Double silver with Abdelaziz (parallel) and Fiorese (long). Stella, bronze in the 5.000 F.
We are only missing the gold. Today came another three medals at the Youth Olympic Games, two silvers with Iosra Abdelaziz (Artistic Gymnastics) on the uneven bars and Beatrice Fiorese (Athletics) in the women's long jump, and one bronze, that of Noemi Stella (Athletics) in the women's 5,000 metres. The gymnast from Segrate, with a score of 13.366, has improved by more than two and a half tenths of the qualifying score (13.100) and by a handful of milliseconds that of the General Competition (13.350), finishing behind the All-around youth Olympic champion, the Russian Seda Tutkhalyan, gold also on the beam with 13.575. Only bronze for the evening's favourite, the Chinese Yan Wang with 13.066. The number of the Coni mission in Nanjing (Iosra has not even reached 15 years old yet), therefore confirms the first YOG placement in the Gymnastics, which, in the men's, had quickly lost Andrea Russo due an injury. The Lombardy gymnast of Egyptian origin, trained by Marta Cerri between the Sport Centre of Bollate and the Academy of Milan, has now two more opportunities tomorrow, to enrich the young prize list, on the balance beam, where she will go up to last but one and in the floor, in which she will be the forerunner. In both the specialty finals she enters with the fourth personal best (TR. 13.250 - CL. 12.800). Like the little Abdelaziz in her discipline, even Noemi Stella has the satisfaction of unlocking the medal table of Azzurra Athletics. In a muggy and humid climate, the walker from Grottaglie stopped the clock at 23:38:10, preceded by the elusive Chinese Ma Zhenxia (22:22:08) and by the Mexican Valeria Ortuno Martinez (23:19:27). For the 17 year old of Don Milani Athletics, an important confirmation after the Italian student titles in 2014 on the 3,000 mt. indoor in Ancona and on the 10,000 mt. by road to Locorotondo. The other Italian medal at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center Stadium comes shortly after, thanks to Beatrice Fiorese, in the long jump. The promise of Camposampiero fails to repeat the 6.26 of qualifications so today the gold is won by the Ukrainian Yelyzaveta Baby. The 6.21 of the long jumper from Vicentina Athletics is enough to keep her behind the American Rhesa Foster, bronze with 6.17 and to celebrate with the tricolor flag on the shoulders of the runner-up.
Swimming concludes with bronze for Carini in the 200 Butterfly
At the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center Natatorium, on the final day of the swimming program, the young Italian went down into the water with five finalists, to try to end well. But only Giacomo Carini from Piacenza succeeded there, bronze in the 200m Butterfly with a time of 1:58:14, just behind the Hungarian pair Tamas Kenderesi, gold with 1:55:95, and Benjamin Gratz, second with 1:57: 71. "I improved my personal best by half a second, from 1:58:66! It is a great feeling - said the 17 year old of Aqvasport in the mixed area - After the silver in the 4x100, a medal all of my own! Today in the pool I felt really fit, even in the warm-up, I knew I could do well. But I did not expect to improve it so much. Obviously it is the Olympic atmosphere, we are all under more pressure here. I'll take a week or two of vacation now, then the winter season in short course starts. I am thinking of the European Games in Baku, another great opportunity to show what I can do, then there will be the World Junior Championships in Singapore. We hope to be able to take other major sets. I dedicate the bronze to my family, who always follows me. At home they woke up at dawn to cheer for me, I hope I have repaid them!". Among other youth Walter Bolognani and Luca Corsetti were not able to get on the podium, but they have got very close, with everyone improving apart from Quadarella, their personal best. Not that it is going badly for the Aniene Rowing Club's girl from Rome, but after the extraordinary time in the 800m freestyle, by Simona, we expected much more than 4:15:05, in the 400m, which is good enough for sixth place. Identical placement for Simone Sabbioni in the 200m backstroke, with the difference that the girl from Rimini has been left behind with 2:00:33, while having improved by a second her own personal best (2:01:36). Claudia Tarzia in the women's 100m butterfly with 59.38 (from her previous 59:53) and Alessandro Bori in the men's 100m freestyle with 49.65 (in qualifying he had already dropped for the first time under 50 with 49:91) must make do, however, with 4th place, which is difficult to digest by definition. Swimming, therefore, returns from Nanjing with a total haul of 7 medals (4 O. - 1 A - 2 B.) compared to 5 in Singapore, of which only one gold. Italia Tem, with the title in cycling this morning and the third place of Carini rises to 17 YOG podiums places.
