Le continue Tokyo 2020 Olympics and three more medals arrive for Italy. To update the medal table we think the women with the silver of Giorgia Bordignon in weightlifting 64 kg and two bronze medals. The first arrives in judo thanks to Maria Centracchio, while the women's sword team beat China by conquering the lowest step of the podium. A shot of pride for Mara Navarria, Rossella Fiamingo, Federica Isola and Alberta Santuccio, defeated in the semifinals by Estonia.
The silver in Tokyo 2020 by Giorgia Bordignon
Italy wins a medal thanks to Giorgia Bordignon, silver in weightlifting, category 64 kg women. The blue lifted 232 kilos. The 34-year-old from Arsago Seprio (Varese) was the protagonist of an extraordinary race that allowed her to reach the double Italian record: 104 kg in the snatch and 128 in the momentum. Not only records because Giorgia Bordignon has entered history as the first Italian woman to win a medal in this competition.
Prison policewoman, the athlete finished in third place the snatch competition with 104 kg (improved personal best of and Italian specialty). She then improved her momentum twice: first with a 126 kg and then with a 128. The only one to beat her was the Canadian Charron. Five years after the last Olympic Games, Giorgia Bordignon thus improves the sixth place obtained in Rio. Her career began at 16 when she tried weightlifting, then she moved to Puglia to train. In his palmares stand out a silver medal and two continental bronze medals. Very active on social media, she shares lots of shots in the gym.
Maria Centracchio, bronze in judo
Bronze in judo 63 kg per Maria Centroccio, 26 years old originally from Isernia. A medal arrived after winning the match with Dutchman Juul Franssen at the golden score. This is the first Molise medal at the Games in an individual discipline. In the semifinals the blue had lost to ippon against Slovenian Tina Trstenjak, Olympic champion in Rio 2016.
These are his words at the end of the race a Tokyo 2020: “All the people who know me know that I have always said: the difficult thing is to get to the Olympics, then I'll see it. Odette Giuffrida's medal (bronze two days ago too, ed) gave me an incredible boost. We have a great feeling, being there for each other is an added value "he continued. At the end a thought also to his region: “Molise exists, and leads strongly. I experienced a terrible 2020, first mononucleosis and then positivity at Covid. I dedicate it to many, even to my Molise: I know they are going crazy on social networks ".
Il Municipality of Rocchetta a Volturno (Isernia) will confer honorary citizenship on Maria Centracchio, also paying homage to her father, Bernardo, a native of the town and first teacher of the athlete. “Maria's participation - reads a note from the Municipality - is a precious testimony of how important it is to never give up”.
Spada, the bronze won by the women's team
Mara Navarria, Rossella Fiamingo, Federica Isola and Alberta Santuccio they have conquered the bronze medal in the women's team sword test. The four girls have thus partially redeemed the defeat in the semifinal (42-34) against the surprising Estonia and the absence of blue on the podium in the individual race. Born in 1994, Alberta Santuccio was his debut at the Olympics, a natural talent who at 15 was the first Italian standard bearer at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. At the age of 7 he decided to devote himself to the sword by abandoning dance.
Mara Navarria instead the medal is an authentic dream come true. She discovered she was pregnant during the London 2012 Olympic Games. At the end of the competition she said: “I really wanted this medal, which came after so many sacrifices. My son Samuele is now at the summer camp with his friends, I'm in Tokyo. It can also be a message to all women who want to become a mother: if you organize yourself well, you can do everything ".
Originally from Vercelli, Federica Isola, 21 years old, he played a great Olympics, even touching the medal in the individual test, where he narrowly missed the semifinals. A talent born at the age of 5, he always said he didn't think he would join the team so young.
The most famous and titled of the team is Rossella Fiamingo, born in Catania July 14, 1991. Silver medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, the first individual Olympic medal in the history of Italian women's sword, she won the gold medal in individual sword at the 2014 Kazan and Moscow 2015 fencing world championships. In the same years she was awarded the Golden Collar for sporting merit, the highest recognition of the Coni, reserved for the winners of world championships in Olympic disciplines. In 2016 the President of the Republic awarded her the honor of "Officer of Merit of the Italian Republic".
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