It comes from windsurf another gold medal for Italy at the Paris 2024 Games. The Italian Martha Maggetti in the Iq Foil category she conquered the first place on the podium in the waters of Marseille. Maggetti challenged the English Emma Wilson, bronze, and the Israeli Sharon Kantor, silver. A perfect race management that brought the Italian from halfway through the competition to lead and then cross the finish line first. For Italy it is the sixth gold medal in this edition of the Olympics and the eighteenth overall.
Maggetti, 28, was born in Cagliari on January 12, 1996 and has already been a world champion. “After trying her hand at basketball, volleyball and artistic gymnastics, Maggetti began sailing as a child, following in her father’s footsteps, or rather the windsurfing board, and honing her skills in the crystalline waters of Sardinia,” reads the Games website. “During the youth competitions, she stood out by winning every available title thanks to her undeniable talent. In his first Olympic participation in Tokyo 2020, he placed fourth, but two years later he definitively conquered the international scene with the Gold medal at the World Championships in Brest in the iQFOiL class, ahead of Israelis Daniela Peleg and Maya Morris. In the summer of 2023, she once again made herself known at a global level: in the Netherlands, in fact, she obtained the qualification for her second Olympic participation”.
Italy’s last gold medal in windsurfing dates back to Sydney 2000 with Alessandra Sensini in the Mistral, the last medal ever was the one won by Sensini in Beijing 2008 in the RS:X class.