Beggin and Teocchi (Cycling), the early bird catches the worm! The other Azzurri in the race today
Beggin and Teocchi. The Azzurri cycling pair, Sofia Beggin and Chiara Teocchi, won the gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games at the end of an exciting competition that lasted five days. The YOG program included, in fact, a team competition determined by the sum of four different specialty races: Mountain Bike (80 pt. XCO - 40 pt. XCE), BMX (pt. 12), Time trial (pt. 50) and Road (pt.66). And it is precisely at the end of this race that the Italian duo became the champions of the Youth Olympic Games champion with the total of 248 points, ahead at the finish line of the Czech Barbora Prudkova/Nikola Noskova (tot. 230) and of the Danish pair composed of Anna Kjaergaard Madsen and Pernille Mathiesen (tot. 225). Beggin, class of 1997, trained by Davide Casarotto at the ASD Breganze Millenium, with three races already won on the road in 2014, has made a great contribution in both the Time Trial and in the Cross Country Eliminator, while Teocchi, athlete of class 1996 of the Bianchi ASD Racing Division of Andrea Ferrero, Italian junior cyclo-cross champion, competed this morning with her partner in the Road Race final, having come second yesterday in the Olympic Cross Country with a time of 45:19 behind Prudkova and had halted in the BMX semi-finals. With the success of pink cycling Italy claims up to 16 youth medals, including 7 gold.
Renato Paratore, the first Olympian of Golf. Carminucci (Judo) Silver for the Mixed Team
Il Golf made his debut in the Olympic youth program, two years ahead of the Games in Rio de Janeiro, and winning is an Italian destined, therefore, to make history in this discipline. Renato Paratore from Rome was awarded this morning, the individual gold medal in the trial of 54 holes (Stroke play) with a total score of 205, from -11 to par. After starting with the handbrake on in the 18th hole of the first round (72) and yesterday's victory in the second round with 67 points, the 17 year old from Club Parco in Rome falls by a point (66) in the final challenge and wins the top spot of the Nanjing Zhongshan International Golf Club. Silver for the Swede Marcus Kinhult (207 to -9), bronze for the Thai Danthai Boonma (210 to -6). In the women's competition Virginia Elena Carta has to unfortunately settle for 4th place, tied with Germany's Olivia Cowan at a height of 214 (-2). After dominating the first round on Tuesday with 69 points to -3 from the par the 17 year old from Milan, born on Christmas Eve in 2006, lost in the second 18 holes, finishing at the bottom of the rankings with 75 points. The formula of three rounds, with respect to the canonical on four, leaves less room for recovery, and so it did not help the star of the Udine Golf Club the 70 points today and the 5th place to -2 from par. There will be time and opportunity to make up for the race in Mixed teams where Virginia Elena will have the benefit of playing alongside the new youth Olympic champion, Renato Paratore. Very satisfied naturally the Technical Director Gianluca Crespi who, superstition aside, has always been very sure of his youth team. The gold in Golf is the sixth Azzurri addition. In the evening then the bronze medal also arrives in the Intercontinental mixed team judo competition, won by the Azzurra Chiara Carminucci - 63 Kg category. - with the Xian team. Italy's total haul at the Youth Olympic Games thus rises to 15 medals.
Italy gains 13 medals with Soldati (silver team in Triathlon). Azzurri today in field.
