Another gold medal, the fifth in total, fourth in the most precious metal, for Stefano Raimondi at the 2020 Paris Paralympic Games4. The Italian swimmer won the 200 medley SM10 ahead of the Australian Col Pearse and the Ukrainian Iohl Nimchenko. Fourth place for the other Italian Riccardo Menciotti.
Also Alberto Amodeo won the gold medal: in the 100m butterfly S8, the Italian preceded the Chinese Hongliang Wu, silver medal and Guanglong Yang, bronze.
Martina Caironiinstead triumphed in the 100 meters T63. The final was marked by the shocking fall of the other two Italian candidates for victory, Ambra Sabatini and Monica Contrafatto. In Tokyo, the three Italian athletes had dominated the podium, with Sabatini gold, Caironi silver and Contrafatto bronze.
Italy also closes with gold in the 4X100 freestyle mixed relay. Stefano Raimondi, Giulia Terzi, Xenia Francesca Palazzo and Simone Barlaam won the title and the 69th medal for the Italian team.