Maria Centracchio in the top 5 of Italian athletes of the year. The Olympian was included, by right, among the best in the ‘Revelation women’ category within the circuit ‘Italian Sportrait Awards‘. It is an event organized by Confsport Italia, an association of social promotion active for over thirty years.
The judoka from Molise, a historic bronze medalist at the Tokyo Olympics, can thus aspire to another prestigious award:his name will be examined by the popular jury who will vote through the site www.italiansportraitawards.it your best athlete to decide the prize winner of each category.
In the quintet of selected athletes, in the same category we also find the weightlifter Giorgia Bordignon, the Olympic bronze medalist in boxing Irma Testa, the archer Lucilla Boari and the karateka Viviana Bottaro. In short, a close fight that will see the winner in any case an excellence of Italian sport.
Naturally, the whole Molise will cheer for Maria, which thrilled an entire region at the end of July with its most unique and rare third place in the five-circle competition. An escalation of victories that led to exultation of thousands of Molisans, proud of the words pronounced by the judoka: “Molise exists and leads strong”.
Voting will go on for a month, until February 20. Among other things, among the voters a name will be drawn for the awarding of the prize to the athletes which will take place in March in Rome.
