CAGLIARI – Two weeks before the start, the game is over: 424 athletes are entitled to participate (ALL admissions HERE) at the individual trials of the Cagliari 2024 Absolute Italian Fencing Championships, scheduled from 5 to 10 June, and in which the Serie A1 team titles of the six specialties will obviously also be awarded. The event, organized by the Athos Academy of Arms at the MonteMixi facilities, with the finals at the PalaPirastu, will unfold over six days of competitions, all with RAI live coverage of the decisive phases, but with total coverage from the previous rounds through Federscherma TV.
Many champions are expected in the Sardinian capital just over a month before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games for which Italy has qualified all six teams after an excellent World Cup season that has just ended. Leading the platoon of the “big” Italians in Cagliari will obviously be Arianna Errigo, chosen by CONI as the Italian flag bearer in the opening ceremony of the Olympics. But among those admitted, as per tradition, there are all the protagonists and rising stars of Italian fencing ready to compete for the “championships” that a year ago, in La Spezia, went to Alessio Foconi and Francesca Palumbo in foil, Valerio Cuomo and Mara Navarria of the epee, Riccardo Nuccio and Rossella Gregorio in the sabre, while among the teams the Air Force won with sabers and swordsmen, the Carabinieri with the foilists, the Fiamme Oro with the swordsmen, the Fiamme Gialle with the sabers and the Frascati Scherma with the foil players.
There is obviously great anticipation in Cagliari where, after the last two editions of the European Club Cup, the 2017 Italian Cadet and Youth Championships, the 2018 Mediterranean Championships and the 2021 Italian Under 23 Championships, the 2024 Assoluti are about to arrive.
Italian Absolute Championships Cagliari 2024
Wednesday 5 June
Individual male foil
Individual women’s foil
Thursday 6 June
Serie A1 men’s team foil
Women’s team foil Serie A1
Friday 7 June
Individual men’s sword
Individual female sword
Saturday 8 June
Men’s team epee Serie A1
Serie A1 women’s team epee
Sunday 9 June
Individual men’s sabre
Individual women’s sabre
Monday 10 June
Men’s Team Saber Serie A1
Women’s Team Saber Series A1
