A heart-pounding finale and this time also a bit of luck: Niccolò Campriani scores a double, or rather a triplet considering also the gold medal in London 2012 won in the same race, that of the rifle three positions, which today gave him the step for the second time higher than the podium in Rio 2016. For him it is the fourth medal at the Olympics, given that four years ago he also won a silver. The blue medals now become 19, of which 7 are gold, and indeed they are already virtually 20 because in fencing the men's epee team has reached the final, thus putting at least another silver medal in the safe, which would be the fourth in all for fencing.
Paolo Pizzo, Marco Fichera and Enrico Garozzo beat the world champions Ukraine 45-33 in the semifinals at the end of a match they dominated from the beginning, in which they also had an advantage of 16 hits.
However, shooting did even better than fencing, not only thanks to Campriani's fabulous gold brace: counting both the clay pigeon shooting and target shooting competitions, Italy brought home 4 gold medals and 3 in silver, a record balance.
Before the fencing final, the blue expedition also has another card to play: that of Tania Cagnotto in the diving, 3-metre springboard competition.
