L’love for sport practiced since childhood has led the two athletes of the New Kodokan of San Pietro al Tanagro, Viki and Alessia Amendola, to achieve great sporting results. Many medals have been won in recent years and for them the 2020/2021 sports season, despite the pandemic, has been very lucky.
This beginning of 2022 was also marked by large participations: Alessia is Italian Champion of Pankration and has won 4 titles at the European Championships in the Pankration specialties. She also finished seventh last year at the national Judo finals, this year she finished fifth at the AI Italian Judo Championships where she earned the title of athlete of national interest for the 2022/2023 season and ranked fourth in the Italian Wrestling Championships 2021. Finally, he also conquered the second place ai Italian Cadet Under 17 Championships in Olympic Wrestling in Ostia. Soon the young athlete will leave in retreat with the national team for the 2022 World and European Cadet Championships.
Viki, on the other hand, is Italian team championcame third ai Italian Junior Championshipshas conquered silver at the Italian Wrestling Championships 2021, she won the 2021 Italian Wrestling Cup and finished third at the Italian Absolute Olympic Wrestling Championships. Her participation for the first time with the is significant blue shirt of the National ai European Under 23 Wrestling Championships in Plovdiv, in Bulgaria, and as a junior athlete he competed with the first team where he was the only civilian in the European team. In this period she is preparing for the European Championships to be held in June and the World Cup in September.
To accompany the two young athletes, as always, the Maestro Pietro Amendola and the Maestro Michele Amendola.
To the microphones of Ondanews the two very young champions tell how they lived their last experiences in the European and Italian fields and the objectives to be achieved for this season in Judo, Wrestling and Pankration.