Two other medals for Italy in Tokyo 2020. The blue Manfredi Rizza won silver in the sprint canoe, in the K1 200 meters. The photo finish was necessary to establish the order of arrival. The blue finished in 2nd place in 35 “080, gold to the Hungarian Sandor Totka (35” 035) and bronze to the British Liam Healt (35 “202). Read also The Italian sprint canoe returns to the Olympic podium after 13 years (Beijing 2008) For the Italia Team this is the 10th silver medal in Tokyo 2020.
Medal also for Gregorio Paltrinieri who conquered the bronze in the 10 km of cross-country swimming. The blue champion, who had come from “months of hell” as he himself declared after contracting mononucleosis and upset his preparation for the Japanese Games, gave his all by winning another medal after silver in the 800 freestyle in pool. The cross-country swimming competition Twenty-six athletes were at the start for the 7 laps of the quadrilateral formed by four 1435-meter buoys of the Odaiba marine park. Water temperature 29.5 degrees, air 27.5 and humidity around 80%. The world champion Florian Wellbrock immediately starts strong and takes the margin: the German closes the first lap in 15’49”3. Followed by the 24-year-old Frenchman Marc-Antoine Olivier (Olympic bronze and world silver, as well as second behind Paltrinieri in the 5 km) at 6”4, the Hungarian Kristof Rasovszky at 13”6 and the other German Rob Muffels who leads the group at 21 ” 2, with Mario Sanzullo passing twelfth at 26 ” 1 and Gregorio Paltrinieri seventeenth at 31 ” 9. Wellbrock always leading the passage at 2.9 km in 31’20 ” 5, but Olivier and Rasovszky halved the delay from the German; Paltrinieri goes back to fourth place at 33 ” 5. Halfway through the race (5.2 km) Wellbrock is back in the lead with a few seconds ahead of Rasovszky and Olivier; Paltrinieri remains at 15 ” 5. Three laps from the end, after refueling, German, Hungarian and French always occupy the top three positions; but the 26 year old from Carpi reduces the delay to just 8 ” 3. Then Paltrinieri climbs to second place with a 5”5 delay from Wellbrock two kilometers from the end; Rasovszky, Olivier and Roditi remain on the blue’s feet, they all miss the last refueling and Wellbrock returns to attack one kilometer from the end. Only the Hungarian takes a hit and remains four seconds behind the German. Paltrinieri loses a few meters and goes to 13 seconds, marked by Olivier and the Israeli. A thousand meters from the end Wellbrock increases his kick, Raszovsky loses a few meters; the blue in turn accelerates and detaches Olivier. Wellbrock is impregnable. Paltrinieri finds superhero energies and joins Rasovszky at the entrance to the funnel; but the Hungarian is a sprint specialist and is silver. Paltrinieri takes a bronze that is worth gold in 1h49’01”1 while Mario Sanzullo closes 14th in 1h53’08”6.
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