Oran 2022: bowls make San Marino’s medal table fly. Today a gold, a silver and a bronze
It is of a gold, a silver and a bronze the balance of the fourth day of competitions at the Mediterranean Games for the blue and white colors.
Medals that came from bowls, in the four finals (two for gold and two for bronze) played by the biancazzurri.
They have conquered gold Anna Maria Ciucci and Stella Paoletti in the women’s doubles against the Italians Flavia Morelli and Ilaria Treccani, beats 12-3. Ciucci’s experience was decisive, who after various editions of the Mediterranean Games, where she had already won medals, won the most beautiful laurel together with the very young Stella Paoletti, whom she herself introduced to the world of bowls. About her A “creature” of her, with whom she has most reached the experience of her career today.
The final for the 1st and 2nd place of the men’s doubles was very tight, which he saw Enrico Dall’Olmo and Jacopo Frisoni opposed to the blues Mattia Visconti and Marco Di Nicola. A favorable start to the Italians, but then it was the biancazzurri who moved forward in the score. The blue couple, however, always remained in the game and, at 7-7, with time expired, they placed the decisive extension (10-7).
In the final for the men’s individual third place, the best was seen again Enrico Dall’Olmo. Under 6-1 against the Frenchman Rouault, the white and blue athlete managed to get the game back on its feet, making contact with the opponent, and then overtook him in the final, going on to win 12-10.
Gradient medal, on the other hand, for Stella Paoletti in the final of the female individual. The biancazzurra gave 12-5 to the Italian Flavia Morelli and therefore closes in fourth place.
TABLE TENNIS
After closing his qualifying round in third place, with one victory and two defeats, Federico Giardi today faced the consolation round in the men’s individual table tennis tournament. This morning for the San Marino tennis player a 4-0 victory came from the moment that the Kosovar Mahmuti did not show up.
In the early afternoon, then, Giardi faced the Greek Kostantinopoulos, losing 3-0, but fighting evenly, especially in the third set. For him, the adventure at the Mediterranean Games ends.
ARCHERY
In the morning the archer Jacopo Forlani made his debut at the Mediterranean Games. In the ranking round the white-blue athlete finished in 32nd place out of 36 archers at the start, with a score of 566 slightly below his standards.
In the direct clashes, the San Marino player then had to challenge the Cypriot Karageorgiou, who won 6-2, putting an end to Forlani’s path in the competition.
“From a mental point of view today I was a bit weak and I scored a little fewer points than usual – his comment at the end of the race -. In the clashes I have always lacked something to do that little bit more. On the contrary, I think my opponent found greater determination than in qualifying. Archery is like this, sometimes an arrow is enough to change everything “.
ATHLETICS
Tomorrow the white and blue of athletics will make their debut, arrived yesterday in Oran together with the swimming and taekwondo athletes. On the program the 100 meters and the batteries of the 400 obstacles.