A draw in men's water polo and a defeat in women's volleyball.
The balance of the blue teams is not the best, which in any case were already qualified for the quarterfinals, engaged in the Italian night for the last day of the elimination rounds of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. On the Japanese night, however, Italy celebrated at Athletes village, with choirs, hugs and applause for Marcell Jacobs and Gianmarco Tamberi, yesterday gold medal in the 100 meters and high jump.
From the Olympic stadium of the Japanese capital, even in the last hours other positive news has arrived for the expedition of Italian athletics which, however the last six days of the Games will go, will remain in the history of blue sport. In the women's 1500s, with the fourth place in her battery (in 4'05''41) Gaia Sabbatini in fact won the qualification for the semifinal. Eliminated, however, Federica Del Buono who in any case, with 4'07''70 recorded her best time since 2014. And there are also two Italians, three of the 24 qualified for the semi-finals of the women's 200 meters: they are Dalia Kaddari and Gloria Hooper , the first qualified directly with the third place in her battery in 23''26, the second, fourth, was rescued thanks to a time of 23''16. With 7.99 meters,Filippo Randazzo finished the long jump final in eighth place. The gold medal was won by the Greek Miltiadis Tentoglou with 8.41. Same measure of the Cuban Juan Miguel Echevarria who, however, is silver for the second measure lower than that of the Greek (8.09 against 8.15). In this case, unlike what happened yesterday with Tamberi and Barshim, there could not have been an agreement for a tie. Bronze to another Cuban, Maykel Masso, with 8.21.there could not have been an agreement for the ex aequo. Bronze to another Cuban, Maykel Masso, with 8.21.there could not have been an agreement for the ex aequo. Bronze to another Cuban, Maykel Masso, with 8.21.
In men's waterpolo, Settebello drew 5-5 with Hungary: the team coached by Sandro Campagna - scored with Figlioli (2), Di Fulvio, Echenique and Aicardi - closed the group with three wins and two draws and in the next few hours will know the opponent of the quarter-finals. Same situation for the women's volleyball team, in the second consecutive defeat after the first three victories: Paola Egonu and her teammates were overcome in the tiebreak by the USA (21-25, 25-16, 25-27, 25-16, 15-12 the partial).
In the canoe sprint, Samuele Burgo (k1 1000 mt men) and Francesca Genzo (k2 200 mt women) obtained the qualification for the semifinals.
