Tokyo2020, Italy of medals: one step away from Los Angeles 1932 and Rome 1960

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  Rizza in canoe is silver.

  Bronze Paltrineri, Viviani and Bottaro

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  Coe defends him.

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06 August 2021

There are three days left to the end of

: 7 gold, 10 silver and 18 bronze.

Never in history had Italian sport won so many bronzes: it is a record.

It was since Atlanta 1996, the Centenary edition, that the blue sport had not won such a high number of medals.

In Sydney 2000 there were 34 podiums.

The

where the gold medals were respectively 12 and 13. In the last three editions the medals won had not exceeded 30, 27 in Beijing 2008, 28 in both London 2012 and Rio de Janeiro 2016. To date, Italy is in ninth place in the medal table , in seventh for the number of medals won, in fifth at European level. With 7 golds, Italy Team is together with France, Holland and New Zealand. The Tokyo 2020 medal table for the moment is made up of 81 nations out of a total of 205.

On the

there could be other medals in the free with Frank Chamizo, in the women's 20 km walk, in track cycling and, the big dream, in the men's 4x100 relay. The dream vanished in the 50 km, with the Azzurri who were unable to get close to the medals area. At the Sapporo Odori Park the best was Andrea Agrusti, who finished 23rd in 4h01'10 "the race won by the Polish Dawid Tomala in 3h50'08". Silver medal for the German Jonathan Hilbert in 3h50'44 ", bronze for the Canadian Evan Dunfee in 3h50'59". The other two blues at the start, Marco De Luca and Teodorico Caporaso, did not cross the finish line. Outside the medal area also Mattia Busato in kata, a karate specialty that yesterday gave Italy the first, historic medal with Viviana Bottaro.

Among the latest milestones are

gold 

 20 km

held in Sapporo. The blue finished the race in 1h21'05 ", ahead of the Japanese Koki Ikeda (1h21'14"), silver, and Toshikazu Yamanishi (1h21'28 "), bronze. The other blue Francesco Fortunato closes 15th (1h23 '43 "). Stano, 29, was born in Grumo Appula in Puglia but lives in Rome with his wife and former colleague Fatima Lofti. His idols are the former blue walker Ivano Brugnetti and the Ecuadorian Jefferson Perez. At the finish line Stano celebrated with the gesture of the finger in his mouth to symbolize the arrival of a baby. Carded for the Fiamme Oro he was at his first Olympic experience.

of track cycling. In Rio 2016 in the same discipline (but with six tests instead of four) the Italian standard-bearer in Tokyo 2020 had conquered gold. The blue also prevailed in the third round, the elimination one, after finishing thirteenth 13th in the 'scratch' and eleventh in the 'time race'. The Veronese, reigning Olympic champion, was far behind in the middle of the course but was able to recover in the second part of the challenge. Viviani was preceded by the British Matthew Walls, gold medal, and the New Zealander Stewart Campbell, silver medal.

in the final in kata, a specialty of Karate on her debut in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic program. At the Nippon Budokan, the Ligurian Viviana Botaro defeated the American Sakura Kokumai, becoming the first blue on the Olympic karate podium on the day of the debut of the discipline at the Games.

Patrinieri's company that wins a new medal.

"I wanted this bronze at all costs, because these Olympics had not yet completely satisfied me: now yes. The fourth place in the 1,500 freestyle was a bad blow", was the declaration of

. A bronze that is worth gold, repeats the technician Fabrizio Antonelli after the performance in the waters of the bay of Odaiba. It is the first time in the history of the Games that a blue athlete takes two medals between swimming pool (silver) and open water (bronze).

Greg, 26, a swimmer from Carpi registered for the Fiamme Oro, already a silver medalist in the 800 freestyle, suffered, and he does not hide it, recovering from mononucleosis. "Today was difficult: hot, messy, they started from the first lap and I didn't even notice it," said the hot swimmer, speaking of the leading group that he then had to chase. "However, I'm happy to be on the podium. Where did I find the energy? Before the race I was very concentrated." 

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The Italian sprint canoe returns to the Olympic podium after 13 years (Beijing 2008).

For Italy Team this is the 10th silver in Tokyo 2020. The blue was preceded by just 45 thousandths from the Hungarian Sandor Totka (35 "035), third the British, outgoing Olympic champion, Liam Heath, who reached 167 thousandths from the winner Rizza, 30 years old from Pavia, European distance champion and third this year in the World Cup in Seghedino (the only podium in his career).  

Positive result for the

of athletics that wins the final. The quartet made up of rookie Lorenzo Patta (born in 2000), Marcell Jacobs (gold in the 100), Eseosa Desalu (semifinalist in the 200) and Filippo Tortu (semifinalist in the 100) finished in 37 "95, setting the new Italian record (the previous was 38 "11, obtained at the 2019 World Championships in Doha). Italy came in third place in the second battery behind China and Canada (both with 37 "92), with the fourth total time among the eight qualified. Out of the final the American relay, only sixth in the Azzurri's battery. Best time ever is for Jamaica (37''82) who wins her battery in front of Great Britain (38''02) and Japan (38''16). '08),arrived behind the blue quartet. The final is scheduled for tomorrow at 15.00 Italian time.