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It’s a calm warm Friday morning in mid-September — 70 swimmers dive into the waters of Lone Star Lake for a 5k swim at the CSCAA Open Water Championship in Lawrence, Kansas.  For freshman swimmer Ilaria Murzilli, this wasn’t her first time swimming a 5k. But, where she once saw the ocean floor, this time around she only saw darkness.  From that cam...

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With still one day of competitions to go, Italy accelerates its sprint in the general medals table of the SUDS Open Euro TriGames - competition for Athletes with Down Syndrome - thanks to athletics and synchronized swimming. Moreover, the medals were accompanied by two world records signed by Nicole Orlando. The "Azzurra" retouched the record in th...

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Gary Hunt and Rhiannan Iffland took another big step towards retaining their Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series titles at the Puglia stop on Tuesday afternoon, leaping into the lead after two rounds as they look to wrap things up with one stop to spare. A win for Hunt at this penultimate stop would secure him his ninth King Kahekili Trophy, while I...

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Italy wins a lot of medals also in the last day of the Finswimming World Championships 2021 in Santa Marta (Colombia). Our team has, in fact, won two more medals. The first one with Mara Zaghet, who becomes world champion in the 1000 meters monofin, and with Davide Campagnoli, Consuelo Dametto, Leonardo Grimaudo and Carolina Trocca, who get the bro...

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After the victory of the European Football Championship and the extraordinary results obtained at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, this incredible Italian summer ended with another amazing sporting success, the one obtained by the unbeatable Italian athletes at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo. An extraordinary feat, because with only 113 athletes, Italy...

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In 2016, at the Rio Paralympics, Italy won a total of 39 medals, 10 of them gold. Now, after the first week of the Tokyo Paralympics (which will end on September 5), Italy is already at 43 medals, 11 of them gold. Today alone, Italian athletes have won 9 medals: one gold, seven silver and one bronze. The bronze medal was won by Xenia Francesca Pala...

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Arjola Trimi won the gold medal in the 100 freestyle swimming category S3 at the Tokyo Paralympics. This is the second individual gold medal of the 34-year-old from Milan (after yesterday's 50 backstroke), who today preceded the American Leanne Smith and the Russian Iuliia Shishova. Immediately afterwards, Italy triumphed again with Carlotta Gilli,...

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With the silver medal in the women's foil team, Italy's Paralympic medals in Tokyo rise to 27: Simone Barlaam's gold in the 50 sl (cat. S9), Arjola Trimi's gold in the 50 backstroke (cat. S3) and the women's 4x100 sl relay team finished second behind the United States: Xenia Palazzo, Vittoria Bianco, Giulia Terzi and Alessia Scortechini were promot...

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Italy won two more swimming golds at the Tokyo Paralympics Thursday taking their total to four golds and 10 medals in all. Stefano Raimondi won the 100m breaststroke in the new SB9 category after Francesco Bocciardo got his second gold in the S5 100m freestyle after winning the 200m on Wednesday. Italy also got two more silvers with Carlotta Gilli...

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A gold and a silver in the final of the 100 butterfly S13 at the Paralympics in Tokyo, a gold and a silver in the 200 freestyle. After the first medal (bronze for Bettella in the 100 backstroke swimming category S1), here is also the first gold, signed by Carlotta Gilli (category S13), with a Paralympic record in 28"79, and the silver of Alessia Be...

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