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as usual, quite a curious way to open the season...straight with a major title up for grabs for what concerns the team, not a good championship: quite a good number of boats qualified to the finals, but no individual medals in particular, disappointing outing for the 2024 European and Olymnpic Champion in the men's K1, Giovanni De Gennaro, who paid a high prize to a mistake in the semifinal race and couldn't even make the final...at the same time, Xabier Ferrazzi was the closest to win a medal among the Italians (he finished in 4th place, always in the men's K1) it will be a very tough competition between him and De Gennaro to earn the Olympic spot in 3 years time p.s. @hckošice I'm really surprised to see that both the and TV networks completely ignored this event (I know that the Hockey Worlds are on, but this isn't an excusation...at least, it wasn't in the past)

a couple of days ago, the Team titles went to (women's K1 and women's C1), (men's K1) and (men's C1)

2025 Slalom Canoeing European Championships ( Vaires sur Marne) women's K1 Gold: Ricarda Funk Silver: Gabriela Satkova Bronze: Zuzana Pankova men's K1 Gold: Jiri Prskavec Silver: Titouan Castryck Bronze: Martin Srabotnik women's C1 Gold: Monica Doria Silver: Laurene Rosin Bronze: Doriane Delassus men's C1 Gold: Miquel Trave Silver: Nicolas Gestin Bronze: Ziga Lin Hocevar Full Results https://siwidata.com/canoelive/#/live/eca/2547

Mixed 470 Open European Championships 2025 ( Split) Gold: Jordi Xammar Hernandez & Marta Cardona Alcàntara Silver: Martin Wrigley & Bettine Harris Bronze: Matisse Pacaud & Lucie De Gennes Full Results & Rankings https://2025europeans.470.org/en/default/races/race-resultsall

2025 ILCA 6 & 7 World Championships ( Qingdao) women's ILCA 6 Gold: Louise Cervera Silver: Agata Barwinska Bronze: Eve McMahon Full Results & Rankings https://2025ilcaolympic.ilca-worlds.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2025/05/ILCA-6W-2025-CHN-Results.html men's ILCA 7 Gold: Willem Wiersema Silver: Pavlos Kontides Bronze: Zac Littlewood Full Results & Rankings https://2025ilcaolympic.ilca-worlds.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2025/05/ILCA-7M-2025-CHN-Results.html Unlucky championship...the competition has been badly influenced by the awful weather conditions that allowed the sailors to complete less than half the program, with both titles awarded after a bare minimum of 5 (men) and 6 (women) races only

and completed the blowout 6-0, 6-1 in only 59 minutes that was really impressive... maybe they shouldn't have made him so angry

this is huge! the 38th America's Cup will be held in Italy, in Naples (in the Gulf's area between Castel Dell'Ovo and Posillipo) in the Spring / Summer 2027 (the exact dates will be announced later) most likely, it's gonna be the most spectacular backdrop ever for the historical regatta https://www.oasport.it/2025/05/la-coppa-america-di-vela-sara-a-napoli-evento-epocale-lannuncio-dei-neozelandesi-e-lintervento-diretto-del-governo/

in the end we still managed to win the most medals of all and to finish 2nd in the overall medal table, but the trick is that we won mainly kata and team medals, which are difinitely a lot less significant than the individual kumite's (only exception, the team kumite, which is always very prestigious) so, we can't be really satisfied with the final results of this championship (and we also did worse than last year, which is not a good sign, given that in the past copuple of years we're in descending route)

2025 Karate 1 European Championships ( Yerevan) Medallists Recap (Part III) Women's Team Kata Gold: Spain Silver: Portugal Bronze #1: Italy Bronze #2: France Men's Team Kata Gold: Spain Silver: Italy Bronze #1: France Bronze #2: Turkiye Women's Team Kumite Gold: Germany Silver: France Bronze #1: Kosovo Bronze #2: Italy Men's Team Kumite Gold: Italy Silver: Croatia Bronze #1: France Bronze #2: Greece Final Medal Standings 3 / 0 / 4 2 / 2 / 4 2 / 2 / 2 2 / 2 / 1 2 / 1 / 1 2 / 0 / 2 1 / 2 / 3 1 / 2 / 2 1 / 0 / 2 0 / 1 / 3 0 / 1 / 1 0 / 1 / 0 0 / 1 / 0 0 / 1 / 0 0 / 0 / 2 0 / 0 / 2 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1 0 / 0 / 1

Grand Slam #7 ( Astana) Results Recap https://www.ijf.org/competition/2876/results last GS tournament before the 2025 World Championships ( Budapest, June 13th through June 20th) South Korea and Neutral Athletes (basically ) earned the most gold medals, 3 each and won 2 gold medals each, meanwhile , , and earned 1 success each the Home Nation won the most medals among the participating Countries, but unfortunately for them, no gold (3 silver and 6 bronze in total) 18 Nations won at least 1 medal

