Paralympic champion Caironi was positive for doping: suspended

She is one of the most representative and winning athletes of the Italian Paralympic team, Martina Caironi, the 30-year-old Bergamo financier who tested positive for a doping control. Born in Lombardy, adopted in Bologna, Caironi was twice Olympic gold, several times world and European champion and currently also world record holder for the long jump (5 m) of 100 meters (14 "61) and 200 meters (32 "29).

His first victory was at the London 2012 Paralympic Games, when he won the gold medal in the 100 meter T42 test. Success also renewed in Rio de Janeiro, when the athlete of the yellow flames, the sports group of the financial guard, also had the honor of being the standard-bearer of the Italian team at the Maracana. In that same stadium, in addition to the gold medal in the 100 meters, he also won the silver in the long. Martina was all moved by the arrival of the queen race, because after having crossed the finish line she burst into a liberating cry: "There are tears of joy and tension – she said – there is inside the weight and the many expectations of these months, but also a escaped nightmare because I was about to lose the prosthesis ». Martina in fact runs with a hi-tech prosthesis on her left leg, the legacy of a bad car accident in motion that took place in 2007.

Also the following year great satisfactions for the blue athlete arrived. Caironi was standard-bearer at the Paralympic athletics world championships, which were disputed in London, and established itself by winning two golds, one in the 100 meters T42 and one in the long jump, obtaining the measurement of 4.72 meters on the sixth attempt, very close to the record. Last year the success arrived at the European Championships in Berlin, its 18th international podium, with the gold medal still in the long jump, with a better measure than the previous year, 4.91 meters, just 2 cm from the then world record. "I felt flying," he said that day. I hugged my two trainers almost with tears. I'm close to 5 meters and I'm glad it's a gradual approach ». Martina passed the fateful 5-meter measure, the new world paralympic long jump record, at the 2019 Open Championships held in Grosseto last June.