Diving, Chiara Pellacani queen of Europe from 3 meters.

Chiara Pellacani golden

The queen of Europe from the Olympic 3 meters is an Italian who has yet to turn 20 and who, between Budapest 2021 and Rome 2022, climbs the continental podium for the tenth consecutive time. Chiara Pellacani paints the masterpiece and at the end of a virtually perfect final is gold with 318.75 points. Silver went to Switzerland’s Michelle Heimberg with 301.80 and bronze to Britain’s Yasmin Harper with 296.20. Very good was rookie Elisa Pizzini (Bergamo Tuffi) tenth with 243.85.

Sensational routines of the 19-year-old Roman and continental silver medalist in Budapest 2021 – carded for Fiamme Gialle and MR Sport F.lli Marconi, gold in the team event, silver in the 3-meter synchro with Elena Bertocchi, bronze from the meter and in the mixed synchro with Matteo Santoro – with all dives well above the sufficiency and a triple somersault and half forward pike (69.75) practically perfect. For Italtuffi this is the eighth medal in the specialty (4-3-1): the gold has been missing since London 2016, when Tania Cagnotto, of course, won it. For the national team of technical director Oscar Bertone it is the ninth podium at Rome 2022 (3-2-4), already surpassing the number of Budapest 2021, and the goal of double digits with two days to go increasingly concrete.