At the Italian judo championships, Sofia Longo won a silver medal in the 40 kg Beginners B (under 14) category. After a 2022 of ups and downs, a 2023 of recovery with silver in Puglia and Lombardy and the young girl from Romagna at the top of the ranking, before a fourth place in Olbia and the new silver in Pescara.
In the Lazio match, after having missed the first round as the top seed, she faced Lazio’s Longobardi in the first match, overcoming her before wazari (I scored) and right at the end of time scoring a spectacular ippon. Sofia had access to the semi-final against the first in the ranking, the only one of Sofia’s opponents who had lost only one match in the whole season only due to sanctions without ever taking a point against, Udine’s Alice Bronzin. The two climbed onto the tatami determined to reach the final. Alice immediately attacks and tries to neutralize Sofia’s holds, which she initially suffers and risks. She then changes strategy, crosses the holds, anticipates her opponent and starts in a masterfully executed eri-seoi-nage and pins the number 1 seed obtaining a clear victory. She is therefore in the final against the Ligurian Francesca Sini. Unfortunately, for the Riccione native the last challenge was very short. Sini sets the holds well. Sofia suffers from that situation and improvises an attack to which the Ligurian responds promptly by marking “Ippon”.
In the Italian A1 under 14 championship the judo section was the best club in Emilia-Romagna. We are satisfied with Sofia’s result and with the season that has just ended. «Now we will take a few days of rest – underlines the technical director Giuseppe Longo – and then we will start again to prepare for the next season with ambitious projects in our heads and hearts for all our competitors and to start the little ones towards the path that their older companions have sailed in recent years. I would like to thank the sports psychologist Alessia Bruno, the physiotherapist Annalisa Morri, the teachers Danilo Nicolì of Gambettola and Enrico Nanna of Rimini, the Judo Imola led by Vito Ponzi and Federico Riusso of Sakura Forlì.
2023-12-14 15:20:30
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