Doric fencing excels. Jetmir and Benedetta super

Great results for the Ancona fencing ai Italian Under 23 Championships which ended on Sunday in Salsomaggiore Terme. These titles are particularly important because they give the right to participate in the European championships in the category. The weekend opened on Friday with the epee competitions where Jetmir Giacchetti from Jesi was the best of the Marche region, finishing far from the podium in 134th place; in the same weapon, but in the female category, there were no athletes from the province of Ancona competing. When it came to the epee competitions foil but here comes the satisfaction right on time. He started off great right away Blessed Pantanetti, from Ancona and the Carabinieri who trains in Jesi, came in third in the women's foil, where Matilde Calvanese from Fiamme Oro (based in Jesi) also placed in the top fifty, as did the other Jesi athletes Lucrezia Monti, Ginevra Guerrini and Claudia Rotella, Alice Gambitta and Giada Pianella from the Ancona Fencing Club and the Osimo athletes from Misericordia Camilla Vaccarini and Ludovica Grisanti. Sunday's closing ceremony went even better with the podium of the Jesi athletes male foil Federico Greganti e Jacob Bonato, respectively second and third. Twenty-first and twenty-second were the other foil fencers of the Club Scherma Jesi Francesco Cercaci and Marco Proietti, placings also for Semuel Lorenzo Durruthy, Francesco Vannucci, Filippo Lapponi, Matteo Quaglietti, Jetmir Giacchetti, Arnau Mazzarini, all from the fencing clubs of Jesi and Ancona. While the Italian under-23 championships were taking place in Salsomaggiore Terme, the under-14 regionals were being held in Loro Piceno. Here, victories for Carmine Sansone of the Club Scherma Jesi in the D category (age class 2013-2014), for Maria Ludovica Trombetti, also from the Club Scherma Jesi, in the Allieve Foil, where she preceded her teammate Ludovica Balducci; success also in the épée with Emily Riciotti of the Fabriano Fencing Club, Girls category with the Fabriano club that did the double in the same weapon among the Students with Eleonora Gregori. Jesi was once again the protagonist in the Girls foil, where Melita Governatori won, a success repeated among the Boys by her club mate Evan Felici. Regional titles for Jesi also with Maria Elena Li Bergolis (Girls foil), for Fabriano (Alessandro Monteneri, Students épée) and finally also for the Ancona Fencing Club that won with Mattia Stipa the Boys foil.

Andrea Pongetti