In Pisa the Italian Individual Petanque Petanque Female A and Male D
Under the Leaning Tower on Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 September the individual Italian titles of Bocce Petanque specialty of categories A Female and D Male will be awarded. In fact, Pisa will host the Italian Petanque Bocce Championships for these categories, organized by Pisa Bocce on the outdoor courts of Cus Pisa, a historical reality and sporting institution in the area, with the patronage of the Municipality of Pisa. The initiative was presented this morning, Wednesday 7 September, with a press conference at Palazzo Gambacorti in the presence of the mayor of Pisa, the regional president of the Italian Bocce Federation, Giancarlo Gosti, the president of Asd Pisa Bocce, Carlo Lazzeroni, and by Giacomo Bacci representing Coni.
This is a first in many ways. In Tuscany, after so many events of the tricolor specialty of the Raffa specialty, a National Bocce Championship is being played by the Italian Bocce Federation. Pisa Bocce, for its part, is organizing its first event of this magnitude, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of its birth. Pisa Bocce from a small company born to convey the will and enthusiasm to play has become a solid sporting reality point of reference in the area with 50 subscribers, of which some juniors already participating in national events, and many events organized both sporting and social with schools and associations dedicated to disability. From the competitive point of view, the Petanque Women’s Individual Italian Championships cat. Cat A and Masculine. D will start at 2 pm on Saturday 10 September, while on Sunday morning from 10 the semifinals will be played and the finals will follow.
Competing for the titles at stake will be the best 10 Italian athletes of cat. A and 31 athletes of cat. D., including 3 representatives of Pisa Bocce (Carlo Lazzeroni, Mario Di Ruscio and Michele Di Ruscio) and the Florentine Enza Lombardi of the US Affrico. The participants will be in Pisa after winning the regional stages. Players and players come from all over Italy: from Emilia Romagna, Lazio, Campania, Friuli Venezia Giulia, with obvious prevalence of the regions of the North West (Piedmont and Liguria) where the Petanque specialty has always had many fans and expresses the best athletes. The race will take place in via Chiarugi at the CUS Pisa, thanks to the availability of the management with which FIB Toscana and Pisa Bocce have a collaborative relationship, given that the Viale delle Piagge, the historic competition venue of the Pisan club, did not have sufficient space to set up the fields necessary for the success of the event. Pisa Bocce is committed to organizing this event in the best possible way, also to worthily remember the vice president Mario Gioli, who passed away at the end of July, who contributed to the establishment of the organizing committee of this event. So, an appointment in Pisa with the ‘French’ specialty of small metal bowls for the weekend of 10-11 September.