nardo / Gianfilippo Mirabile – PR2 mixed doubles (3:50 am)
Lorenzo Bernard / Cristina Scazzosi / Greta Muti / Alessandro Brancato – PR3 Quattro with (4:50 am)
Sitting volley
Japan – Italy – preliminaries (3 hours)
I swim
Drums
Misha Palazzo – men’s 200 S14 freestyle (2:12 am)
Giulia Ghiretti – Female 50 S5 butterflies (2:54 am)
Carlotta Gilli – women’s 400 S13 freestyle (3:39 am)
Finals
Alessia Berra – 100 female S12 backstrokes (10:06 am)
Xenia Francesca Palazzo – 100 female S8 backstrokes (10:21 am)
Men’s 200 S14 Freestyle (10:28 am)
50 female S5 butterflies (11.31 am)
Women’s 400 S13 freestyle (12:33 pm)
Table tennis
Qualifications
Andrea Borgato / Federico Falco – Men’s Singles MS1 (2:40 am)
Matteo Parenzan – Men’s Singles MS6 (2:40 am)
Michela Brunelli – Women’s Singles WS3 (6 hours)
Matteo Parenzan – Men’s Singles MS6 (10:20)
Quarter finals
WS1 Women’s Singles (5:22)
Giada Rossi – Women’s Singles WS3 (11:40 am)
Singles MS9 male
Fencing
Preliminary
Edoardo Giordan, Emanuele Lambertini, Marco Cima – Men’s sword team (1:30 am)
Semifinals
Men’s sword team (8:00 am)
Bronze finish
Men’s sword team (10:30 am)
Gold finish
Men’s Sword Team (11:30 am)
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