Athletics, Fidal and fans honor Gianmarco Tamberi and Antonella Palmisano
Gianmarco Tamberi and Antonella Palmisano "Athletes of the'Year 2023" for Fidal
Gianmarco Tamberi and Antonella Palmisano are the king and queen of Italian athletics according to Fidal. The two champions were in fact elected "Athletes of the year 2023" at the end of a vote in which a jury of experts (which counted for two-thirds of the votes) and athletics fans, who were able to cast their votes (which counted, in the total tally, for one-third) on Fidal social channels, expressed themselves.
In addition to the high jumper of the Fiamme Oro and the marcher of the Fiamme Gialle, the Italian team-winners of the European Teams-Cup were also awarded the prize of "Team of the Year" while as ‘Rising Stars’ were elected Mattia Furlani and Erika Saraceni and as ‘Master of the Year’ Livio Bugiardini and Cristina Sanulli.
Tamberi’s triumph è also came thanks to the World Gold that arrived in 2023 in Budapest, which completed a circle that began with indoor and outdoor European Championships, indoor World Championships and Olympic Games. Next goal precisely to confirm in Paris the result of Tokyo. Palmisano, on the other hand, gave Italian athletics the only medal for women at the World Championships in Budapest, in the 20 km, despite the physical troubles that plagued her and a fall in the race.
Finally, these are the names of the "Team of the Year" that is, the representative team capable of winning the European Cup: Pietro Arese, Nadia Battocletti, Lorenzo Benati, Giacomo Bertoncelli, Tobia Bocchi, Anna Bongiorni, Federica Botter, Roberta Bruni, Monia Cantarella, Ludovica Cavalli, Samuele Ceccarelli, Ottavia Cestonaro, Eloisa Coiro, Yeman Crippa, Eleonora Curtabbi, Fausto Desalu, Elisa Di Lazzaro, Zaynab Dosso, Sara Fantini, Michele Fina, Hassane Fofana, Ayomide Folorunso, Vittoria Fontana, Erika Furlani, Mattia Furlani, Johanelis Herrera, Larissa Iapichino, Dalia Kaddari, Brayan Lopez, Alice Mangione, Alessio Mannucci, Eleonora Marchiando, Matteo Melluzzo, Giorgio Olivieri, Daisy Osakue, Lorenzo Patta, Alessia Pavese, Anna Polinari, Marco Ricci, Edoardo Scotti, Alessandro Sibilio, Stefano Sottile, Claudio Stecchi, Gianmarco Tamberi, Catalin Tecuceanu, Filippo Tortu, Sintayehu Vissa, Zane Weir, Ala Zoghlami, and Osama Zoghlami.
