Paris 2024 Olympics, Italians to medal: Antonella Palmisano

Paris Olympics: Azzurri to medal

Antonella Palmisano è born Aug. 6, 1991, in Mottola, Taranto province. È is 1.66 meters tall and weighs 49 kg. She competes for the Fiamme Gialle Sports Group. Her hobbies are music, cooking and drawing. È in her third Olympics.

Until 2003 he practiced volleyball, then shifted to marching, training in his Mottola with a group of boys led by coach Tommaso Gentile. In his rich youth palmares stands out the victory in the junior World Cup in Chihuahua in 2010. In 2012 he moved to Rome. He competes with a colorful felt flower on his head, made by his mother.

She touched the podium at the World Championships in Beijing in 2015, fifth, and at the Rio Olympic Games in 2016, fourth, also in the 20 km march, her distance. She makes up for it with interest between 2017 and 2018, when she captures first world bronze and then European bronze. The climax of her career, però comes with the extraordinary gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

In 2023 on the streets of Budapest he won world bronze again, putting behind him a delicate left hip operation and two complicated years. Since the fall of that year she has been è coached by her husband and former heel and toe colleague Lorenzo Dessi, under whose guidance in Paris 2024 she wants to defend the five-ring title she won in Japan. The European gold won at the Stadio dei Marmi in Rome confirms that the way è the right one.