At the third edition of the Leo Brugnone d’oro award, organized on Saturday evening at the multipurpose structure of Pianto Romano in Marsala, the Libyan sports clubs and realities that stood out the most in the 2023/24 sporting year were awarded. The event was organized to remember a young man from Marsala who passed away 24 years ago at the age of seventeen. Leo Brugnone was a young man like many others, with a strong propensity for sports with the motto “play play as long as you can”. Leo, who tragically passed away in 2000, was remembered on stage by his family and his cousin Sergio Alagna, creator of the Leo Brugnone D’oro award. Among the various companies, gyms and individual athletes awarded there was also Miles_Thenx of Gaspare Ventimiglia with some of the athletes who last May were protagonists in the national final of calisthenics in Fontanellato in the province of Parma. The award was recognized to the entire movement put together by coach Ventimiglia himself, who together with his most representative athletes, gave the audience a moment of demonstration of what calisthenics is. The recognition of the Leo Brugnone d’oro award to Miles_Thenx was assigned for the results obtained in the national final by Ignazio Giglio, first in the male skills category for the years from 27 to 40, Nino Giacalone second in the male skills category for the years from 18 to 27, fourth place in the advanced obtained by Gaspare Ventimiglia, in the intermediate endurance by Simone Buonocore and the seventh place obtained by Lorenzo Noè, in the intermediate skills male. Two out of five athletes who occupied the highest steps of the podium in their respective categories that place the Marsala calisthenics among the excellences of the city’s sport. “An award that I can only share with the athletes who follow me and trust me – Ventimiglia declared on stage at the award ceremony – I can only be proud of my work for what, without even realizing it, is being created within my work space, where every day I see more and more passion among my students for this discipline that is slowly growing in interest.” The Miles_Thenx activities, curated by the staff born within the gym, will not stop for the summer of 2024 and other dates of other events will be communicated soon, where Gaspare Ventimiglia’s boys will perform and also involve the public.
