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Judo, a gold and a bronze medal for Palermo at the European Championships for athletes with Down syndrome

The two Palermo blues of the judo national team Davide Migliore and Gabriele Zarbo return with a gold medal and a bronze medal from the European Championships for athletes with Down syndrome that will end today in Ferrara. In the blue delegation with them at the Suds Open Euro Trigames 2021 also the Palermo technician Giosuè Giglio, coach of the Italian national judo team together with Chiara Meucci and Paola Baroncelli, the latter national technical reference of judo Fisdir.

The Italian judo team, made up of eight athletes, took home six medals and also won the team competition, organized for the first time in an experimental phase, leaving behind Poland and Portugal.

Davide Migliore, judoka of Asd Special Boys, won the gold medal in the men’s category -60 kg, while Gabriele Zarbo of the Ssd Conca d’Oro in the same weight category won the bronze medal.
The two Sicilian athletes were the protagonists of fights of the highest technical level, gaining the utmost admiration of the public and of the technicians of the foreign delegations.

“It was a wonderful experience – says the national team coach Giosuè Giglio – to live everyday life and find yourself in a group with the boys but above all to share joys and emotions with them after a long time spent dealing with the limitations for Covid. I will never forget the embrace of David and Gabriel 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 they follow their passions, that sacrifice and work are necessary to achieve a great goal but above all that disability can and must be seen as an opportunity. We should all take an example from them ”.

Promoted by the SUDS (Union for athletes with Down syndrome), by Fisdir (Italian Paralympic Sports Federation of Relational Intellectuals), 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, the Euro Trigames saw the participation of about five hundred athletes who came to Ferrara from seventeen different countries to compete in eight different disciplines including athletics, 5-a-side football, judo, swimming, synchronized swimming, basketball, tennis and table tennis.

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