TASHKENT (UZBEKISTAN) (ITALPRESS) – Sofia Frassica is a world silver medal. The blue of the category -63 kg gives Italy the taekwondo a prestigious result to the World Junior 2026 of Tashkent, giving only in the final to the hostess uzbeka Mohidil Uktamjonova for 2-1 (0-0, 1-5, 0-3) and giving to the Italian taekwondo in pink one of the most precious podiums ever conquered at youth level. A silver worth gold for the blue female movement. Disputate a worldwide final in the house of the sighter, in front of a completely lined audience for Uktamjonova, and get there after a five-round course all won, tells better than any statistics the performance of Apulian in this iridata review.
“I thank the Federation for trust and all the support in the preparation, the team and my society – said Frassica hot – I am sorry I didn’t bring gold home, but this is an extra stimulus: we will work”.
The path of blue to the podium was high. Starting from the thirty-twoth final, Frassica sequentially eliminated the Serbian Vanja Rankov, the Spanish Africa Pereniguez Martinez, the Russian Varvara Griazanova and the Chinese Ruxu Du, before passing in the semifinals the Belgian Noa Beckers with the score of 2-1 in a fight and resolved with great clarity after having yielded the first round. A result that brings the tricolor on the podium in a review marked by a record number of participants and a high technical level in the international taekwondo juniores.
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