From the Korean wall to Los Angeles 2028, sports climbing focuses on the viewfinder towards the debut at the Paralympic Games
Present satisfaction and look to the future for the Italian national team of Para Climbing after The World Championships in Seoul. Two female silver. Medals that the President of the Fasi Davide Battistella He defines “an important signal. This confirms that we are working well, with good prospects, and we must not give up an inch, because the los angeles 2028 paralympics are close and I am sure they will see us among the protagonists”. The DT Cristina Cascone It traces a certainly positive balance of this adventure: “Bringing two silver medals to Italy, having at home the two vice champions of the world of category B1 and AU2, is a great satisfaction that repays us for the demanding work carried out in recent years and bodes us well for the future, because surely We have a rose of athletes with the potential to go to the medal, in addition to today’s winners. A dutiful thanks to all technical staff: Mental Coach Luca Montanari, coach Camilla Bandazzoli and physiotherapists Daniele Audia and Francesco Leonardelli “.
Para Climbing 2025 World Championships: the Azzuri’s silver
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Lucia Capovilla He was crowned vice world champion in the Au2 category. The result that Bessa the silver of Bern 2023. With a test of physical and mental tenacity, he inserted himself behind the French solemn Piret. Bronze for the American Eleanor Rubin. “There is a little disappointment – admits the athlete – because I was unable to give everything I wanted this year, but the tracking has so much influence and is part of the game. The goal is to have fun on the wall, the medal is a consequence of how much I can feel free and serene in the race. The arrival of Los Angeles 2028 is a dream that gives a good push to commit even more “. The second silver is in the female B1 category. The Italian champion Nadia Bretadicewith the skilled guide of Sonia Ciprianiafter the bronze of the Moscow World Championships 2021, he was able to climb the podium of a further step, reaching the socket 37. Better the Japanese Hiromi Aoki better than her, who landed at the 39+ socket. Bronze at the Slovenian Tanja Glusic. “A beautiful strong emotional balance – comments Nadia Bretadice – The World Cup is always the world championship: very excited, you prepare it for a long time, you wait for it so much. Overall I am happy with how it went, I would have liked something more obviously, but it is all experience and makes it grow. I am happy to have shared this experience with Sonia, without her all this could not even dream. It was all very beautiful and powerful. “Sonia Cipriani, for her part, defines this very intense and highly anticipated world championship. I don’t deny it, we pointed to gold, but we are already waiting for the next World Cup, very short in Laval, because it is not over here, and we hope to make up for it, always aiming high. We are working well, looking to the future, and we believe it a lot“.
screw one step away from gold
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Lucia Capovilla, born in 1993, is the Italian champion of the AU2 category. She was born without the left forearm. He started climbing when he was in middle schools, using the prosthesis, but he never believed to be all the way he was a sport suitable for her. Then the turning point in 2015 when, trying without the prosthesis, everything was more natural to her: “I fell in love with the climbing when I realized that I allow myself to finally use my whole body“He says. He says two years ago he left his employment indefinitely as a nurse to follow his passion for climbing. He works in a withdrawal center and keeps workshops and lessons in schools as a motivational trainer, to teach children and adults to enhance his diversity. Lucia is determined and aware, ready to give everything for everything to overcome their limits more and more:” For me, the climbing is a challenge for me to face it from time to time Things with a different mode requires me to find a solution at all costs “. His” silver co -star “on the Korean wall is Nadia Bretadice, 37 years old, Italian champion B1 category, blind from a degenerative disease. The discipline that sees her today vice champion of the world in her category has entered her life by pure chance, thanks to the input of some friends in 2017. In a very short time she fell in love with it: “a burning passion”, as Nadia says. “It seems that it is a purely adrenaline and risk sport. Instead for me it is something that frees my mind, it leads me back to a meditative moment, of balance, concentration and connection with my body. It is a dance”. Nadia worked as a museum guide and as a singing teacher. But now there is a sport climbing that engages it 18 hours a week. “The climbing gave me the new life that I would never have imagined. At the same time he put me to the test. For me it means entering a concentration bubble, being careful of breathing, preserving the physical and above all mental fit “. In honor of these two athletes, the words of the President of the Italian Paralympic Committee, Marco Giunio de Sanctis: “The medals conquered by Nadia Bretadice and Lucia Capovilla at the World Championships in Seoul are the confirmation of the leading role that Italy continues to play on the international scene. Two prestigious results that project us with confidence to the future. The two silver also represent an ideal viaticum for the path of Italy of the para CLIMBING Italy towards the games of Los Angeles 2028, where the sports climbing will make its historic debut in the program in the program in the program in the program Paralympic. I am sure that this is only the beginning of a path that will continue to give us satisfactions and successes“.
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