
The Italian athletes monopolize the podium in the World Cup stage in Japan
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The single-color blue podium had already been achieved in 2024 in Tbilisi.
Takamatsu's podium in the foil World Cup stage looks like that of the Italian championships. In Japan the Italians played a historic poker game, monopolizing the semi-finals with four out of four athletes. The reigning world champion Martina Favaretto from Padua prevailed, beating Martina Batini from Pisa 15-13 in the final.
Bronze ex aequo for Alice Volpi and Arianna Errigo. It had only happened once before that the podium was a single color blue: it was 2024, in Tbilisi, where Alice Volpi won ahead of Arianna Errigo, and Martina Favaretto and Anna Cristino were third.

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