Thirteenth day of competitions at Olympic Games from Tokyo. Calciomercato.com tells in real time all the main updates of today.
Karate, kumite -75 kg: Luigi Busà will play for the gold medal! European champion Stanislav Horuna (Ukraine) beaten 3-0 in the semifinal, later the final with Azerbaijani Rafael Aghayev who beat Hungarian Karoly Gabo Harspataki 6-0 in the other semifinal.
Athletics: Italian record in the 4×400 for Sibilio, Re, Aceti, scotti, who finish fourth in their battery, but are rescued in the final.
Karate, kumite -75 kg: Busà flies to the semifinals, the access to the final for gold will be played against the European champion Stanislav Horuna (Ukraine), at 13.25 Italian time.
Modern women’s pentathlon: gold in English French, silver in Lithuanian Asadauskaite and bronze in Hungarian Kovacs. Thirteenth and fifteenth place for the Italians Alice Sotero and Elena Micheli.
Karate, kumite -75 kg: Luigi Busà is in the semifinals, at least a sure bronze! In the last match against his long-time rival Rafael Aghayev, already qualified, the Sicilian wins by passing the group from first and is certain to medal. It will be the 37th blue at the Tokyo Games, an absolute record for Italy.
Men’s free wrestling -74 kg: no bronze for Chamizo, who loses 5-0 against the American Dake.
Men’s free wrestling -74 kg: the final for the bronze begins, the blue Frank Chamizo challenges the American Kyle Douglas Dake.
Men’s water polo: USA beats Italy 7-6 in the race for 5th-8th place, Settebello will play for 7th place with Montenegro, defeated by Croatia 12-10.
Lotta: Canadian Jordan Seen will be the opponent of the blue Conyedo in tomorrow’s repechage for the bronze in the wrestling -97 kg.
Rhythmic gymnastics: Milena Baldassarri closes in sixth partial place and wins the final tomorrow. Out instead Alexandra Agiurgiuculese.
Women’s Track Cycling (Madison): Elisa Balsamo and Letizia Paternoster finish in eighth place. Gold to the British couple Kenny / Archibald, silver to Denmark and bronze to Russia who compete as Roc.
Women’s 20 km walk: Antonella Palmisano amazing, it’s gold! On his 30th birthday, the Apulian athlete gives himself the Olympic title in 1h29’12 “, in front of the Colombian Arenas and the Chinese Liu. It is the eighth gold medal for Italy! The medal table thus rises to 36 in total (8 golds, 10 silvers and 18 bronzes), equaling the records of Roma 1960 e Los Angeles 1932.
Women’s 20 km walk: at the 18th km Antonella Palmisano alone in the lead ahead of the Colombian Arenas and the Brazilian Sena.
Women’s 20 km walk: after 16 km Antonella Palmisano is still in the leading group, now reduced to six athletes.
Women’s 20 km walk: Palmisano remains in the leading group halfway through the race.
Women’s Track Cycling (Madison): it’s up to Letizia Paternoster and Elisa Balsamo.
Women’s 20 km walk: Eleonora Giorgi stops after 6 km, while Antonella Palmisano leads the group.
Covid: the organizers of the Olympics have registered 29 new cases related to the Games, the total account of infections rises to 382.
Rhythmic gymnastics: now in the game the Italian Alexandra Agiurgiuculese. Baldassarri 6th in the middle of the race.
Weather forecast: a tropical storm could hit the Tokyo area starting from the night between Saturday and Sunday, on the occasion of the last day of the Games. Low intensity rains expected, but possible gusts of wind at 65 km / h.
Lotta: the blue Abraham de Jesus Conyedo, a naturalized Cuban, is defeated in the quarterfinals by the American Snyder (6-0) and tomorrow will have to play the repechage match against the loser of the semifinal between the Turkish Karadeniz and the American Snyder. If successful, Conyedo would then play for bronze.
Women’s beach volleyball: gold to the US pair Ross / Klineman, 2-0 in the final to the Australian Artacho of Solar / Clancy. Bronze went to the Swiss Verge-Depre / Heidrich, who overtook the Latvian Graudina / Kravcenoka.
Women’s volleyball: doping scandal for semi-finalist Brazil, which loses the spiker Tandara for potential violation of the anti-doping regulation. As confirmed by the Brazilian Olympic Committee, positive a test done before the Olympics, the player is excluded for the last two games in Tokyo and will return to Brazil after the disqualification.
Karate, kata maschile: Mattia Busato does not pass the turn, who remains out of the top three.
Men’s 50 km walk: the Polish Tomala wins, the German Hilbert second and the Canadian Dunfee third. The Italian Agrusti 23rd with 11 ‘delay, Caporaso and De Luca withdrawn. The 43-year-old Frenchman Diniz also retired, in his last race and world record holder (3h32’33 “).
Rich program on this Friday. It starts from the men’s 50 km walk, with Agrusti, Caporaso and Deluca in the running. Then it’s up to karate, men’s kata with Busato, and women’s individual all-around rhythmic gymnastics with Agiurgiuculese and Baldassarri. Conyedo in the men’s wrestling -97 kg, Palmisano-Giorgi-Trapletti in the women’s 20 km walk. Busà in karate kumite -75 kg. At 10.15 am Paternoster and Balsamo competing in women’s track cycling. Headlights focused at 12.30 on the final for the bronze in the men’s wrestling -74 kg, with Frank Chamizo, and at 15.50 Jacobs and Tortu return to the track in the final of the men’s 4x100m.
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