One gold, one silver and two bronze tricolours for the Air Force table tennis players Terni 02-04/03/2018 - The Italian Table Tennis Championships concluded in Terni with a rich haul of medals for the athletes of’Italian Air Force. On Friday, Men's Doubles and Mixed Doubles took place, in which the’Chief Petty Officer Marco Rech Daldosso He is a real record-breaker. He and Niagol Stoyanov (Gruppo Sportivo Fiamme Azzurre) confirm themselves as Italian Men's Doubles Champions for the sixth consecutive time without dropping a single set to their opponents, while in Mixed Doubles with Chiara Colantoni (Tennistavolo Castel Goffredo), after four consecutive successes, they win bronze. Competing for the medals in the Men's Singles podium are Leading Aircraftman Mihai Bobocica who has already won six times (2007-2009-2011-2012-2013-2017), the’Leading Aircraftman Leonardo Mutti a (2015), Stoyanov also (2014), and Matteo Mutti. The semi-final between the Mutti brothers saw the older brother win 4-0, while the other semi-final between Bobocica-Stoyanov, a year after the 2017 studetto final, gave Stoyanov the final. In a final that was never a foregone conclusion, made up of leads and comebacks, Stoyanov got the better of table tennis player A.M. by 4-3 (11-6, 3-11, 10-12, 11-5, 11-4, 9-11, 11-8).
(in photo, from left to right: 2nd Class Airman First Class Leonardo Mutti; 1st Class Niagol Stoyanov; 3rd Class, 1st Class Aircraftsman Mihai Bobocica and Matteo Mutti)
