Chiara Pellacani and Matteo Santoro are silver medalists in the synchro 3 meters of dives, at the World Championships in progress in Budapest.
The Italian couple closed the final with a score of 293.55, less than the 324.15 of the Chinese couple, made up of Shan Lin and Zifeng Zhu, who won gold.
"On her podium I felt like crying, then I looked at Chiara, who for me is like a sister, and she made me cry even more".
Thus, after the award ceremony and from the microphones of RaiSport, the 15-year-old Roman Matteo Santoro, who today has become the youngest diver in the history of this sport in Italy, to have won a medal at the World Championships, specifically silver in the synchronized competition from the 3-meter springboard, paired with the 19-year-old Chiara Pellecani, also from Rome, with whom she has been competing as a couple "for about three years".
"I expected the medal - admits the very young blue -, because you always dream, but then until the last moment, until I had it around my neck, I didn't believe it. I couldn't be happier than that, but I stay with our feet on the ground: if we start to fly, it's not good ".
"Now I rest - he concludes -, but then I will resume training because during the summer there will be many important matches".
Starting with the European Championships in Rome (11-21 August) and that gold to win at home, and together with Chiara.
