Paris: Tita-Banti wins gold in sailing. Incredible comeback for silver in canoeing

Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti do not disappoint and, like three years ago in Tokyo, win the Olympic gold in the Nacra 17 class. The 32-year-old financier from Rovereto and the Roman born in 1987 arrived at the medal race already certain of getting on the podium with 27 points in 12 races (half of which won) and a significant advantage over their pursuers: 14 points over the Argentines Mateo Majdalani and Eugenia Bosco, 20 over the two crews in third place, the British Gimson-Burnet and the New Zealanders Wilkinson-Dawson. With the numbers in hand, seventh place was enough for the gold but the Italian pair – in their palmares also 4 world titles, the last of which last May in France, in La Grande Motte – push themselves further and cross the finish line in second place. For Italy it is the tenth gold in the French Olympics, equaling the result of Tokyo three years ago.

A few dozen minutes later, Italy won the silver medal in the C2 500 canoe sprint. Gabriele Casadei and Carlo Tacchini finished behind China and ahead of Spain. Incredible silver for Italy in canoeing at the Paris Games. Gabriele Casadei and Carlo Tacchini won it in the C2 500: seventh at half-time, with a sensational comeback in the second 250 meters they went on to take second place in 1’41″08, beating the Spaniards Joan Antoni Moreno and Diego Dominguez, bronze (1’41″18), and the Russians Zakhar Petrov and Alexey Korovashkov (1’41″27), who remained off the podium. The gold went to the Chinese crew formed by Liu Hao and Ji Bowen, who dominated the final in 1’39″48.