Amazing bronze for Michael Balzana and Filippo Battistoni at the Grand Prix in Turin

A great performance, that of Michael Balzana: the Umbrian athlete was able to handle the competition and to impose his techniques against the opponents, with five matches won before a few seconds before the end; Micheal was defeated just one time by the Neapolitan athlete Di Capua, who finished in second place of the ranking after the Turin athlete Satin. The bronze medial won by Filippo Battistoni raises the association of Spello in third position in the national ranking, consolidating its position. Binucci Alessandro reached the 7th place, who won three matches out of five; a good 13th place for Michele Damiani, who won two matches out of three. Thanks to this result, Alessandro achieved the 4th place in the national ranking , a great result. Now all are waiting for the final of the Italian absolutes Championship scheduled on Saturday, December 12th in Turin and for the debut of Matteo Murasecco in the national context on Saturday, December 5th in Ostia during the finals of the Italian newcomers . A great performance also for the young athletes of the association of Spello that, at the 6th edition of the Trophy "The Poets of Judo",held Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th have collected a lot of medals: gold for JorgeMosquera Ruiz, Benedetta Baroni and Claudia Napoletano, silver for Gloria Giacomucci and Carlo Kallcishta and bronze for Alessio Cecera. It is to mention, also, the performance of Tiziano Meniconi, Eduard Brahas, GiacomoBenedetti, Fabio Napolitano,Luca Giulietti, Patryk Stojecki, Edward Gigliotti, Troffa Carolina, Agnese Ciccotti, Matteo Pambianco, Samuele Bagaglia, Michele Sciabola and Flavio Cimarelli.

Competition to forget the one held in Turin on Sunday, October 5

The Grand Prix has seen the total absenceof the athletes of Spello at the top of the rankings, which have collected only a few sporadic victories. Michele Damiani in 90 kg - the best in the race - managed to stand up to high-level athletes, but in the fourth round he lost in a really prohibitive category, where the athlete of the Blue Flames, Matteo Celesti scored a third place. Nothing to be done, however, for Balzana, Fiorucci, Binucci, Giulietti, Stojecki and Battistoni, still far away from an acceptable form that will allow these talented and strong judokas to fit into the top of the ranking list.