Absolute Silver for the athlete of Foligno Giacomo Gramaccioni

A great silver for Giacomo Gramaccioni in the Italian Absolutes of wrestling. On Saturday, December 5th, in the Palaruffini of Turin, gathered the strongest wrestlers of Italy to compete for the most coveted title. Even the strong team of Spello showed up with a fierce and competitive team: Michael Balzana, who last year won a bronze medal in the 60 kg. category, has paid the price of the upgrade of category with this first experience in the 65 kg. It hasn’t gone as smoothly as hoped: Michael was eliminated in the first round against the athlete who then reached the lowest step of the podium. Nothing to do for Giacomo Bartoni and Edoardo Paccamonti, who was expected to reach a placement of relief but unfortunately was eliminated in the first round. At this point, Giacomo Gramaccioni, several times medallist in the Italian championships class and in the Italian Cup, gained a great number of victories against athletes of great experience; in the first meeting he beat one of the title contenders, the athlete of Palermo Campi, then 3rd classified. Only in the final he surrendered against the athlete of Livorno Simone Iannatoni, still fighting with great tenacity, even if the the gap between the two athletes is still years away. Thanks to Giacomo’s performance, the team of Spello came in eleventh position in the national rankings, a fully respectable result. Words of praised for the success of Giacomo were spent by the technical staff of the association of brothers Famà, composed by the technicians Alvaro Fontanella, Paolo Iannetti, Jorge Ruiz Mosquera, who always follow these guys with great passion and enthusiasm.

A great closing for Michele Damiani, seventh place in final ranking of the Italian Absolutes

A competition to remember for Michele Damiani, took place at the indoor stadium of Asti, on Saturday, November 29th and not only for the four matches won, but above all for having given him the bronze medal in the encounter against the Florentine Boni, with whom he had already won the Grand Prix of Turin . Superb victory at the fifth round against the Chierici of Arezzo, which made us hope well for a place on the podium: it did not happen, but Michele has shown its full potential. A fantastic start for Alessandro Binucci who beated during the first match the tough Rubini of Parma, but in the second round an unrecognizable Alessandro has been defeated by an athlete from Turin, against whom he had already won in the past. Nothing to be done, however, for Fillippo Battistoni and Giacomo Gramaccioni: a brief appearance on the tatami puts an end to any ambitions of the two athletes, certainly good ... but the future could give something of important, if only they believed more in their abilities.

Binucci and Battistoni in preparation for the Absolutes in Turin by brothers Bruyere

A period of intense training to focus and refine some race situations before the piedmontese event of Asti, where on November 29th will be held the most prestigious event of the entire agonistic season.

The team of Spello reaches the summit of the club rankings at the most prestigious national competit

Amazing performance from the wrestlers of Spello Paolo Iannetti and Michael Balzana (both got on the lowest rung of the podium) at the Absolute Italian Freestyle competition that took place Saturday, March 8 at the Palatennistavolo of Terni. While for Iannetti the medal was easily predictable, for Balzana it was a great surprise. For Paolo, the bronze medal represented the crowning of a career at high level, which began several years ago under the careful and meticulous guidance of Master Lupi, and ended in the achievement of the age limit, the fateful 35 years: "I have given so much but I have also received a lot from this sport, I will miss a lot the excitement to fight in an absolute competition, even if it is my intention to conclude the competitive spirit in November with the Italian Cup in Perugia, the city where I grew up. I thank all those who supported and have been close to me in this latest adventure, especially my friends and teammates, Jorge and Edoardo, and the brothers Giulio and Giuseppe who always believed in me". While Iannetti concluded a great experience, the young Michael moves towards a meteoric climb of the Italian summits. In the last two months he only trained Greco-roman Wrestling, abandoning temporarily his passion, judo. The baton passes into the hands of the young Balzana, category 61 kg, who said: "I owe everything to my technical Paolo Iannetti, who had to endure my whims, and who followed me and encouraged me to believe in my ability. A great venture achieved thanks to the Master Alvaro Fontanella, technician of my club and Regional Technical Commissioner, Jonathan Molfino and the Regional Vice President, Luciano Pierini: without them I would not have ever made it". But the whole team of Spello shines, thanks to the seventh place of Alfonso Argenio and the good positionings of Michele Damiani, Giacomo Gramaccioni, Elia Angelucci and Jacopo Grandolini.