Tokyo 2020 Olympics: the Neapolitans who won a medal

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Italy is making us experience a lot of emotions in these Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Campania also takes home some merit, thanks to athletes originating from our land. At the moment i Neapolitan who have triumphed at these Olympic games have conquered the bronze medal, obtaining fantastic results capable of igniting the Neapolitan people.

After seeing all participants nostrani, dunaue, let's move on to Winners Neapolitan of Tokyo 2020.

Irma Head

  • Olympic sport: boxing, featherweight
  • Place of birth: Torre Annunziata
  • Date of birth: December 28, 1997
  • Medal in Tokyo 2020: bronze

Originally from Torre Annunziata, Irma Testa was the first to make Naples dream. The athlete has indeed won a bronze very tiring and reaches a historic milestone for our country: yours medal it is in fact la first for Italy in women's boxing. In an interview with Corriere, Irma talks about herself and hers difficult adolescence. Escaped from an uncertain future, the athlete mentions her lack of inclination towards school and its complex neighborhood (one of the most difficult in Torre Annunziata). Between melancholy and nostalgia, the Testa went on its way also thanks to the passion transmitted by sister, Lucia, for the same sport. For Irma Testa, boxing is simply everything.

Marco DiCostanzo

  • Olympic sport: rowing
  • Place of birth: Naples
  • Date of birth: June 9, 1992
  • Medal in Tokyo 2020: bronze

The Spanish Neighborhoods they celebrated their Olympic champion. Marco Di Costanzo took over from the athlete Bruno Rossetti since it tested positive at COVID-19 a few hours away from the start of the competition. After taking home the bronze medal, Di Costanzo immediately paid homage to his colleague Rossetti.

Di Costanzo found himself catapulted into an Olympic final and at that point he was literally overwhelmed by emotions and managed to triumph with his head held high.

He began his career in 2003 in the company Napoli Cir.Can. trained by Molea Valter and among his victories we also find that of Rio 2016 Olympics in which he obtained the bronze medal.

Joseph Near

  • Olympic sport: rowing
  • Place of birth: Naples
  • Date of birth: February 26, 1993
  • Tokuo Medal 2020: bronze

On the web ran his famous phrase "With one year of preparation I would have been more than prepared, but with two there will be nothing for anyone!”And so it was. The Neapolitan champion took home the bronze medal together with his team.

His career begins in 2005 in the Circolo del Remo e della Vela Italia and his first big victory came in 2015 where, during the World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette, conquer thegold. Another unlocked goal is the first blue gold in history in the specialty of the two without male senior during the Sarasota 2017 Word Rowing Champioships Championships (USA). He also distinguished a Rio 2016 where, together with his colleagues, he took home the medal of bronze.

A guy with an iron will and very active on social media, so much so that he launched his #peppesunset appointment (every evening a shot of the sky at sunset). Despite, however, this romantic philosophy, Close has some firm and precise objectives. He claims to be inspired by Godin's famous book "The Purple Cow" and talks about the rowing as a family business. He is not the only one, in fact, to practice it in its nucleus, but also the brothers Antonio, Luca and Marco. Who do you take inspiration from? Even by Steve Redgrave, the British with five Olympic gold medals.

Matthew Castaldo

  • Olympic sport: rowing
  • Place of birth: Naples
  • Date of birth: December 11, 1985
  • Tokyo 2020 medal: bronze

He often emphasized the difficulties that hit the world of sport during the pandemic. Castaldo was in fact affected by the division of athletes during training that did not allow constant confrontation to improve day after day. But he never lost heart.

Enthusiast gardening, of hers children (Laura born after Rio 206 and Fabrizio in 2018) and of all his family, in fact, always accompanied by father Antonio on the racing fields around the globe. And above all he has never been discouraged, in fact his success came in old age, a great lesson to be passed on to many rowers who give up too soon.

He got many successes as a young man, like the silver in the Under 23, but after the age of 30 its rise has been clear. In 2013 he won the gold medal at the Mediterranean Games in two without paired with Marco Di Costanzo, in 2015 he became absolute world champion in the four without, and in 2016 in Rio, during his very first Olympiad, take home the bronze one. And then it came to Tokyo 2020 to win another bronze.



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