Great test in Poland for the Judo athlete Kwai Amiatino.
Is it possible for more than 40 years, of which more than 30 to tread the tatamis around the world, to want to question and confront at high levels?
If your name is Cristina Magini, yes!
Only one piece was missing to complete his palmares, which includes national youth and Masters titles and a European title, an individual world title (yes, because he had already won the team title in Frankfurt in 2011) and he won it on Sunday 11 September in Krakow, Poland, during the World Masters Championships where 837 veteran athletes from 60 nations competed, including 44 Italian athletes, 35 men and 9 women.
He brought the city that gave birth to Pope John Paul II to the strong Pianese athlete who wanted with all his might this title that was missing really well.
She spent an entire summer preparing this important appointment under the technical direction of her partner / teacher Marco Gigli, sacrificing her holidays but for years she had had this dream in mind that became reality and in this 2022 only this mattered for her.
To separate her from that gold was the solid and strong Canadian athlete who gave her a hard time in both challenges of the final, always bringing her to the golden score, won first by waza ari and then by ippon.
What can I say, a dream come true and above all if you can share it with your life partner in the coach’s chair to give you advice and if you can take your 5-year-old son to the podium with you, you can’t ask for more.
Could this be the final goal of a bright and successful career for Cristina?
We think not because as long as she can give her fans satisfactions she will find the right reasons to go on, especially if, like this year, a world title coincides with the 45th anniversary of the foundation of her gym, the Judo Kwai Amiatino.
