Children and grandchildren of art grow up on the edge of the world. From Colombia and Latvia come encouraging stories for the future of our sport, from judo to athletics. And these are stories that have already known surnames as protagonists. Giacomo Gamba is the son of Ezio Gamba, a historic number of Italian judo, Olympic champion in Moscow 1980 and later also became a Russian citizen (it was Putin himself who gave him citizenship).
Yesterday with four victories Giacomo won the European Open in Riga in the 81 kg category. 23 years old, the Carabiniere from Brescia beat the Latvian Ivans Mihalovs, the Israelis Guy Kochav and Yaheli Lavi and in the final the German Lukas Vennekold. It is a great victory that in addition to bringing a historical surname of our sport back to the headlines, compensates the son of art who last year had to deal with two months off due to mononucleosis.
“I am really very satisfied – said Luigi Guido, technical manager of the Carabinieri -. Giacomo had a stubborn race, he never lost his way.”
In Colombia, on the other hand, on Saturday the under 20 world gold in hammer throwing for Rachele Mori, able to beat the bad weather because her final was interrupted for four hours due to rain. The Leghorn won with the measure of 67.21 meters. 19 years old, registered with the Fiamme Gialle, Rachele is the grandson of Fabrizio Mori who was absolute world champion in Seville in 1999 in the 400 hurdles race. For the blue sector it is a magical moment, only a few days ago Sara Fantini in Eugene was fourth.
In Cali, in the under 20 world championships, bronze for Marta Armani in the long jump, with the personal best of 6.52 meters, behind the Colombian Natalia Linares and the gold medal of the Bulgarian Plamena Mitkova (6.66 meters).
