The long wave of the great Italian summer does not stop, on the contrary. This time it was the national basketball team with athletes with Down's syndrome that triumphed. In front of a friendly crowd in Ferrara, they won the European Championships, beating Turkey in the final. 21 - 12 the final result, which awarded the boys coached by Giuliano Bufacchi, Mauro Dessì and Francesca D'Erasmo.

The Azzurri had brought up the tricolor on three other occasions, with victories at the 2017 European Championship and the 2018 and 2019 World Championships. October 10 is the National Day of People with Down Syndrome and the occasion could not have been honored better by our eight basketball players: Chiara Vingione and Fabio Tomao, Alessandro Greco, Alex Cesca and Andrea Rebichini, Alessandro Ciceri, Antonello Spiga and Davide Paulis.

"In 2021 Italy's national teams win in any sport, we didn't want to be outdone," said Coach Bufacchi proudly.

The basketball event is more generally part of the first edition of the SUDS Open Euro TriGames, a multidisciplinary event reserved for athletes with Down syndrome: in total, the Italian team collected 105 medals, 53 of which were gold.