The Italian team returned from the World Championships held in retrorunning land in Kapfenberg (Styria) once again ranked first in the nation as well with 39 medals including 15 gold seals, 13 silvers and 11 bronzes.
The haul could have been much greater because you can count 14 medals wood, most of which won or lost the podium, as you prefer, by a whisker.
The nations participating in this particular sport that is emerging across Europe were as many as 14 with about 140 athletes present who battled over various distances: 100, 200, 400, 800, 1,500, 3,000, 5,000, 10,000 meters, relay 4x100 and 4x400 meters.
The securities to be allotted, whereas the participants were divided into two categories, absolute master and up to 45 years from 46 upwards, male and female were 40 and of these some 15 have been won by our standard bearers, with the whole team at the awards ceremony accompanied by singing the national anthem.
If we add to these athletes who have risen on the second and third place, overall medals become like that 39, almost 33% of the medals awarded.
The nations represented, in addition to the home team, Austria, were the neighboring Germany, Italy and Catalonia - Spain, followed by Poland, Taiwan, England, etc.., With some countries participating for the first time and many new faces among the participants, a sign that the sport is growing abroad after the strong growth in Italy where he had already counted forty races, although currently concentrated in Versilia, Tuscany and in Padua.
Returning to the races, we highlight the evidence of Master Giorgio Brizzi from Massa, who won all his races even with gold in two relays, same result for Gozzo Massimo Ferrara. Excellent proof of the absolute and Paul Michael Ciriaco Prato Tarabella from Camaiore in the German team that had their opponents almost unapproachable. As for the female sector, good evidence of absolute Marga Dolfi from Prato and Rita Loberti from Ferrara, as well as the Master Carla Caregno from Padua, who won three individual golds and two silvers in the relay.
It 'not any medal, not so much demerit of the components of the Italian team but for the presence of new elements and new nations, which have partially changed the expectations of the vigil. A big applause to the team still is blue literally made you feel at the time of the awards accompanied by singing the national anthem for the winners and with the encouragement of the components involved in the race, imitated almost immediately by the Catalans and the other teams in the race. This has helped to highlight a healthy competitive spirit, with gestures of fair play and reciprocal chivalry even the air we breathed was so competitive, but with friendship and commitment to the spread of retrorunning.
Last day of competition, between the other awards, he began to talk about the next World 2012 and the nation that has declared most of this is the Catalunya-Spain, and possibly call in the international competition in town of Lleida, the sixth largest city in this region of Spain.
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