Mediterranean Games: After 18 editions, South Tyrol has 18 gold medals

The Mediterranean Games have been held since 1951, always one year before or one year after the Olympic Games. This time it's two years because the venue Tarragona had financial problems last year.

At the Mediterranean Games, athletes from all countries on the Mediterranean compete in sports that are partly Olympic and partly non-Olympic. Athletes from 2018 countries took part in the 26 Games in Tarragona.

The best South Tyrolean swimmer in Tarragona was the Brixen swimmer Laura Letrari , who won two gold medals, one in the 4x100 m freestyle relay and one in the 4x200 m freestyle relay. Thanks to these two medals, South Tyrol's haul includes 18 gold medals after 18 editions of the Mediterranean Games.

Letrari guarantees success for freestyle relay For Letrari herself, these are golden numbers two and three, because nine years ago she won gold in the freestyle relay in Pescara in 2009. And there could have been four, because in 2013 in Turkey, Italy's relay team was subsequently disqualified due to a mistake in substitution.

The woman from Brixen is South Tyrol's second most successful at the Mediterranean Games, as she is a South Tyrolean by choice Giorgio Cagnotto won gold in diving four times in the 1970s. Tanja Cagnotto's father, who was born in Turin, won in Izmir in 1971 on both the tower and the board and then in Algiers in 1975 and again in Split in 1979 on the 3-meter board. Klaus Dibiasi opened South Tyrol's gold series His long-time companion Klaus Dibiasi won South Tyrol's first gold medal at the Mediterranean Games: when he was not even 16 years old, Dibiasi won the diving competition in Naples in 1963. He repeated this victory in 1975.

In the 1980s, the Bolzano track and field athlete wore it twice Erica Rossi in the winners' lists: in 1983 in Casablanca and 1987 in Latakia, Syria, she won twice with the 4x400 meter relay.

There is only one gold medal to report from the 1990s, but with the participation of two South Tyrolean women: the Brixen women Dagmar Gitzl and Elke Niederwieser won the 1993 handball tournament in Languedoc-Roussilon (France) with Italy's national team. From 2005 to 2018, two gold medals four times After the turn of the millennium, another nine gold medals followed: in 2001 in Tunis and in 2005 in Almeria, Spain, the native of Bolzano celebrated Ylenia Scapin two victories in judo. In Almeria there was also gold for Italy's basketball team - with the Buchholzer Thomas Ress .

Since 2005, the South Tyrolean athletes have won two gold medals at the Mediterranean Games every time, because in 2009 in Pescara, in addition to the aforementioned medal for Laura Letrari, there was also - surprisingly - tennis gold for Evelyn Mayr . The Olanger woman, whose best ranking in the world was number 301, defeated the Spaniard Laura Pous-Tio in the final.

At the 2013 Mediterranean Games in Merzin, Turkey, the sports shooter finally won gold Petra Zublasing in 10 meter air rifle shooting and for Raphaela foil with Italy's volleyball team.

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Mediterranean Games: After 18 editions, South Tyrol has 18 gold medals

The closing ceremony of the 18th Mediterranean Games ends today in Tarragona, Spain. The local athletes won seven medals: two gold, two silver and three bronze. SportNews looked at the chronicle of this major sporting event for the other South Tyrolean gold medals.

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