Grand Slam #6 ( Dushanbe) Results Recap https://www.ijf.org/competition/2873/results participation to this tournament wasn't as strong as usual, therefore the Home Nation had an easy route to win the medal table with 4 gold medals, followed by , and with 2 and , , and with 1 in total, 17 Nations won at least 1 medal

Grand Slam #4 ( Tbilisi) Results Recap https://www.ijf.org/competition/2874/results ended up on top with 3 gold medals ahead of the Home heroes and the Neutral Athletes (basically, ) 10 Nations shared the 14 gold medals up for grabs and 22 could make the medal table with at least 1 tally

so, also this world cup stage is over 8 Nations shared the 15 medals up for grabs, with taking the top of the table with 2 gold medals, meanwhile , , won 1 gold medal each the next world cup event will be held in Munich (June, 8th through June, 15th), when only the Pistol & Rifle specialists will be in action

mixed Team Trap Gold: China (Zhang Zixi & Qi Ying) Silver: Poland (Sandra Bernal & Tomasz Pasierbski) Bronze: India 1 (Sabeera Haris & Kynan Chenai) Full Results & Rankings https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/3269/results

men's Trap Gold: Manuel Murcia Silver: Yannick Peeters Bronze: Aaron Heading Full Results & Rankings https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/3269/results

women's Trap Gold: Lada Denisova Silver: Carey Jeana Garrison Bronze: Alessandra Perilli Full Results & Rankings https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/3269/results

yeah, but the ayhletes normally say "tonight" even when they perform in the early morning, not to say after Noon

FIFA is the first to manage match fixing...they're more than happy to do it and they almost never hide their intention

2025 Karate 1 European Championships ( Yerevan) Medallists Recap (Part II) Women's Individual Kata Gold: Terryana D'Onofrio Silver: Helvetia Taily Bronze #1: Dilara Bozan Bronze #2: Paola Garcia Lozano Men's Individual Kata Gold: Enes Ozdemir Silver: Raul Martin Romero Bronze #1: Vladimir Mijac Bronze #2: Alessio Ghinami Women's Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold: Ema Sgardelli Silver: Erminia Perfetto Bronze #1: Aleksandra Mihailova Bronze #2: Shara Hubrich Women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold: Mia Bitsch Silver: Jennifer Warling Bronze #1: Ivet Goranova Bronze #2: Anna Chernysheva Men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold: Akhmed Akhmedov Silver: Orges Arifi Bronze #1: Balsa Vojinovic Bronze #2: Yura Zalyan Men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold: Abdurrahim Ozer Omer Silver: Iurik Ogannisian Bronze #1: Nenad Dulovic Bronze #2: Muhammed Oezdemir

48 teams work with 16 groups of 3 (same with 24 and 12...just make group stage with 3-team pools) ps I also think that 48 teams are too many even among the men, think among the women

it's a big improvement...last year lost to

2025 Karate 1 European Championships ( Yerevan) Medallists Recap (Part I) Women's Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold: Oleksandra Sholohova Silver: Beata Girvica Bronze #1: Anna-Johanna Nilsson Bronze #2: Anastasiia Semenenko Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold: Hannah Riedel Silver: Maria Isabel Nieto Mejias Bronze #1: Elina Sieliemienieva Bronze #2: Elena Quirici Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold: Kyriaki Kydonaki Silver: Dariia Bulay Bronze #1: Nikolina Golombos Bronze #2: Maria Torres Garcia Men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold: Ernest Sharafutdinov Silver: Nemanja Mikulic Bronze #1: Betim Maliqi Bronze #2: Konstantinos Zygouris Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold: Ivan Kvesic Silver: Valerii Chobotar Bronze #1: Janne Haubold Bronze #2: Gor Nersisyan Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold: Mehdi Filali Silver: Andjelo Kvesic Bronze #1: Matteo Avanzini Bronze #2: Ryzvan Talibov

2025 Karate 1 European Championships ( Yerevan) Medal Matches Summary (Part III) Women's Team Kumite Gold Medal Match: France vs Germany Bronze Medal Match #1: Italy vs Austria Bronze Medal Match #2: Greece vs Kosovo Men's Team Kumite Gold Medal Match: Croatia vs Italy Bronze Medal Match #1: France vs Bosnia i Hercegovina Bronze Medal Match #2: Greece vs Ukraine

oggi inizia un weekend bello "pregno": giro d'Italia, mondiali di Hockey, proseguono gli Europei di Karate, Judo Grand Slam...più le abituali attività di ogni fine settimana... speriamo siano di buon auspicio per i nostri colori

it looks like this year want a big revenge...there are a lot of big names and veterans in the squad, more than usual