Gymnastics: Butterflies win bronze mixed specialty

After graduating yesterday vice continental champion in All Around, the Italian National Team also won the bronze medal in the final of the mixed exercise with three circles and four clubs of the 37th European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championship. At the Palace of Culture and Sports in Varna, Bulgaria, the Air Force airmen Alessia Maurelli, Martina Centofanti, Martina Santandrea, Agnese Duranti and Daniela Mogurean (Ardor Padova) - under the gaze of the Technical Director Emanuela Maccarani and the coach Olga Tishina - they opened the day of finals as usual "Ninja" with the five balls, on the composition of Maxime Rodriguez, obtaining the score of 44.100 and fifth place in the specialty, whose title went to Bulgaria, followed by Russia and Israel. Then they returned to the platform,more charged than ever to grab another medal and they succeeded with the mixed exercise, interpreting "Tree of life suite" by Roberto Cacciapaglia, evaluated by the jury 43.375. A score that is worth the third step of the podium, in a Final Eight dominated by Israel and with the hosts on the place of honor. The umpteenth success of the Blue Butterflies that brings the medals in the gold register of the European Championships to 21. From Italy the congratulations of the president of Federgistici Gherardo Tecchi arrived and in Bulgaria the whole delegation broke out in new celebrations, led by the vice president Rosario Pitton and completed by the team physiotherapist Simone Gallo, by the two individualists Sofia Raffaeli and Alexandra Agiurgiuculese,from their techniques Julieta Cantaluppi and Spela Dragas, from the race officials Emanuela Agnolucci and Maria Isabella Zunino Reggio, from the other physiotherapist Alessandro Calcinaro and from the federal doctor Maria Conforti.