Battipaglia. On Friday 5 August, at 8.30 pm, at the municipal villa “Ezio Maria Longo” in via Domodossola, on the occasion of the Beer Festival, the “Atleta battipagliese 2021” event will be held. Created by the journalist Paolo De Vita and organized by the online newspaper Battipaglia1929.it and by the sports information site Spunti & Appunti.com.
The initiative, now in its third edition, will reward companies, athletes who have particularly distinguished themselves and those who have obtained institutional recognition in the year 2021. Unfortunately, due to Covid, which prevented the celebration of the event last December, the Battipagliese Athlete “travels” almost a year later than the “solar calendar”. To obviate, at least partially, this time gap, the organizers have decided to include the clubs that won their respective championships last spring.
All the other winners of 2022 will, on the other hand, be awarded on the occasion of the 4th edition of “Atleta battipagliese” when, hopefully, it will be possible to “balance the score” between the year that is going to end and the one that is going to begin! As per the consolidated ritual, “Atleta battipagliese 2021”, will not fail to look at the past of city sport by assigning prizes to the career, to the memory and to the protagonists of important sporting events, now dated.
This is the list, drawn up in strict alphabetical order, of the winners of “Atleta battipagliese 2021”:
• Ambrosano Francesco – Promotion to Serie C Gold Pallacanestro Sala Consilina;
• ASD Atletico Battipaglia – Promoted to the first category football championship;
• ASD Battipagliese – Promoted to the first category football championship;
• ASD Calcio Stella – Promoted to the second category football championship;
• ASD Volleyball Battipaglia – Promoted to the Serie C men’s volleyball championship;
• Jury Calabrese – National Councilor of the Italian Footballers Association;
• Antonio Cannalonga – First classified Italian Absolute Championships cat. Students – javelin throw;
• Angelo Cappelli – National component of the FIGC Technical Sector Italian Association of Football Referees;
• Mario Conforti – Debut in the Serie A3 volleyball championship with ka Tya Marigliano;
• Domenico De Concilio – Lifetime Achievement Award – youth football coach;
• Giovanni De Luca – K1 Rules World Champion;
• Attilio Di Canto – Muay Tay Italian Champion;
• Nunzia Gammella – Fourth place in IRONMAN category S4;
• Ferdinando Giannattasio – Memorial Award – men’s and women’s basketball coach;
• ICI Sport – Italian champion club – fin swimming;
• Omeps Givova BricUp Battipaglia – winner of the Italian Under 20 Cup;
• Omeps Soced Afora Battipaglia – Campania Serie D Cup;
• Roberto Orlando – First place in the absolute Italian Championships – javelin throw;
• Luigi Pippa – Second place in the absolute Italian judo championships category 81 kg;
• Silvana Polito – National convocation for young fins swimming;
• Raffaella Potolicchio – Debut (2020) Serie A1 Basket Omeps Givova Battipaglia championship;
• Vincenzo Spinelli – CONI bronze star for merit as Paralympic sports manager;
• Fabio Staibano – Rugby career award for having distinguished himself nationally and internationally;
• US Battipagliese 1929 1975-76 edition – Promoted to Promotion, winner of the regional title and the Montuori cup;
• Antonio Verdoliva – Second place in the finswimming world youth championships 4 × 50 Surface Mixed relay;
• Malinka Wojcikowski – First classified Italian cadet championships – javelin throw.
