First medal in the specialty for the 28 -year -old Tuscany, it is the encore after 10 km. Decima Gabbrielleschi
Another silver and a great confirmation for women’s fund for the Fondo to the Singapore World Cup. On the island of Sentosa with the less hot water, but always at 27 degrees, Geneva Taddeucci makes an encore in the 5 km: second again behind the Australian Moesha Johnson who triumphs in 1h02’01 “3. A second difference for the benefit of the Australian, the bronze is by the Japanese Ichika Kajmmoto in 1h02’28” 9. It is the first world medal in the specialty for the 28 -year -old Tuscan policeman coached by Giovanni Pistelli, three years after the bronze by Giulia Gabbrielleschi, this time tenth in 1h03’40 “after a year in which he had to slow down to conclude the Master in criminology. Says Giulia, who remained linked from the first lap, in difficulty in the final and returned from the sixth European place:” I hoped for this year ” I made less training. I needed to put my life back in place and build something outside. The Olympic year was difficult and stressful. The rhythm in front was unsustainable for me, I did my race by limiting the damage. “On Sunday it will return to the relay.
Confirm and Costanza
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For Geneva, Olympic bronze a year ago in the Senna and European Champion in charge, it is the world brace as Arianna Bridi managed to do in 2017 in Budapest, bis 5-10 km like Viola Valli in 2001 and 2003. In the last 500 meters the blue has tried to attack the rival several times without however being able to prevail. A renewed comparison in the race made less infernal by the climatic conditions: the Olympic vice -champion Johnson has the pace from the first strokes with the Taddeucci for the three 1,666 laps in the quadrilateral delimited by the buoys. Behind there are the bronze of the 10 km, the Monegasca Pou, the Spanish Maria de Valdes and the Brazilian Olympian Ana Marcela Cunha. The rhythm of the Australian increases in the last lap and the two in front create the void after the skipped supply.
the ending
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One kilometer from the end Geneva accelerates, rekindle, insists in an overtaking attempt following different trajectories, but Johnson responds blow for blow. In the final cone the last attack on the right of Fiorentina, but it is Johnson who completes the golden brace. “I tried in all ways and I’m happy with this other medal,” said Tuscany smiling after the second gem collected and in a season without respite, with nine cup races and the European triumph in Croatia: “At the end I saw my opponent to work hard, but I was unable to overtake it. It also complained but I did not understand why, I knew it would be a pace from the beginning. The water did not seem so hot. A silver who pairs with the most complicated one in the double and Olympic distance: “After Paris I made an upgrade – he resumes -. Two silver are the light for the life of an athlete who also has a dark side, such as the effort of training and the many renunciations. Now I will have two more races and point more on the mixed relay (in the Sprint race he will swim with Antonietta Cesarano). Despite having made less training this year “. It will not be picked up after the World Cup, as it was feared. The medals are the best fuel to continue up to Los Angeles 2028. It is not the second strongest fund in the world by chance.
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