The Brazilian wins with a great comeback. Fortunato closes 16th. Double for the Spanish, great friend of Antonella, 15th place for Mihai
The Brazilian Caio Bonfim and the Spanish Maria Perez; Here are the winners of the 20 km march at the Tokyo 2025 World Cup. Little glory for the Azzurri: Antonella Palmisano, already silver in the 35 km, retires shortly before 12th km, when traveling around tenth place; For the other honorable placements.
women
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First women, starting at 7.30 in the rooms: the conditions, compared to the test on the longest distance, are less extreme. Antonella is in the head group. We have left until 9th km. Then he begins to lose something: at the 10th, halfway through the race (43’43 “), he is ninth with a delay from the first of 6”. In the following km he loses another 15 “and shortly thereafter, before the refueling area, when he crosses the gaze of the husband -coach Lorenzo Dessi, he sets aside. The effort of the 35 km made himself heard, a week was not enough to recover it.” I knew I could have paid muscle fatigue -explains the Pugliese financera -: I had taken it into account. The high rhythm did not scare me, but the legs stopped responding. After retiring to the Paris Olympiad, I had promised myself not to diminish me: this time it will not happen. I have to be happy with my path and to go home with a silver. I wanted to wait at the finish line Maria, as a sign of gratitude for our friendship “. The Spanish, unleashed, very severe partial square, requires the skimming of the head of the head and signs the brace, as already in Budapest 2023: it is the undisputed number one of the specialty. He closes in a large 1h25’54”: behind him the Mexican Alegna Gonzalez are placed behind him (1h26’06 “) and, for the joy of the home audience, the Japanese Nanako Fujii (1h’26” 18), both of the national record. Alexandrina Mihai, in July European gold under 23, is fifteenth (1h29’44 “), Federica Curiazzi seventeenth (1h29’48”).
men
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Two and a half hours later it’s up to men. In the race that in the 1991 edition saw the triumph of Maurizio Damilano, the Bonfim ending – also Olympic silver and twice world championship bronze – is overwhelming. At the 16th km it is eighth, at the 18th he has 17 “delay. But he literally changes gear and, between continuous twists, goes to impose himself in 1h18’35” in front of the Chinese Wang Zhaozhao (1h18’43 “) and the Spanish Paul McGrath (1h18’45”). The Azzurri: Francesco Fortunato is 16th (1h21’00 “), Gianluca Picchitotino 34 ° (1h23’50”) and Andrea like this, thanks to a stop of 2 ‘in the penalty box at the 14th km after the third red card – 36 ° (1h24’18 “).