The medals are pouring in for the master’s degree of Nuoto Sub Faenza at the 22nd “Città di Molinella” swimming trophy despite only six of them registered: the spoils were in fact 10 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze. The star was Annamaria Chillemi (M45 category) victorious in the 50m breaststroke, 50m freestyle and 200m medley, but Veronica Molnar (M50) also performed excellently, first in the 50m backstroke and 100m medley, Claudia Emma Pasi (M40 ) gold in the 100 breaststroke and 100 medley, as well as in the men’s field by Filippo Mallamaci (M25) ahead of everyone in the 50 and 100 freestyle, Davide Ranieri (M20) winning in the 200 freestyle and second in the 100 freestyle and Dario Montanari (M50) bronze in the 50 freestyle. The next meeting of the Master swimmers is scheduled for Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th May at the Multieventi Sport Domus in Serravalle for the 17th San Marino Trophy.
The girls of the Beginners A category, who finished sixth in the region, participated in the Final of the Winter swimming tournament for rookie teams, improving all personal bests. Excellent performances were given by Linda Martelli, second in the 100m breaststroke and third in the 200m breaststroke, and by Alice Bandini, third in the 100m freestyle, but the good fifth place in the ranking was also thanks to Marta Zini, Anna Della Monica, Matilde Zama, Arianna Pini and Chiara Tamburini.
The girls and boys of the category Beginners C they were engaged in Faenza in the 4th round of the 45th Libertas Propaganda Regional Championships – 14th Rodolfo Nisiro Trophy, where the ones who shone in the 25 meters were Leone Villa (2016) gold in freestyle and bronze in butterfly and Elettra Casadio (2018) gold in freestyle. Also at the 25 meter distance, Marco Pini (2017) silver in freestyle and bronze in butterfly, Simone Lippi (2015) silver in butterfly, Davide Montevecchi (2018) silver in freestyle, Christian Gaddoni (2018) bronze in butterfly freestyle, Maria Giulia Boschi (2016) freestyle bronze, Vittoria Nonni (2017) freestyle bronze.
Meanwhile, the Federnuoto has called up Alberto Fabbri and Alex Gaddoni from Faenza to the regional representatives, respectively for the Beginners and Boys categories: Fabbri will be competing next Sunday at the 2nd Memorial Orestina Zazzarini in Sassuolo; Gaddoni from 26 to 28 April at the 13th Squalo Blu Meeting from 26 to 28 April at the Multieventi Sport Domus in Serravalle in the Republic of San Marino.
Competition Sunday also for the girls artistic swimming in Ravenna: in the morning for the 4th Uisp Esordienti Trophy for the C, B and A Rookies, in the afternoon for the 5th Uisp Insieme Trophy for the Girls and Junior categories only. In the morning’s performances, the gold medal went to the Trio Esordienti C (Amanda Baracani, Sofia Cartilari, Emma Iovine), the silver to the Free Combined Esordienti A (Elisa Brunelli, Valentina Camminata, Caterina Cattani, Vittoria Cioffi, Anna Margherita Fiorentini, Matilde Melandri, Martina Miele, Ginevra Neri, Celeste Ronconi), bronze for the Trio Esordienti B (Elena Pederzoli, Giulia Assirelli, Sofia Bertaccini), in addition to fifth places for Ludovica Bambi in Solo Esordienti C, Sofia Bertaccini in Solo Esordienti B and for the Trio Esordienti A (Valentina Camminata, Martina Miele, Celeste Ronconi). In the afternoon Anna Perderzoli placed ninth in Solo. Next Sunday the girls of all categories will participate in the 3rd FIN regional trophy in Lugo.
In the sector ofwater polo Sunday the Under 16 student team faced Penta Modena in Faenza in the match valid for the 6th and final day in Group D of the 2nd phase of the regional Fin category championship. For coach Piero Calderoni’s boys the match could have been an important turning point of the season, as qualification for the National Phase was at stake, but they ended up losing 8 to 9. “It was probably the best match of our championship – comments manager Giulia Bonoli -: we finally saw precise steps, initiative, individual actions, aggression. They believed in it a lot, but when luck doesn’t turn out well it’s difficult: I lost count of the balls that ended up on the post.” It is not yet certain, but it seems that the regional Fin is organizing a post-season for non-qualified teams; However, Nuoto Sub Faenza is preparing to play friendly competitions.
Also there Under 12 rookie team played last Sunday, guest of Rari Nantes 2 at the Sterlino swimming pool in Bologna in the match of the 2nd day in group D of the 2nd phase of the Fin regional championship, obtaining a clear success of 13 to 1. “Finally the first victory – coach rejoices Luca Cimatti -. I’m happy with the attitude with which the boys entered the water: full of determination and desire to win. Attitude to maintain until the end of the championship. Now we prepare to face our friends from Ravenna.”
However, the home match was not played on Sunday Under 13 team against Unisport Carpi valid for the 3rd return day of the Uisp regional championship: the match has been postponed to Tuesday 30 April at 8pm, but first for the boys coached by Sasha Bandini there will be the match on the 4th day on Saturday April 20th at 6.30pm, when as per the calendar they will face Ondablu Sassuolo away.
Again next Saturday, at 11.30, it will also be the turn of the Master water polo players: the 6th return day in group A of the Uisp regional championship will see the Faenza team away to the Sterlino swimming pool in Bologna against 2000 Service.
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