GRASS – Brilliant performance for Italy at the Under 19 European Championships in Kruszwica, Poland, where the Italian team won four gold medals, five silver and one bronze – 10 medals in total out of 12 boats placed in the finals – which allow it to finish in second place in the medal table for nations behind Romania (10 medals: seven gold and three silver) and ahead of Greece (four medals: three gold and one silver). The four gold pieces bear the signature, in chronological order, of the four with female by Veronica Poletti (Crevense), Sara Lucia Caterisano (SC Lario), Maria Vittoria Crevatin, Vittoria Pastorelli (CC Saturnia) And helmsman Margherita Fanchi (SC Varese); of the men’s four of Michele Minazzato, Luca Cassina, Filippo BANCA (SC Lario) and Giovanni Paoli (SC Firenze); of the men’s four sculls of Federico Chiucchini (SC Padova), Pietro Zampaglione (SC Armida), Josef Giorgio Marvucic (SC Canoa San Giorgio) and Maximilian Riboni (SC Gavirate); of the women’s foursome of Matilde Paoletti (CC Roma), Valentina Mascheroni (SC Menaggio), Noemi De Vincenzi (SC Nettuno) and Beatrice Ravini Perelli (RCC Cerea).
The five silver medals bear the signature of the women’s singles by Melissa Schincariol (SC Cernobbio), the women’s twos by the twins Giulia and Marta Orefice (SC Moltrasio), the men’s fours by Luigi Festorazzi (SC Pescate), Gabriele Talamona, Gioele Re, Alessandro Binda (SC Monate) and Riccardo Doni (SC Pescate) at the helm, and of the two flagships, the men’s eight of Mauro Germani (SC Adria 1877), Romeo Schirinzi (SC Sampierdarenesi), Daniele Maria Loconsole (SC Cernobbio ), Andrea Cagnassone (SC Caprera), Matteo Pozzobon (Rowing Club Genovese), Leonardo Sostegni, Tommaso Laganà (SC Limite), Jacopo Cappagli (SC Sampierdarenesi) and Lorenzo Tronconi (SC Gavirate) helmsman, and the women’s helmsman of Giorgia Canale (SC Caprera), Letizia Martorana, Carolina Cassani (SC Lario), Marta Ravizza (SC Caprera), Margherita Vietri (CC Roma), Sara Lucia Caterisano, Matilde Orsetti (SC Arno), Vittoria Pastorelli (CC Saturnia) and at the helm Morgana Maroni ( SC Monate). Finally, the bronze was won by Elisa Bonetti (SC Moltrasio), Margherita Vietri, Sandra Compagnucci (CC Roma) and Matilde Orsetti (SC Arno) in the women’s four.
The men’s doubles of twins Andrea and Marco Frigo (SC Arolo), fourth, and the men’s doubles of Lorenzo Cracco and Tommaso Cinquantini (SC Varese), fifth, fell off the podium. Once the Under 19 European Championship is over, the next event for Italian rowing is the third and final round of the World Cup, also scheduled in Poland, in Poznan from 14 to 16 June, and in which only the paralympic team.
