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Italia vicecampione del mondo di Flag Football e qualificata a Los Angeles 2028

20 Aug

Italy is the runner-up in the Flag Football World Championship and has qualified for Los Angeles 2028.

FIDAF, Flag Football, Kirsty Coventry, Roger Goodell., Vincenzo Mango

DÜSSELDORF – Italy is the world runner-up in Flag Football. The men's national team won the World Championship with a silver medal, defeated 46-26 by the United States in the final in Düsseldorf after a remarkable run, culminating in a victory over Canada that secured the Azzurri's historic qualification for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Flag football will make its Olympic debut and is the first Italian team sport to qualify. The final was attended by International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Italy…

Dossena si laurea campione d’Italia di tamburello

16 Aug

Dossena wins the Italian tambourine championship

Daniele Consonni, Daniele Trionfini, Dossena Tamburello, Manuel Beltrami

TORRE DE' ROVERI (BG) - Dossena achieved a historic feat, becoming the Italian Tamburello champion for the first time in their history, which began in 1964. In the championship final played in Torre de' Roveri, the Bergamo team, coached by Daniele Consonni and led by Manuel Beltrami (a coach who has won 14 league titles with this team), defeated Mantua's Ceresara 2-0. The scoreline (6-3, 6-0) was clear, spanning over three and a half hours of play. Dossena secured the championship just a year after their Serie A debut and will now face the challenges of…

Asd Dossena e Ceresara in corsa per lo scudetto di palla a tamburello

13 Aug

Asd Dossena and Ceresara in the running for the tambourine championship

Asd Dossena, Ceresara, Fabrizio Pezzini, Italian Tamburello Ball Federation, Manuel Festi

TORRE DE ROVERI (BG) - Dossena-Ceresara will be the final that will decide the 113th championship on Saturday, August 14th in Torre de Roveri, in the province of Bergamo. This match will decide who will succeed Castellaro of Mantua in the Roll of Honor. In the return matches, Dossena defeated a tenacious Segno team two sets to love, who tried to force the Bergamo team to a tie break until the very end. The final score was 6-2 6-4, with Dossena entering the decisive match as the logical favorite against Ceresara, who took the first set in Solferino, lost the second, and then took the…

Il Dream Team del fioretto femminile sul tetto del mondo

30 Jul

The Women's Foil Dream Team on Top of the World

Alberta Santuccio, Anna Cristino., Arianna Errigo, Daniel Garozzo., Philip Macchi, Gaia Caforio, Giulia Rizzi, Guillaume Bianchi, Luigi Mazzone, Martina Batini, Martina Favaretto, Rossella Fiamingo, Thomas Marini, Thomas Martini

Italian fencing finished the 2026 Hong Kong World Championships with its eighth medal. The women's foil Dream Team, composed of Martina Batini, Martina Favaretto, Arianna Errigo, and Anna Cristino, claimed the world title by defeating the American team in the final. The four golds and four silvers represent one of Italy's richest World Championships ever, with the team also dominating the 2026 Hong Kong World Championships' medal table, much to the delight of Italian Federation President Luigi Mazzone and Head of Delegation Daniele Garozzo. The…

Irma Testa e Filippo Tortu portabandiera dell’Italia Team ai XX Giochi del Mediterraneo

30 Jul

Irma Testa and Filippo Tortu, flag bearers for Team Italy at the XX Mediterranean Games

Philip Tortu, Irma Testa, XX Mediterranean Games

Irma Testa and Filippo Tortu will be the flag bearers for Team Italy at the XX Mediterranean Games in Taranto 2026. The boxer from Campania and the sprinter from Lombardy will parade with the Italian flag ahead of the Italian team at the Opening Ceremony, scheduled for Friday, August 21st at the Erasmo Iacovone Stadium in Taranto. Testa, nicknamed "The Butterfly," was the first Italian boxer to compete in the Olympic Games, in Rio 2016. At Tokyo 2020, she then won a stunning bronze medal, also becoming the first Italian boxer to stand on the Olympic podium. She became world champion in the 57 kg at New Delhi 2023, following her silver medal in Istanbul.