After 5 days of competition at YOG, Italia Team gains the medal number 13. In his birthday (17 years old) friulan Giulio Soldati wins the silver medal of Triathlon with team Europa3 in relay race of mixed team continents. Supervised by coach Alessandro Bottoni, the first italian triathlete to compete at Olympic Games with his first appearance in Sydney 2000, Soldati, with the personal time of 41.24,
contributes to score the general time of 1:22:30 with British Sian Rainsley, Spanish Carmen Gomez Cortes, and Hungarian Bence Lehmann. Gold medal went to team Europa 1, leading with the time of 1:22:17. The current situation in the other facilities is the following: at Nanjing Olympic Sport Centre Stadium the qualifying turns of track and field with Prinetti Anzalapaya ( w. hammer throw), Fabbri (m. weight throw), Reina (2000 w. siepi) and Di Blasio (m. hammer throw) goes on. Pair beach Volley Irene Enzo and Michela Lantignotti contended with Latvian Graudina / Kravcenoka in the 4th qualifying match. Sprint relay race with all ships at Xuanwu Lake Rowing- Canoeing Venue. About Italy, we have seen Riccardo Peretti and Riccardo Mager in Pair (2-) and Arianna Mazzoni in women Single Sculls. Golf - male and female matches are awaited at Zhongshan international Golf club. Azzurri Virginia Elena Carta and Renato Paratore will stand important chances. Swimming - in qualifying turns we will see Ceracchi (50 fs w) Bori and Di Fabio (100 fs m), Tarzia (100 bs w). Taekewondo - Marina Rizzelli chases a final match in category + 63 kg ( women). Table tennis - Giorgia Piccolin gets back on track with the admission turn in mixed pair, while Marco Suppini (shooting sport) is engaged in team's qualification with Rifle.
Sabbioni bronze 50 mt. backstroke. Europa on podium with Alvaro (gold), De Marchi and Crovari
Simone Sabbioni from Rimini wins the bronze medal at YOG in the 50 mt. Backstroke with 25.47 behind russian Evgeny Rylov (25.09) that goes off with his personal category record, and greek Apostolos Christou, silver with 25.44.
YOG champion in 100 backstroke, visibly annoyed for the chance lost, has received congratulations by the President of CIO Thomas Bach and by London's champion in 200 mt. Butterfly stroke Chad le Clos.
"Start and stroke did not work - said in mixed zone the 17 years old from Rimini - I was stiff and kept my shoulders too closed, what a pity! Even if I was well -trained I am not a machine. Anyway it is a real pity. Now I want to regain with 200 on friday. And I am the guilty for this bad 50. I can't neither blame my coach nor my training. This match is always hard, if you don't have a good start you don't have enough time to regain. However it is a bronze medal, not so bad!"
In the other finals at Nanjing Natatorium, Alessandro Bori, despite of a personal record of 22.66, finished 4th in 50 mens freestyle, while Rachele Ceracchia stopped the time at 2:01:32 in 200 women freestyle (7th place) with russian Mullakaeva.
Good news from NOC's competitions - a kind of match we have seen for the firts time at YOG of Singapore. In equestrian sports, riding Montelini (german horse son of Conair for Contender), Matias Alvaro from Bergamo wins the gold medal with team Europa in hurdle jumping.
At the same time, with the 18 years old trained by dad Hector and by the mgr of FISE young programme area, Gianluca Bormiolo Bonacolsi, have made the scene in Xinzhuang Equestrian venue irish Micheal Duffy (Commander), british Jake Saywell (Galaxy) swedish Filip Agren (Abel) and dutch Lisa Nooren (For the Sun).
Fencing - the programme closes with a mixed teams competition (men and women) for continents. In the final match, team Europa1 lining up the azzurra Eleonora De Marchi (silver) had to surrender to team Asia - Oceania1 (26 - 30) that wins the last title of Nanjing international Expo Centre. Bronze medal, instead, to Chiara Crovari and team Europa2, winning on Asia - Oceania2 (30-25). FIS ends Its second attendance at YOG with 4 podiums: 3 silver medals and 1 bronze medal.
