The silver medal placed around his neck by Bright Maddaloni Nosa in the 81 kg and the bronze won by Erica Simonetti in the +78 kg, they completed the blue expedition to lineupin Polandon the occasion of European under 23 championships.
Italy, which will not be present at the Mixed-Teams team competition tomorrow, thus concluded this under 23 European Championship in Poland with seven medals, and is the nation with the most medals, although in fifth place in the medal table for nations preceded by Georgia , Holland, Azerbaijan and Spain.
“Today also gave us great emotions and two other important medals which bring the tally to 7. – is the comment of the Italian coach Francesco Bruyere– This is certainly an excellent result considering that we left several matches within our reach on the street and that due to different programming needs we left some of our very young top Olympic and world players at home. We are happy with the result obtained, a snapshot of good basic work carried out in Italian clubs, for this reason I renew my congratulations to these athletes and their technicians.”
Bright Maddaloni Nosa reached the 81 kg final with four victories over the Serbian Velimir Kosovic, the Turkish Musa Simsek, the Israeli Yaniv Agronov and in the semi-final over the Czech Petr Mlady. In the gold final, thanks to an injury, Maddaloni Nosa remained on the tatami but was defeated by the Azerbaijani Kote Kapanadze. Erica Simonetti also got on the podium who, after the victory over Montenegrin Jovana Mrvaljevic, was defeated in the quarterfinals by Estonian Emma-Melis Aktas. In the reucpero Simonetti won over the Dutch Paulien Sweers and in the bronze final over the other Dutch Carmen Dijkstra.
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