Errigo and Tamberi, who’re Italy’s flag bearers on the Olympics

They are going to be Gianmarco Tamberi e Arianna Rigo i flag bearer of Italy on the Opening Ceremony from the Paris Olympics 2024Athletics and fencing may have the respect of being represented by their high athletes on Friday 24 July at 7:30 p.m.

Who’s Gianmarco Tamberi?

Class to spare and a listing of absolute champions. Gianmarco Tooriwho turned 32 on June 1, will probably be one in all Italy’s two flag bearers on the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics. A local of Civitanova Marche, he grew to become Olympic champion on the Tokyo 2020 Video games (held in 2021) on a par with Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim and world champion in Budapest 2023.

Tamberi’s titles and information

Holder of the nationwide file within the specialty each outside (2.39) and indoors (2.38), he additionally boasts an indoor world title in his profession (Portland 2016), two European outside golds (Amsterdam 2016 and Munich 2022) and one indoor (Glasgow 2019), in addition to 9 Italian absolute titles between outside and indoors. He’s the second Italian ever, after Alberto Cova, to have received the Olympic, world and European gold medal throughout his profession.

Tamberi’s ardour for basketball

Nicknamed Half-shave (half-beard) or Gimbois the son of former excessive jumper and Italian file holder Marco Tamberi, his long-time coach (now his coach is Giulio Ciotti), and brother of Gianluca, a promising Italian file holder in javelin throw. Married to Chiara Bontempi, he performed basketball with Stamura Ancona till he was sixteen. A sport he continues to like, having been referred to as twice to the Movie star Sport of the NBA All Star Sport. In Paris, the Italian may have his second expertise within the 5 circles: in 2016, whereas attempting to leap the two.41m mark within the Monaco leg of the Diamond League, he injured his ankle and was compelled to skip the Rio Video games.

Who’s Arianna Errigo?

The foil fencer too Arianna Rigo is getting ready for her fourth Olympics. Twelve years in the past, the Monza native who lives in Frascati received silver within the particular person, beating Vezzali and dropping solely to Di Francisca. In Rio she had a troublesome version, in Tokyo she returned to the rostrum with the workforce, bronze. She gave one of the lovely photos of Italian sport final summer season, successful the workforce gold and the person silver on the World Championships in Milan with the twins Mirea and Stefano, born a number of weeks earlier, on the platform. “Flag bearer of Paris 2024 along with Gianmarco Tamberi! My coronary heart is bursting with pleasure! Are you aware when you do not imagine it even after they’ve informed you? Thanks Giovanni and thanks to the complete Coni board for believing in me. Gimbo, it is going to be an honor to parade alongside you!” Errigo’s ideas have been entrusted to social media. He beat the competitors of Antonella Palmisano, gold within the march in Tokyo however excluded from Tamberi’s selection, and the sailor Caterina Banti: “Arianna is the testimony of how a girl is usually a protagonist in sport not with one little one, however with two” underlined Malagò. Twelve years after Valentina Vezzali in London, there will probably be one other mom foil fencer to open the parade of Italy.

Why Sinner just isn’t a regular bearer

Errigo and Tamberi have been chosen primarily based on standards which were in vogue for a while at CONI, which have excluded for instance Jannik Sinner who has not but participated within the Video games. A victory on the Olympics was wanted, a profession constructed over a couple of version. For that reason, Jessica Rossi, gold in entice in London 2012, Elia Viviani, who had received in observe biking in Rio, and never Paola Egonu, invoked by part of the sports activities world (she however carried the Olympic flag within the empty Tokyo stadium within the Covid period), paraded in Japan.