Since 2004, a skater from Piacenza has not won a medal at the World Championships.
Heir to the Olympics Ippolito Sanfratello was Adrian Gumanita the best athlete and coach Piazza Skaters ASD at the height of which exceptional season Inline LandingLast June, who started as the Italian champion in time trial, won a great silver medal in the same competition.World Skate Games It was held in Tortoreto on September 6-22.
In fact, Adrian, who grew up as an athlete in Piacenza, where he lived from an early age, while still waiting for the completion of the documents for the transition to sports citizenship, Tortoreto defended the colors of the Romanian national team at the World Cup.
In his favorite event, the individual time trial, Adrian gave it his all, only to succumb to the multiple Tuscan champion on the final descent. Renato Pennuti. After a brilliant qualifying stage in which Adrian exchanged the first place in two races with the very strong Colombian Mejia, everything was decided in the final: due to a worse qualifying time, the most accredited athlete of the Italian national team competed before Pennuti Gumanita. and Mejia, record a very high time.
Gumanita and Mejia had to risk everything to try to do better than Pennuti’s performance. Despite a good performance, Adrian was 41 percent behind Pennuti at the finish line, while Mejia, determined to push his rivals off the podium, started very fast and recorded the best split times: but, reaching the most demanding corner of the track, the Colombian approached the entrance too quickly and crashed disastrously. So the gold medal went to Renato Pennuti, while our own Adrian Gumanita won a magnificent silver medal; Quiroga, another Colombian, was placed at the bottom of the podium.
While Adrian Piacenza won a historic silver medal in figure skating, we can’t help but celebrate the brilliant performance of another standard bearer of Piacenza Skaters in the same competition. Samuele Paradasi16th place finisher: Given that Samuele is still a junior athlete and there is only one category at the world championships, this result has special meaning given that he is the best of the juniors, despite having to compete with older athletes. in ratings.
Her 16th place finish in the women’s race was equally impressive Sylvia DelboAble to improve from 20th place heat after heat with a noticeable crescendo thanks to a chronometric improvement of more than 10 seconds.
Three Piace Skaters qualified for the next event thanks to their excellent performances in the time trial. “Mass Race”a very spectacular contest characterized by a lot of “physical contact”.
They were the first on the track Samuele Paradasi e Sylvia Delbo both advanced to the 1/4 finals.
To highlight the performance of Samuele, who reached the only 1/4 final and surrendered only to the very strong Colombians Quiroga and Barrera, the latter is the second overall result: with this excellent performance, unexpected even by the technical staff. Paradasi, who was well-liked by the skaters, also improved his place in the time trial, taking a commendable 10th place.
Good performance too Adrian Gumanita after prevailing in both the round of 16 and the quarter-final, he found his usual opponent Renato Pennutini in the semi-finals; this time, unfortunately, Pennuti’s experience and fluidity prevailed. Although he did not reach the finals, Gumanita, who took the 5th place in the general classification, still took another high-level place.
With these brilliant results, a historic season has ended for Piace Skaters, who proved to be one of the reference companies in the Inline Downhill panorama not only in Italy but also in the world.
At the end of the exciting participation in the world championships, the boys from Piacenza, who were not satisfied with their rightly achieved achievements, always looking ahead, commented on their performance as follows: “We are very satisfied with our races and great experience. won at the World Skate Games; Now we have to plan how to develop to be ready for next season’s events.”