From Bebe Vio to Manuel Bortuzzo, Italian athletes at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games
141 athletes for 17 disciplines. This is how Italy presents itself at Paris 2024 Paralympic Games: two more sports than Tokyo 2020 and 26 more athletes than the last edition. save:
never before has such a large Italian delegation been seen at the Paralympic Games. A team that promises surprises, because it is fierce and with many victoriesin previous races in Japan, but also at the World Championships.
The greatest hopes for a medal rest on the swimming team, but the champions they promise surprises.
Who are the Italian athletes at the Paris Paralympic Games?
There are therefore 17 disciplines in which 141 Italian athletes will try to beat themselves and their opponents.
athletics, badminton, canoeing, rowing, cycling, horse riding, judo, swimming, fencing, sitting volleyball, weightlifting, taekwondo, wheelchair tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery and triathlon.
The average age of participants Games of Paris 2024 is 33.5 years old. The recruits will be 52about 37% of the Italian team, and the youngest athlete is Giuliana Chiara Filippi (athletics), born in 2005.
But let’s find out together which names are already known and which ones remain to be discovered.
Carrying high the flag of the Italian Paralympic national team at Paris 2024, Ambra SabatiniTokyo 2020 100m gold medalist in the T63 category, e Luca Mazzonecyclist, triple gold medalist in cycling between Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020.
“I go to Paris with great expectations, I have grown and I can’t wait to show it. But I also dream of the Italian podium again”, this is how Sabatini commented on his return to the 5 circles. At 17,
Ambra was involved in a car accident
whose consequences forced her to have her left leg amputated. Ambra chose to continue practicing sports such as swimming and cycling before returning to running thanks to the arrival of the prosthesis.
“It is a great pride to be the blue standard-bearer:
As a person, as a paracyclist, as a citizen of southern Italy
Luca Mazzone is a doyen of the Italian Paralympic movement: his first participation in the Paralympic Games dates back to 2000 in Sydney.
World and European Paralympic champion in individual foil Bebe Voi needs no introduction. His sporting and social commitment is well known.
He started fencing at age 5then at 11 years old, she gets hit by acute meningitis which caused the amputation of his limbs. With great determination, he returned to the stage thanks to the use of special prostheses and won numerous medals at the Paralympic Games, the World, European and Italian Paralympic Fencing Championships.
Valentina Petrillo is a transgender athletespeed specialist, and her dream is to be like Mennea, to run. She has a track record to her name, as important as it is heavy:
Manuel Bortuzzo’s story is well known. He moved to Rome at a young age to pursue his dream of becoming a swimming champion and competing in the 2024 Olympics, but in 2019 everything changed. One night in February he was accidentally involved in a shooting and hit by a bullet, losing the use of his legs.
He did not give up and became an example of great willpower that he brought to television. Italy Yes and in the house of Big brother VIP.