Quartu, life and gloves of Annetta Serra: at 96 years old she is still in the ring

He reached his last goal a few weeks ago: «They renewed my driving licence. But I had no doubts. Besides, why shouldn't they have passed me? I can see well, my hands don't shake. In fact, the doctor told me "you must hope that I reach your age as fit as you".

Annetta Serra is 96 years old, from Quarto and is the granny of records. Not only does she drive without glasses, but she is the oldest member of the Italian Boxing Federation. In the sense that even today at his venerable age, he punches with gloves.

She does it at the Ferrini gym in Quartu in the boxing and personal defense course organized by the University of the Third Age and, needless to say, she has become everyone's favorite, a real mascot.

Annetta's story, complete, in Giorgia Daga's article on L'Unione Sarda on newsstands and in the digital edition