Paris, 28 July 2024 – On the Olympic waters of Vaires-sur-Marne, the Second day of preliminaries at the Paris Games for the Italian rowing teamwhich places the men’s lightweight doubles team in the semi-finals Gabriel Soares e Stefano Oppoand the Senior Women’s Doubles of Stefania Gobbi and Clara Guerra.
Soares and Oppo advance to next round after a hard-fought heatin which the Czech Republic tails Italy for 1500 meters, only to then have to give way to the two Italians, who in the last fraction show all their superiority, passing the round with the third qualifying time among all 16 nations in the race (Switzerland 6.24.88, Spain 6.28.92, Italy 6.29.17). Sharp also for Gobbi and Guerra, who earn access to the semifinal thanks to the third place in the recovery obtained behind Holland and Norway, with the latter preceding the Italians at the finish line by just two hundredths of a second.
The men’s coxless pair will instead play the repechage matches John Codato and David Cominiand the men’s coxless four of Nicholas Kohl, Giuseppe Vicino, Giovanni Abagnale and Matteo Lodo, respectively fourth and fifth classified in their debut heats in this edition of the Olympic Games. The five-ring journey of the Senior Men’s Doubles by Matteo Sartori and Nicolò Caruccifourth in the repechage and who in fact close this Olympics in thirteenth place.
Tomorrow the third day of Olympic competitions will see the Italremo will take to the water in the last two specialties that have yet to debut in Paris 2024, the men’s eight and the women’s eight – the latter protagonist of a historic first time for Italy at the Olympics – who will be engaged in their respective heats at 11.50 and 12.10. The qualifications of the flagships for Italy will be anticipated, at 10.20, by the recovery of the men’s coxless pair.
