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Italy has won the medal table at the 2022 World Championships in rhythmic gymnastics. This is a historic first for the Bel Paese, which was able to dominate the rainbow event. Our national team returns home with 6 golds (out of the nine available), 1 silver and 2 bronzes. Before the end of the event, in fact, Italy won another gold. Taking the firs...

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From dream to reality, Sofia Raffaeli does not stop any longer at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Bulgaria. After two golds won on the ball and hoop, the 18-year-old Italian also became world champion in the ribbon exercise and all-around, while on the clubs she won the bronze medal. "I dedicate this world title to Marche, my land, a...

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Historic double gold for Italy at the Armeec Arena in Sofia, Bulgaria, where Sofia Raffaeli became world champion in the hoop and ball specialties during the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships. The 18-year-old from Chiaravalle (Marche, Italy), dubbed "Atomic Ant," triumphed in the hoop specialty with an explosive exercise, beating Bulgarian gy...

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A dream Sunday for Italian sports: first Sofia Raffaeli, then Matteo Berrettini, then Nicolò Martinenghi and Rossella Gregorio. From gymnastics to tennis, swimming to fencing, it's great Italy. Sofia Raffaeli never ceases to amaze and is an absolute star in Israel. The Italian begins by winning the gold medal in hoop with 36 net points at the Europ...

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All over the world there are famous sports techniques invented by some athletes, such as the high jump with dorsal overrun invented by the Portland (OR) athlete Richard Douglas "Dick" Fosbury. Italians, always recognized as a people of geniuses, thanks to the countless inventions of every kind that they have realized during the centuries, have left...

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2021 is the year of Italian sport. Since July, with the victory of the European Soccer Championships, passing through the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo and the successes of the national men's and women's volleyball, polo, American football and cycling teams, it seems that the azzurri and azzurre known only how to win. And one month from the...

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Nicola Bartolini won the gold medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, free body specialty. In Kytakyushu, Japan, the 25-year-old from Quartu Sant'Elena won by performing an exercise with very few flaws that earned him the remarkable score of 14,800. The last time an Italian athlete won a gold medal at the World Gymnastics Championship...

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The victory of the European Football Championship in July was only the beginning of a magical Italian summer. A summer that gave endless emotions to the Italians, demonstrating to the entire world how strong is this land that for millennia has amazed the world with its epic feats in art, architecture, engineering, literature and sport. At the Tokyo...

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