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The words of Stefano Cerioni
“We are in the’post-Olympic year, there’s a need to work well and try to see how many young people will be able to prove themselves worthy of the national team and play their place with the current top lines”. This is what Italian foil coach Stefano Cerioni, during the collegiate retreat underway in Chianciano Terme, spoke about ahead of the season’s debut in the specialty’s World Cup scheduled for Nov. 21-24 in Tunis.
A debut stage that kicks off the new four-year period, building on the extraordinary results of the previous three years, culminating with the three silver medals won at the Paris Olympic Games and enriched by an impressive haul of five golds, three silvers and a bronze at the World Championships, and again by ten golds, four silvers and six bronzes at the European Championships. A total of no less than 32 medals in the biggest international events between 2022 and 2024.
Successes based on a mix of already experienced and emerging athletes who have been able to climb the ranks quickly. Principle from which CT Cerioni will restart’at the dawn of this season: “We have a beautiful group, internal competition will be stimulating and fundamental to keep the most experienced fit and give new and fresh motivation to everyone. The youngsters will have the’opportunity’to show what they are worth and I hope to get important signals especially from them”.
It (re)starts in Tunis, in seven days: “I imagine a first competition of the World Cup circuit certainly different from those of last season, in which all the National Teams were full, but it will be important to start well, to begin to feel the feeling with the platform and with the opponents, trying as always to do the best possible”;, the words of the Technical Commissioner who is leading in Chianciano Terme the second collegiate training of the season after the one a few weeks ago in Champoluc in Valle d’Aosta.
Responding to the first convocation for the Tunisian trip will be foilists Martina Batini, Anna Cristino, Arianna Errigo, Martina Favaretto, Francesca Palumbo and Elena Tangherlini, and foilists Guillaume Bianchi, Davide Filippi, Alessio Foconi, Giulio Lombardi, Edoardo Luperi and Filippo Macchi. They will be joined by their authorized teammates, bringing the total to 12 Italian nationals for the men’s event and as many Italian athletes for the women’s competition.
The program in Tunis will unravel over four days of competition: on Thursday, November 21 and Friday, November 22, space will be given to rounds and preliminary rounds first for the women and then for the men, on Saturday, November 23, the highlight will be the main draw of the two individual competitions until the finals scheduled from 5:30 pm. On Sunday, 24, the debut stage of the World Cup for foil will close with the team competitions, whose assaults for gold are set to begin at 6 p.m.
