{"id":125464,"date":"2026-10-09T23:19:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T21:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/?p=125464"},"modified":"2026-10-09T23:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T21:38:19","slug":"italia-agli-europei-paralimpici-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/italia-agli-europei-paralimpici-cardiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy at the 2026 Paralympic European Championships in Cardiff: gold and two bronze medals in fencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>CARDIFF<\/strong> The Italian Paralympic fencing team achieved significant results on day four of the 2026 European Paralympic Championships in Cardiff, winning one gold and two bronze medals. Edoardo Giordan became European champion in the men&#039;s saber category A, while Julia Markowska and Amelio Castro took third place in the women&#039;s \u00e9p\u00e9e category B and men&#039;s saber category B, respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Giordan, a bronze medalist at the 2024 Paris Paralympics, won his first individual European gold medal after four previous appearances. He overcame notable opponents, including Greece&#039;s Ntounis and Ukraine&#039;s Artem Manko, before defeating Hungary&#039;s Richard Osvath 15-10 in the final. Also in the A category, Mattia Galvagno failed to reach the round of 16, finishing 14th.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Julia Markowska won bronze in the women&#039;s \u00e9p\u00e9e B category, her first individual medal at a European Championship, losing in the semifinals with a thrilling 15-14 defeat to Poland&#039;s Karolina Strawinska. Sofia Brunati finished 14th in the same category.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the men&#039;s saber category B, Amelio Castro won bronze following the exclusion of his teammate Gianmarco Paolucci for a rules violation. Castro had won against Britain&#039;s Shah and lost in the quarterfinals to Coutya. Andrea Jacquier placed sixth, while Davide Costi finished 22nd.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">La squadra azzurra arriva cos\u00ec a un totale di otto medaglie, di cui tre d&#8217;oro, superando gi\u00e0 il bottino della precedente edizione europea del 2024 a Parigi. Le competizioni proseguiranno con le gare individuali di fioretto maschile e sciabola femminile, che vedranno in pedana diversi atleti italiani.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italia trionfa con oro di Giordan e due bronzi di Markowska e Castro negli Europei Paralimpici di scherma a Cardiff 2026, con otto medaglie totali.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sb_editor_width":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[4767],"tags":[4600,4599,323,4842,4843,4606],"ppma_author":[30],"class_list":["post-125464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scherma","tag-cardiff-2026","tag-europei-paralimpici","tag-italia","tag-scherma","tag-sciabola","tag-spada"],"relative_dates":{"created":"5 days ago","modified":"5 days ago"},"authors":[{"term_id":30,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"paolopicone","display_name":"Redazione Centrale","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/54de8379a15a6539d41f5cd43c1b6fc220d10161ae5fefcd739b4111632a6a1a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","first_name":"Redazione","last_name":"Centrale","user_url":"https:\/\/primasport.eu","author_category":"0","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125466,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125464\/revisions\/125466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125464"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=125464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}