Yet another Italian title for the Piceno sprinter Francesco Ceci (the 36th in his career) at the Italian Championships held in Padua with success in the Km.-Tandem specialty paired with Stefano Meroni from Como.
After winning the world title last March in Rio de Janeiro in the Sprint Mixed Team (Ceci-Meroni and Bissolati-Colombo), the confirmation of the blue tandem (Ceci-Meroni) has duly arrived in the Km. from Fermo Tandem which will be the only specialty of the Veloce sector included in the Paris 2024 Paralympic program.
At the Rio World Championships, in addition to the World Championship title of the Sprint Mixed Team (unfortunately a specialty not included in the Paris 2024 programme), the Piceno sprinter obtained 5th place in the Km. (again paired with Stefano Meroni) after achieving the 4th time overall and 2nd time in the 200m.
The time of 1’05’932 on the concrete ring of the Monti velodrome in Padua is of absolute world importance and strengthens the probable hopes of an Olympic medal in the five-circle competition in Paris at the end of August.
The complex Olympic regulation which assigns a maximum of places per nation (overall for road and track) makes the federal choice of the Italian athletes who will participate in the Olympic competitions difficult as the Italian Paralympic Cycling Movement is rich in world and European champions, especially in the road sector. HandBike. By the end of June, the reservations in this sense will be resolved by the CIIP-Federation.
For the Ascoli native Francesco Ceci (Team Ceci – Ecoinnova), guide of the blind Stefano Meroni, it is the long-chased dream during a career full of successes in all the velodromes of the world enriched by 36 Italian titles in the various specialties fast on the track.
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