Italy silver in team coaching – Corriere.it

Another medal for Italy at the World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka, the fifth of the expedition. In team coaching, the Azzurri won silver, behind Spain and ahead of the United States. Italy (Linda Cerruti, Francesca Zunino, Lucrezia Ruggiero, Sofia Mastroianni, Enrica Piccoli, Isotta Sportelli, Marta Iacoacci and Giulia Paint) finished with the score 274.5155 which is worth the second step of the podium behind Spain, gold with 281.6893 . The podium completed by the USA, bronze with 273.7396.

This is a new exercise that we started this year with Russian choreographers who came to help us. We started working on the basis and with last year’s rules and as the regulation was updated we modified and adapted it – explains Enrica Piccoli, captain and spokesperson for the Azzurri -. So there have been changes throughout the year, even from the European Games to the World Championships, and also in the last ten days we have increased the difficulties and slightly changed the coverage of the pool. Definitely much more difficult, I think it’s the third or fourth most difficult of the World Championship. the first time without penalty, we are very happy and satisfied, we could feel it even from the water. Beautiful emotion.

Cerruti dedicates the medal to Minisini, who was absent in Japan due to injury: As a veteran I can say that we have grown a lot. This World Cup was used to understand the preparation and a starting point to arrive more ready for the next one in Doha in February. This is a unique, magical moment of a team that gets stronger, united, cohesive and focused on the same goal and moments like these unite us even more. a medal for Giorgio Minisini who we miss so much: his advice has been of great use to us.