Italy third in the YOG's collection of medals after 3 days
The third day at the Youth Olympic Games leads Italian team up to third place in the provisional collection of medals with 8 placements on podium (4 G. - 3 S. - 2 B.) behind China and Russia. Shown below all the results achieved on august 19: sticking point for Italian beach volley. Pair Lantignotti/Enzo have surrendered to Ecuadorian Batioja and Molina (2 -0) in the third match at pool A. Riccardo Mager and Riccardo Peretti in Pair -2 (rowing) finished in 4th place at the back of Slovenia and Austria, making do with Final B. In single female, Italian Arianna Mazzoni wins her consolation semi - final and hits the Final C, the one for placements from 13 to 18. Taekwondo - Licia Martigiani gives up to Belgian Laura Roebben (7-8) at quarterfinals (cat 55 lg). Instead, fencer Guillaume Bianchi is out from 8 men's foil surrendering to French Enfuerand Roger (15-13). Swimming - apart from medal in relay race 4x100 Fs, Simone Sabbioni gets the pass to final of 50 m. backstroke with the best time (25.40), just as Alessandro Bori in 50 m. Freestyle (8th with 22.87). Claudia Tarzia stops in 50 butterfly stroke with 28.10. Table tennis - Giorgia Piccolin defeats polish Bajor (3-1) in quarters of consolation match and beats Hungarian Imre (3-2) in semi-final before surrendering to German Wan (3-0). Piccolin gets, in this way, the 18th place in general ranking. Equestrian sports - Europa team by Matias Alvaro reached the first place without penalty in the round 1 in hurdle jumping for continental NOC.
At jinniu Lake Sailing Venue Vittorio Gallinaro (6pt -19pt) and Carolina Albano (12pt -8pt) score two regattas in the Byte, while Ruggero Lo Mauro and Giulia Alagna's sail Dinghy tecno 293 remain dry due to the low level of wind at field B. Golf - in his Olympic debut, Virginia Elena Carta leads the provisional rank with 69 points - 3 from Par, accompanied by Chinese Cheng, Korean Lee and Japanese Shinohara. At the men's field Renato Paratore gets the 17th place with 72 points. In closing the cycling - In the BMX team's competition Chiara Teocchi doesn't go beyond the 6th place in 1 of the 3 women's semi-finals, while Federico Mandelli scores the same placing in men's final.
Shower of YOG medals with Esposito, Quadarella, the FS/M (Swimming) relay and Crovari (Fencing)
The journey of the Italia Team at the Youth Olympic Games continues at a very encouraging pace. After that of Simone Sabbioni and Nicolangelo Di Fabio, today came another double gold in swimming, this time all female. Simona Quadarella from Rome (Aniene Rowing Club), while competing in the slow heat for an entry time of 8:53.70, won the final of the women's 800 meters with a personal record of 8:35:39, while the Neapolitan Ambra Esposito, who yesterday had finished in last place in the 100 backstroke, won the final of the 200, in a tie with the American Hannah Moore, stopping the clock at 2:10.42. Third Italian performance ever, only Pellegrini and Filippi have done better than the "almost" of age (she turns 18 on 12 September) of the Naples Rowing Club.
Absolute values that go beyond the context of the category of the event in China. Two surprises, then, but only for the opponents, as the Technical Manager of the FIN Youth Teams Walter Bolognani knew very well the potential of his Azzurri team. Silver, however, for the men's 4x100 freestyle relay race composed of Sabbioni, Di Fabio, Giacomo Carini and Alessandro Bori with a time of 3:22:29 behind Great Britain (3:21:19). Silver also in the fencing, thanks to Chiara Crovari of Terni who in the women's sabre has given up only in the final to the Russian Alina Moseyko for 15 thrusts to 10. The fencer from the Dragon Academy, trained in Nanjing by the Master Anna Ferni and in company of Giuseppe De Santis, had already stood out this year by winning the Mediterranean Sabre Championship. Chiaretta, as her friends call her, has not turned17 years old yet, she attends Secondary School and has a dream, common to all the young people in the YOG Village, to take part in the grown up Olympic Games. With four podiums today the spoils of Italy rises to 8 in the overall medals table with 4 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze!
