Absolutes of fencing in Courmayeur: dates, competitions, program, initiatives

High altitude fencing. From 31 May to 5 June 2022 Courmayeur will in fact host the absolute Italian championships that were presented today in Milan at the Istituto Auxologico Italiano San Luca hospital, which through its experts will contribute to the event with conferences in the Aosta Valley, represented in the presentation by mayor of Courmayeur Roberto Rota. Carola Mangiarotti participated, the daughter of the champion Edoardo Mangiarotti whose centenary from her birth was celebrated on Wednesday. There were federal councilors Jelle Piccinino and Roberto Ancarani who rattled off the numbers of the most important traveling national review (in 2023 Macerata), or 411 fencers in 6 weapons and 72 teams for team trials. “A week of great fencing, with the best of the national movement in a beautiful showcase for our sport and the territory that will host us. We are ready to experience 12 top-level competitions, both individual and team, and to affirm more and more the sport-culture combination that the Federation particularly cares about “, says Ancarani, also bringing greetings from Federal President Paolo Azzi. “We present an event full of samples and embellished with symposiums of high scientific, legal and cultural value which, thanks to Auxologico, the Milan Bar Association, Unicusano and several other partners who have married this adventure , will make this edition of the Absolutes even more special, “said Piccinino.

The first time in Courmayeur

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Representing the CONI was the vice president Claudia Giordani: “I bring greetings from the President of the Olympic Committee, Giovanni Malagò, and I embrace the Italian fencing that more than any other discipline has given prestige and medals to our country. meet for a beautiful event, which will enhance competition and culture thanks to the rich billboard prepared by the organizers “. Mayor Rota recalled the “great organizational tradition” of the Aosta Valley city in hosting sporting events, its “vocation to welcome and the expectation for the absolute debut of fencing, a discipline of enormous charm and tradition for Italian sport” all shadow of Mont Blanc. The President of the Courmayeur 2022 Committee, Giovanna Pesci underlined how “this challenge starts from afar, and has been made possible thanks to an important teamwork that will lead to the creation of an event capable of representing an extraordinary promotional postcard for fencing” . Dr. Antonio Robecchi Majnardi from the Neuromotor Rehabilitation Unit of Auxologico Capitanio in Milan, National Sword Instructor and former national level athlete, also spoke. The venue for the ‘official baptism’ of the event was chosen in the wake of the common planning undertaken between the Federation and the Italian Auxologico, which will collaborate for the in-depth scientific symposia organized in Courmayeur. Not only sport as well-being, as art, exhibitions, insights, in short, many events that will make Courmayeur the home of fencing.

The big names on the platform

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On the platform all the big blues, from the foil couple Daniele Garozzo-Alice Volpi, to the swordsman Rossella Fiamingo and to the saber-maker Gregorio, in preparation for the European Championships in mid-June in Antalya and the World Championships in July in Cairo. The program of tests will be divided by weapon (first with the individual competitions and then the team ones): on May 31 and June 1 will be the days dedicated to foil, the two following days will be dedicated to swordplay, while on June 4 and 5 the Championships will be closed by the saber. All live on Rai. The first of the two in-depth symposia will deal with the neurophysiological, psychological and biomechanical aspects of the sporting gesture and its teaching, without forgetting the traumatic consequences of incorrect gestures. The second will investigate the behavioral and metabolic aspects of food and nutrition, intended as possible tools for health and health prevention, but also for pathology. Particular attention will be given to fencing but the horizon will be the broader one of a reflection on how Medicine can help Sport and on how Sport can also prove to be Medicine.