New venture for Martina Caironi at the Paralympic Athletics World Championships in Paris. After the silver in the 100m (with the all-blue podium thanks to the gold of Ambra Sabatini and the bronze of Monica Contrafatto), the blue won the gold in the long T63.

Thanks to her, today the Italian flag flies for the seventh time in the Parisian world championship, with the eighth blue qualifying card for the 2024 Paralympics . For the world record holder, this is the third world title after London 2017 and Lyon 2013 in the specialty that dominates with the winning measure of 5.18, championship record.

«I won the anthem, they will give me that coveted medal, the gold», was the comment at the end of the race, «it was a difficult race, the wind was changing. Between the race the day before yesterday, the shock of the Charlies, going back to a world championship I've been missing since 2017, I felt something powerful. It's beautiful because sport is capable of giving tears, joys and a crazy competitive trance".

(Unioneonline)

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