If the adventure a Doha it hadn’t started as hoped, the Italian men’s and women’s Artistic Gymnastics he immediately found redemption on the second day of qualifying World Cup in Qatar. Five finals won, to be played on Saturday 20 April from 2.55pm to 6.55pm, live on Rai Play with commentary by Andrea Fusco and technical commentary by Andrea Massaro. Tomorrow, always at the same times and on the web channel – in addition to a large three-hour window on Rai Sport – the first part of the final eight will take place: unfortunately there will be no Italians, but certainly great gymnastics.
Meanwhile, a nice Italian double arrived in the qualifications for the men’s parallel bars, wherever that may be Nicolò Mozzato That Lay Giannini they snatched the pass to the final. The gymnast from Spes Mestre succeeded with the final score of 14.266 and his colleague from Giovanile Ancona with a few cents more at 14.300. And Lay also came close to gaining access to the bar, where she is still first reserve (13,633 pts.). Nothing to do, however, for the Marche native on vault, but he was good on the run-up from 25 meters Niccolo Vannucchi to bring the tricolor to the final. The Tuscan of the Gymnastic Romagna Team obtained the pass with the fifth score in qualifying thanks to the average of 14.383 points between the two jumps.
In the women’s, however, another double arrived, this time thanks to Chiara Barzasi which granted itself an encore of finals. US gymnast Renato Serra mastered the always difficult beam, finishing fourth best on the apparatus at 12,900. She did not miss the opportunity to repeat herself on floor exercise, snatching the pass with the last available place thanks to the score of 12.733. Too bad for the World Cup debutant, Caterina Gaddi of the Vis Academy, who missed the target by less than three tenths (12.466 pts.) but added even more experience to his Qatari baggage. As well as the Fiamme Oro agent of the State Police Martina Maggio, who finally returned to international competition in Doha after her injury, and came close to reaching the beam final by four tenths (12.333 pts.). Alongside the Azzurri are the technicians Massimo Gallina, Marcello Barbieri and Gianmatteo Centazzo, the match officials Flavio Mandich and Linda Balugani (also head of the delegation) and the physiotherapist Andrea Rocca.
QUALIFICATION RESULTS
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Vaulting
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Free Body
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