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Andrea Biancalani iridato C4 secondo oro azzurro ai mondiali di paraciclismo

08 September

Andrea Biancalani, Italian C4 champion, wins second gold at the Para-Cycling World Championships

Ana Maria Vitelaru, Andrea Biancalani, Andrea Lauria, Andrea Tarlao, Chiara Colombo, Claudia Cretti, Davide Cortini, Elena Bissolati, Federico Andreoli, Francesco Di Felice. Lorenzo Bernard, guide Noemi Lucrezia Eremita, Luca Mazzone, Marianna Agostini, Mirko Testa, Paolo Totò, Pierpaolo Addesi, Richard Stacchiotti

HUNTSVILLE - The Paracycling World Championships in Huntsville, Alabama, concluded with a gold medal for the Italian team led by coach Pierpaolo Addesi. Andrea Biancalani is the new world champion in the C4 category. The Italian won the six-lap race in 2:00:05, edging out France's Kevin Le Cunff and Britain's Archie Atkinson in the sprint. Giacomo Salvalaggio also came within a hair's breadth of the podium in fourth, while Andrea Lauria finished twelfth, 41 seconds behind. The second medal came from the women's tandem, where Marianna Agostini (led by Noemi Lucrezia Eremita) took bronze. Britain's Sophie Unwin won in 2:03:30.

17 podiums for Active Team La Leonessa at the Italian Paracycling Championships with titles for Mirko Testa and Marianna Agostini

Active Team La Leonessa, Davide Cortini, Domus Salutis., Hector Biancalani, Federico Andreoli, Francis Di Felice, Julius Bertani, Joseph Uberti, Lorenzo Bernard, Lucrezia Noemi Eremita, Marco Colombo, Marianna Agostini, Martino Pini, Mirko Pini, Mirko Testa, Nico Sartini, paracycling, Simona Canipari, Vito Lascaro

Brescia – The Italian Paracycling Championships, held in Zoppola, in the province of Pordenone, saw Active Team La Leonessa collect 17 podium finishes, including three Italian titles. A long series of impressive results, including two Italian titles for Marianna Agostini, who dominated both Saturday's time trial and the road race in the tandem event for visually impaired athletes, and for Mirko Testa, who once again became the national leader in the H3 handbike category, despite a slight illness that prevented him from completing the race at full speed.

Italy first in the medal table at the European Paracycling Championships

Andrea Biancalani, European Paracycling Championship, Claudia Cretti, Cordiano Dagnoni, Davide Cortini, Fabrizio Cornegliani, Federico Andreoli, Francis Di Felice, Francesco Galimberti, James Salvalaggio, Giorgio Farroni, Lorenzo Bernard, Luca Mazzone, Marianna Agostini, Mirko Testa, Noemi Hermit, Paolo Totò, Roberta Amadeo

MANIAGO AND MONTEREALE VALCELLINA - 10 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze: Italy finished first in the medal table at the European Para-cycling Championships, held in Maniago and Montereale Valcellina. The final three continental jerseys for the Italians were won by Claudia Cretti (WC5), Andrea Biancalani (MC4), and the duo of Lorenzo Bernard and Paolo Totò. Among the most significant images of the final day was that of Andrea Biancalani. After the error in the time trial that cost him a podium finish, the young Italian responded in style: staying in the thick of the action until…