Impresa Caironi, world gold in the long run for the Paralympic athlete

New venture for Martina Caironi at the Paralympic Athletics World Championships in Paris. After the silver in the 100m (with the all-blue podium thanks to the gold of Ambra Sabatini and the bronze of Monica Contrafatto), the blue won the gold in the long T63.

Thanks to her, today the tricolor flies for the seventh time in the Parisian world championship, with the eighth blue qualifying card for the 2024 Paralympics. For the world record holder, this is the third world title after London 2017 and Lyon 2013 in the specialty that dominates with the winning measure of 5.18, championship record.

“I won the anthem, they will give me that coveted medal, gold”: this is how Martina Caironi commented on the victory at the Paris World Cup in the long run.

«It was a difficult race, the wind was changing. Between the race the day before yesterday, the shock of the Charlies, going back to a world championship that I’ve been missing since 2017, I felt something powerful. It’s beautiful because sport is capable of giving tears, joys and a crazy competitive trans».

In a race characterized by various interruptions to fix the take-off board, the yellow flame bearer does not lose concentration and celebrates with the victory the lucky platform that had already given her the world record last year (5.46).

«In the first two jumps I almost got scared even though I knew I was worth a lot. 5.18 gave me confidence but you never know what your opponents can do, so I’ve always tried to improve my performance.

There was a lot of sacrifice to get here, you only see these moments of the match but behind it there are weeks and weeks, mornings and mornings of work with my coach who was finally able to smile. I gave him my bib and he made the sign of the cross (laughs).

Behind it there are also the prosthesis technicians who do an important job, in the end there could be something wrong and they are here. Year after year they improve to make us improve».

And this is his message at the end of the World Cup: «After the silver medal in sprint, I reflected on the fact that society pushes us so much to excel and this is sport. I train to win, but calm down everyone, you have to watch yourself even from the outside. I worked my ass off to be here. That’s how it went today and luckily I managed to keep a cool head after the null and the first poor jump. We have to stay on track.”

The Swiss Kratter, silver with 4.91, can do nothing, and not even the Australian historical rival T61 Vanessa Low who finishes with the bronze (4.90).