Euro Trigames 2021: the best Palermo blue judokas and Zarbo on the roof of Europe. The Suds open euro Trigames 2021, the European championships for athletes with Down syndrome, conclude today in Ferrara. Promoted by the Union for athletes with Down syndrome, by the Italian Paralympic Sports Federation of Intellectual-Relational Sports), by the Italian Paralympic Committee, by the Emilia-Romagna Region, by the Municipality of Ferrara, by the Regional School Office and by the University of Ferrara, Euro Trigames are yet another demonstration of how sport is an incredible tool to create inclusion, integration and an opportunity for socializing. About 500 participants came to Ferrara from 17 different countries and challenged each other in 8 different disciplines, athletics, 5-a-side football, judo, swimming, synchronized swimming, basketball, tennis, table tennis.
Among the national teams called up for judo for Italy, two athletes from Palermo, Davide Migliore and Gabriele Zarbo, but also a Palermo technician Giosuè Giglio, coach of the Italian national judo team together with the technicians Chiara Meucci and Paola Baroncelli, the latter national technical referent of the judo Fisdir. The Italian judo team, made up of 8 athletes, took home 6 medals but also won the team competition, organized for the first time in an experimental phase, leaving behind Poland and Portugal. It is Davide Migliore, judoka of the Asd special boys to win the gold medal in the men’s category -60 kg, while Zarbo Gabriele of the Ssd Conca d’oro of Palermo in the same weight category wins the bronze medal. The two Sicilian athletes were the protagonists of some fights of the highest technical level, obtaining the utmost admiration of the present public and of the technicians of the foreign delegations.
“It was a wonderful experience after a long time due to Covid, living everyday life – says the national coach Giosuè Giglio – and meeting in a group with the boys but above all sharing joys and emotions with them. I will never forget the embrace of Davide and Gabriele after the end of the meeting. Behind that embrace there was all the desire to show the whole world that they are not the last, that to follow their passions, that sacrifice and work are necessary to achieve a great objective but above all that disability can and must be seen as an opportunity. We should all take an example from them “.
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