On the second day Italy is fourth in the YOG medal count
After two days of competition Italy with 4 medals (2 O. - 1 A - 1 B) is in fourth place in the medal table of the Youth Olympic Games, behind China, Russia and Hungary. Beyond the podium these are other placings of the azzurri on 18 August:
In Fencing, épée, Riccardo Abate from Piedmont went out in the sixteenths against the Hungarian Patrik Esztergalyos (13-12). Giulio Soldati, Triathlon, with the total time of 55.40 finishes in seventh place. In the Beach Volleyball the Lantignotti/Enzopair achieved two sets to nil in the second game of the female tournament against the Kazakh Lassyuta/Pimenova. In the general qualifying Competition of the Female Artistic gymnastics the gymnast Iosra Abdelaziz gained entry to the final at 24 all-around with the 5th overall score (53.150) and in the finals of specialty floor exercises (4th with 12.800), beam (4th with 13.250) and uneven bars (2nd with 13.100), while in the vault, after the excellent 14.000 for the General she was not able to execute the second jump. In Table Tennis Giorgia Piccolin, after losing by 3 to 1 in the last match of their group against the Indian Mukherjee Sutirtha, ended up winning the match against the Ugandan Seera Florence due to the opponent surrendering in the consolation tournament. Giulia Alagna, after three races is sixth in the ranking of the Techno 293 female windsurfing, by a tenth, a ninth position and a great victory, obtained in the second race of the day. Carolina Albano in the women's fleet of the Byte CII centreboard has obtained a 5-7 of the day and is fifth in the overall ranking. A rather more complicated departure for Ruggero Lo Mauro (Techno 293 M) 11th (14-8-8 partials) and Vittorio Gallinaro (Byte CII M) 23rd (18-23). The youth Olympics Chiara Carminucci in the 63 kg Judo ended with two defeats, albeit in measuring, with the Colombian Brigitte Carabali and in the recoveries, with Nokutula Banda of Zambia. The Azzurra boat of the Coxless Pair ends in the rematches. Riccardo Peretti and Riccardo Mager finish, in fact, in fourth place behind Romania, Turkey and Slovenia. In the Single women Arianna Manzoni was third at the finish line of the recovery behind the French Camille Jullet and the Croatian Marina Kaic, having to settle for Semi final B, which is valid for places from the 7th down. In cycling Manuel Todaro stops the time of male Time trial at 5: 20.91 and in 13th, while in the women's Sofia Beggin with 6:03.70 is 4th. The results of the two Azzurri contribute to the total of the team, the one that allocates the medal at the end of the four heats. In the Swimming Ambra Esposito touches for eighth in the 100 metres backstroke women with 1:02:55. Insufficient to access the final with the same placement, the sixth, and Rachele Ceracchi in the semi finals of the women's 100 freestyle with 56.22, both Giacomo Carini in the 100 butterfly with 54.69. Claudia Tarzia is out in the heats of the 200 women's Butterfly with 2:15:32
De Marchi (Fencing) silver Epee, Zanni (Weights) bronze 62 kg.
Two more italian places on podium, after the medals in swimming.
Fencing - Eleonora De Marchi wins a sword silver medal, leaving the title to south korean Lee Sinhee (13 - 15). The 16 years old from Castel Franco Veneto left her mark on YOG. A victory coming after 10 years that Valentina Vezzali won the gold in Athens 2004. Trained by Flavio Puccini, she studied at linguistic high school and loves Aerosmith. Later the junior world title 2014 and european in 2013 she added another important result to his rising career.
Weightlifting - Friulan Mirko Zanni wins bronze medal in YOG 62kg cat. with the total score of 255. Not so far from thai Sakada Meeboon, silver with score 256. Olympic title to north korean Jongju PAK, leading the podium with 263 kg. In the rip off exercise, the 16 years old from ASD Pesistica Pordenone stopped on 120 kg missing the third shoot with 124. During his routine the italian trained by coach Dino Marcuz, tried - with no success - to lift 140, after a nice starting with 135 kg. Gold in leap and silver in total at European Championships Under 17 in Ciechanow, Poland, Zanni - a boy passionate about fishing and studying at technical agrarian institute in Spilimbergo - confirms one of the most brilliant sportsman in the italian review.
"I can't even figure out what I have been able to do - said Mirko - some friends from home phoned me, but I did not satisfy them so much actually. It doesn't mean I did not believe in this. I made a huge sacrifice in these last months just for losing 4 kg. I only wanted to reach my goal. After good results at European match I wish this medal could lead me up to a stellar career. I usually say I do not have idols except myself. In this way I can rely on me, on my ability. That's why I would dedicate this medal to my family and my nutritionist for supporting me".
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