European figure skating championships, historic double for Italy

Historic blue double in the artistic pairs of figure skating at the European Championships in Espoo, Finland. Sara Conti and Niccolo Macii tonight on the ice of the ‘Espoo Metro Areena’ they won the continental title with 195.13 points ahead of their compatriots Rebecca Ghilardi-Filippo Ambrosini (186.96). Bronze to the German tandem composed by Annika Hocke-Robert Kunkel (184.26). Inserted since 1930 in the European event, Italy had obtained only one medal in pairs, the bronze of Stefania Berton-Ondrej Hotarek in 2013 in Zagreb.

The race

Accounts (born in 2000, born in Alzano Lombardo) e Macii (Milanese, born in 1995), partner also in life and seventh in the last edition of the continental championship, took to the ice last after first place in the short to the notes of a medley taken from the soundtrack of “Nuovo Cinema Paradiso” composed by Ennio Morricone. A crescendo up to 124.68 (60.78, 63.90) for a total of 195.13, a new personal best. Test of character for Rebecca Ghilardi (from Seriate, born in 1999) and Filippo Ambrosini (Asiago, 29 years old) for silver on the notes of Queen after a great comeback from fifth place: 127.48 in the free (65.02, 62.46) for a total of 186.96. Furthermore, even the lowest step of the podium speaks Italian, as the Germans Annika Hocke-Robert Kunkel, third with 117.18 (56.20, 61.98) for 184.26, are trained at the IceLab in Bergamo, the same club Ariadne Fontana.