L’Italia colpisce di fioretto, fantastica doppietta a squadre al Mondiale di scherma

28 Jul

Italy scores a stunning team double at the World Fencing Championships

Alberta Santuccio, Philip Macchi, Foil, Gaia Caforio, Giulia Rizzi, Guillaume Bianchi, Rossella Fiamingo, Thomas Marini, Thomas Martini

On the first day of team events at the 2019 World Championships in Hong Kong, Italy's fencing team earned two extraordinary gold medals. The foil quartet of Guillaume Bianchi, Filippo Macchi, Tommaso Martini, and Tommaso Marini retained their world championship title with an epic victory in the final against the hosts, Hong Kong. The women's epee team of Alberta Santuccio, Giulia Rizzi, Rossella Fiamingo, and Gaia Caforio also earned gold with a resounding victory against Estonia. This was a historic double win for the Italian women's foil fencers, already Olympic women's epee champions. The foil quartet…

Associazione Senegalesi Bergamaschi, da 20 anni il calcio tra amicizia e integrazione

28 Jul

The Senegalese Bergamaschi Association: 20 years of football, friendship and integration.

ASSOSB, Lima FC Milan, Nawétanes, Seck Cheikh Tidiane, Zingonia

Football as a force for friendship and integration. This is how the ASSOSB Association (Senegalese Association of Bergamo), founded in 1989, has successfully interpreted it for twenty years. Among its various social initiatives, it is celebrating two decades of "Cultural and Sports Days," broadening its horizons to include all of Lombardy. "For 20 years, sport has been more than just competition, and culture is more than just entertainment," explains President Seck Cheikh Tidiane. "For the Association, they have always been tools for coming together, growing, and integrating. The Association has consistently pursued a simple yet powerful project. This is how the…

Martina Favaretto oro iridato nel fioretto femminile, Arianna Errigo è d’argento

27 Jul

Martina Favaretto wins gold in women's foil, Arianna Errigo takes silver.

Anna Cristino., Arianna Errigo, Martina Batini, Martina Favaretto, Valentina Vezzali

Prestigious Italian double in women's foil at the 2026 World Championships in Hong Kong. Italy's women's foil team sparkled with gold and silver at the 2026 World Championships in Hong Kong: Martina Favaretto was crowned world champion, while Arianna Errigo secured second place after an all-Italian final. The 24-year-old from Veneto won the Italian derby 15-7, taking home the first world title of her career, inheriting the title from the legendary captain, who at 38 years old (a full 17 years after her first appearance in Antalya 2009) stands on the world championship podium for the 24th time (11th individually), 2 points behind...

Filippo Macchi e Giulia Rizzi argenti azzurri nella prima giornata dei Mondiali di Scherma

25 Jul

Filippo Macchi and Giulia Rizzi win silver medals for Italy on the first day of the World Fencing Championships.

Alberta Santuccio, Alexander Choupenitch, Philip Macchi, Giulia Rizzi, Thomas Martini

At the 2026 World Championships in Hong Kong, Italy's first two medals were celebrated with silver medals for Filippo Macchi in the men's foil and Giulia Rizzi in the women's épée, both of whom earned their first world championship podium finishes. Filippo Macchi's impressive journey to silver began with a fiercely contested first-round match, which he won with a stunning finish against South Korea's Kim, 15-13. The 24-year-old from Pisa then defeated Japan's Saito 15-10 to advance to the round of 16, where he prevailed 15-12 over Im, another Korean representative who had eliminated Tommaso…

Indagine sull’imbarco negato su volo easyJet alla Nazionale Italiana paralimpica di Powerchair Football

20 Jul

Investigation into the denied boarding of the Italian Paralympic Powerchair Football team on an easyJet flight

Italian Paralympic Committee, easyJet, ENAC, Italian Paralympic Powerchair Sport Federation, Marco Giunio De Sanctis

Six athletes with disabilities, carrying both wheelchairs for daily mobility and six special wheelchairs for play, members of the Italian National Powerchair Football team of the FIPPS (Italian Paralympic Powerchair Sports Federation), were denied boarding at Rome Fiumicino Airport on an easyJet flight to Glasgow, where they were scheduled to compete in a key international tournament ahead of the upcoming World Championships in Argentina. The Italian Paralympic Committee (CIP) denounced this serious incident, expressing its firmest and most profound outrage. FIPPS had previously requested and obtained permission from easyJet, since…