The delegation from the University of Ferrara will leave today (Friday 17 May) for Molise and will participate in the 2024 edition of the National University Championships, an event with a very long tradition.
Born in 1947 in Bologna (in the wake of the Guf games of the 1930s), they see CUS from all over Italy compete with the best of university-related sport on an annual basis.
Led by the head of delegation Cinzia Garbellini, Cus Ferrara Unife will be present with 25 athletes from 7 disciplines (athletics, judo, wrestling, taekwondo, karate, golf, fencing) who will have the honor and privilege of participating in this event for their University and for the University Sports Center of Ferrara. The various specialties will be divided between Campobasso, Termoli and Isernia and will be competing from Saturday.
Led by coach Eric De la Paz, the judo section composed of Francesca Andreolla, Carlo Giorgi, Alessandro Pavan and Matteo Slongo, will fight at the Palaunimol in Campobasso. Same location for the fight led by Gaetano Bellon, with Andrea Muz and Giulio Massimo Bellon, fresh Italian Under 20 champion in 87 kg, after the Junior title won in Ostia.
At the Palavazzieri also in Campobasso, the taekwondo of the coach Gianmarco Moschin will compete. Here hopes are linked to Giuseppe Lodato and Francesca Preite, the outgoing champion, who will leave in July for Hungary, home of the Eusa European University Games, wearing the shirt of the club chaired by Giorgio Tosi. Elena Roversi will also leave with her, one of the spearheads of Rector Laura Ramaciotti’s Karate team. Trained by her father Mario, in February she won bronze at the Italian Kata Championships. In 2023 she won gold at the CNU and world silver in the team kata.
On Saturday, at the Lancellotta stadium in Isernia, the athletics team led by Chiara Pantaleoni will also be competing. Between the track and the platforms, Lorenzo Basco, Tiziano Felletto, Filippo Ferri, Filippo Torresin, Leonardo Verrati, Elena Bonafè, Miriam Botti, Silvia Fortunato, Margherita Rizzi, Maddalena Torresani, Stella Tronchin, Maia Vocca will be involved.
Tuesday will be the turn of fencing led by Riccardo Schiavina who, in addition to the European gold medals in the early 2000s, also reached the podium at the CNU a few years ago. This time Fabio Quartarone and Emilia Rossatti will be on stage at the Palasabetta in Termoli. play of the year” because in the épée final for the Italian under 23 title, a few seconds from the end, under some hits, her opponent slips and gets hurt. After the intervention of the medical staff she tries to return to the platform by shooting from a standstill. Emilia decides not to take advantage of it, retreating and stalling for the final seventeen seconds of the match, thus handing victory, title and automatic access to the European Championships to her opponent.
Closing the delegation from the University of Ferrara will be Luca Martufi’s golf which on Saturday 25 May will see Rebecca Bonfigli and Andrea Cavazzini competing on the green of the Varvarusa Golf Club in Filignano.
