The first day of the European Rowing Championships ends in Szeged, Hungary. Twelve of the fourteen Italian crews involved in this long weekend are in the water.
OLYMPIC SPECIALTIES
Men’s doubles composed of Luca Rambaldi and Matteo Sartori which is confirmed among the best; a 6’15”14 in the first heat is enough to immediately go to the semi-final ahead of Poland, with which they enter the penultimate act. The four without Matteo Lodo, Giovanni Abagnale, Giuseppe Vicino and Nicholas Kohl are directly in the finalwhich goes to the last act taking the second heat in 5’54”50 and will compete with Great Britain, France and Romania, waiting for the other participants.
In the two without masculineDavide Comini and Giovanni Codato they took the pass to the semi-finals with second place in 6’29”00, behind Great Britain (Oliver Wynne-Griffith and Tom George). In the women’s race Laura Meriano and Kiri Enghlish-Hawke they will have to go through the repechage after finishing fourth in their heat in 7’29”27.
Repechages also for Gennaro Di Maurothird in his heat by just 23 hundredths, being overtaken by the Lithuanian Giedrius Bieliauskas, and for the women’s lightweight double made up of Valentina Rodini and Silvia Crosio, second in 7’02”44 behind the Romanian pair Van Groningen-Cozmiuc (6’53”73). He wasn’t there with Rodini Valentina Cesarini, engaged in the four sculls with Stefania Gobbi, Stefania Buttignon and Clara Guerra, but it wasn’t enough to reach the immediate final: only fourth place, behind Great Britain, Germany and Poland. The male counterpart, on the other hand, did well Nicolò Carucci, Andrea Panizza, Luca Chiumento and Giacomo Gentili, second and already in the last act.
The eight, both masculine (Matteo Della Valle, Jacopo Frigerio, Luca Vicino, Marco Vicino, Emanuele Gaetani Liseo, Salvatore Monfrecola, Leonardo Pietra Caprina, Vincenzo Abbagnale, Alessandra Faella helmsman) and feminine (Giorgia Pelacchi, Linda De Filippis, Alice Gnatta, Aisha Rocek, Alice Codato, Silvia Terrazzi, Elisa Mondelli, Veronica Bumbaca, Emanuele Capponi helmsman) are third in the preliminary races.
NON-OLYMPIC SPECIALTIES
The only Niels Torre he is the Italian representative in the lightweight singles: the twenty-four year old from Volterra goes directly to the A final by winning his heat in 7’01”59 ahead of the Belgian Marlon Colpaert; with them the Irishman Jacob Thomas McCarthy and the Hungarian Peter Galambos.
PARALYMPIC SPECIALTIES
Alone Giacomo Perini engaged in the men’s single PR1, and the blue from CC Aniene does not miss the opportunity, winning his heat in 8’50″80 and appearing as the favorite for the race, being the only one who went under nine minutes.
