Antonella Palmisano, the European Championships open with gold in the 20 km race walk. And Trapletti wins silver

The European Athletics Championships in Rome open with a gold and a silver. A triumph as an Olympic champion, but also as the wife of the coach she wanted as a guide towards the Paris Olympics: Antonella Palmisano she wins the 20 km walk with a 28 second advantage over the other Italian Valentina Traplettiadding the European title to the Olympic one three years ago at Tokyo 2020. Her husband encouraged her on the road Lorenzo Dessiformer walker and youth coach of the Fiamme Gialle chosen after the breakup with the historic coach Patrick Parcesepe. A spectacular image, that of the walker in the Foro Italico Park, on the circuit created around the Stadio dei Marmi to be repeated 19 times. But the Apulian from Mottola, who lives with her husband in Dragona in the province of Rome and trains in the Castelporziano area, also had the honor of finishing her race in the Olympic stadium, a historic athletics finish after years in which the goals had been moved outside (the 2020 Games even took place in Sapporo.

Palmisano immediately took the lead, breaking up the group with her pace. Before leaving she tied the flower prepared as always by her mother to her hair, but she soon lost it. However, she didn’t lose her pace. At km 12 the advantage became 7 seconds, then with a partial time of 4’20” the advantage 5 km from the finish line became almost a sentence: 26?. Something to manage, like Antonella did with the tricolor at the finish line at the Olimpico, like Valentina Trapletti who broke away from her opponents to go and take the silver.