Olympics, bitter silver for the Azzurri foil team
Olympics, silver for the Azzurri in foil
Italy's medal number 22 at the Paris 2024 Olympics comes from fencing. The men’s foil team, composed of Filippo Macchi, Tommaso Marini, Alessio Foconi and Guillame Bianchi, won silver in the team tournament: in the final, the Azzurri bowed to reigning world champion Japan, which è won with a score of 45-36.
The match è was in balance for a long time, but the Nipponese stretched decisively in the seventh bout, when Nagano è managed to impose himself clearly on our Foconi inflicting a 5-0 that was difficult to recover. For Italy è it is the tenth silver medal in Paris: 7 are the golds, 5 the bronze medals.
Italy has won a total of 40 medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, setting a new record for spoils in a single edition of the Games. Ten gold medals, as many silver medals and 20 bronze medals as well. Will the Azzurri be able to do better in France?”
Rising on the highest step; highest step of the podium in Japan were Marcell Jacobs – Men’s 100 meters, Gianmarco Tamberi – Men’s high jump, Massimo Stano – Men’s 20 km march, Antonella Palmisano – Women’s 20 km march, Men’s 4×100 relay – Lorenzo Patta, Marcell Jacobs, Fausto Desalu, Filippo Tortu, Federica Cesarini and Valentina Rodini – Rowing, women’s lightweight doubles, Francesco Lamon, Simone Consonni, Jonathan Milan and Filippo Ganna – Cycling, men’s team pursuit, Luigi Busà – Karate, kumite -75kg and Vito Dell’Aquila – Taekwondo, -58kg.
