In the final the Azzurri beat Serbia 3-0: Italy had never won a team gold in kumite. Third place for the girls who win 2-1 over Japan. Silver for Allesina in parakarate
Magic Nights. Italy continues to make people dream and write pages of history like the one signed today by the men’s kumite team that managed to win gold at the Karate World Championships.
In Dubai Luca Maresca, Ahmed El Sharaby, Gianluca De Vivo, Daniele De Vivo, Michele Martina and Lorenzo Pietromarchi paved Serbia for 3-0, climbing to the top step of the world championship podium: it was 40 years that a blue kumite team had not he was competing in a world final, and Italy had never managed to win. “We are a beautiful team that deserved to make history – commented captain Luca Maresca -. We worked hard to get here. Now we enjoy this moment and then we will think about taking this team forward and winning again ”. Bronze, on the other hand, for the women’s kumite team with Lorena Busà, Silvia Semeraro, Clio Ferracuti and Alessandra Mangiacapra who overcame Japan 2-1. Mattia Allesina’s silver in parakarate also closes the circle of blue medals. Italy greets the 2021 World Cup with a loot of ten medals: one gold, four silvers and five bronzes.
Gold The path that led the men’s kumite team to a final that Italian karate had been missing for 40 years was clear. From the 2018 world bronze medal in Madrid, which had already been a great feat in itself, the kumite team underwent a change of formation: Maresca, Martina and El Sharaby remained, joined by the De Vivo brothers (Daniele is only 18 years old. ) and Pietromarchi. Together they showed great talent and unity, overcoming Brazil, Kosovo, Kazakhstan and Turkey in succession. Full of hopes and dreams, the six blues showed up on the mat in front of Serbia, certain of being able to win. A final opened by the freshness of Daniele De Vivo, victorious 2-1, continued with the stratospheric performance of Ahmed El Sharaby, superior for 8-5, and closed with the technical genius of Gianluca De Vivo: his success for 4-2 who gave the world title with 3 matches won at 0. Then the big hug in the center of the tatami, the choirs and the applause of the companions in the stands, the Italian flag on their shoulders while in chorus they sing “An Italian summer”, now a column sound of the many blue successes that have been accompanying us since July towards the end of a year to remember. “I admit that I would have liked to give my support – continued Maresca -, I would have liked to fight too, but being the number 5 in formation in the end, luckily we closed it early and in a great way. The guys have been wonderful, we are an incredible team and they are like brothers to me. Ours is a real team effort, also made up of all our coaches, none excluded. We are really happy ”. A gold that marks the blue history of the discipline thanks to the achievement of six boys, the future of karate.
Bronze Also amazing are the women who began their journey by bending Azerbaijan, Hungary and England. Defeats only in the semifinals by Egypt, the team that later won the title, redeemed themselves with the success against Ukraine in the repechage, thus reaching the final for the bronze. Against Japan it was Silvia Semeraro who opened the dance, winning 1-0, then the defeat of Alessandra Mangiacapra for 2-0 put everything back in the hands of captain Lorena Busà: a hard-fought match, but dominated by the blue who, a once in gear, she turned into a sniper capable of closing the score at 5-2.
Parakarate The morning in Dubai had already opened with a blue joy thanks to the amazing performance of Mattia Allesina in parakarate: after having finished in first place his eliminatory round of kata, he faced the final against the Egyptian Amhed Elbetagy who just got away with it. passed. This is how Mattia put an important silver around his neck, celebrated with his teammates Daniele Alfonsi and Daniele Montanari, also competing in the category of intellectual disability.
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