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    The 2007 Italian Open Freestyle Frisbee Championships - Results

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    Players from across Italy, Germany, America and the Czech Republic gathered at Corallo Beach in Ostia for the Italian Open of freestyle frisbee.

    Several of the worlds top ranked players competed including current world champions Fabio Sanna, Antonio Piccioni Cusma and Eleonora Imazio.

    The German Champion Florian Hess teamed up with many time world champ Tom Leitner from Santa Cruz, California to win the open pairs division. Local Roman players Lorenzo Apriani and Edoardo Favorini also teamed with Tom to take the Co-op title, while Fabio and Eleonora won the mixed division.

    Sunny skies and constant beach wind greeted the players and spectators as 16 pairs teams, 10 co-op and 5 mixed teams competed. Teams were judged on the artistic and technical merits of the moves they completed.

    Move combinations often feature acrobatic movements and controlling the spinning frisbee by balancing it on the finernail or by doing tricks such as tips, wind brushes and rolls in addition to trick throws and catches. These 'combos' and music are integrated into the choreography of the routine which are 4 and 5 minute in length.

    The challenge is for teams to try to do the most difficult moves with the fewest drops while presenting a professional choreography at the same time.

    Many congratulations to all the winners and top finishers!

      See you next year! A Tutto Gas!

      - Tom Leitner

    PS I'd like to send a special thanks to all the sponsors for their support of this years event.

    Open Pairs Final

      1. Tom Leitner - Florian Hess - 42.7
      T2. Clay Collerˆ - Claudio Cigna - 37.3
      T2. Fabio Sanna - Antonio Piccioni Cusma - 37.3
      4. Alessandro Damiano - Edoardo Favorini - 35.9
      5. Lorenzo Apriani - Mauro Mercuri - 34
      6. Danilo Torzolini - Claudio Massaro - 32
      7. Jan 'Dexter' Struz - Pavel Bazanyk - 31.6
      8. Andrea Rimatori - Luca "Moxie" Mazzuccato - Did not play

    Open Co-op Final

      1. Tom Leitner - Edoardo Favorini - Lorenzo Apriani - 46
      2. Andrea Rimatori - Luca "Moxie" Mazzuccato - Claudio Massaro - 38
      3. Danilo Torzolini - Fabio Sanna - Antonio Piccioni Cusma - 36
      4. Jan 'Dexter' Struz - Pavel Bazanyk - Jan Zahradnicek - 34.1
      5. Clay Collerˆ - Claudio Cigna - Florian Hess - 33.8
      6. Paolo Mirabelli - Alessandro Damiano - Mauro Mercuri - 32.2
      7. Judith Haas - Alessandro Collerˆ - Eleonora Imazio - 22.7

    Mixed Pairs Final

      1. Fabio Sanna - Eleonora Imazio - 41.3
      2. Florian Hess - Judith Haas - 38.5
      3. Lorenzo Apriani - Fabiana Ciciriello - 29
      4. Francesca Cherici - Edoardo Favorini - 27.6
      5. Francesca Iasenzio - Claudio Massaro - 25.1

    Co-op "B Final" (top team advances to final)

      1. Paolo Mirabelli - Alessandro Damiano - Mauro Mercuri - 36.2
      2. Stefano Bellucci Sessa - Simone Italiano - Fabrizio De Rossi - 25.1
      3. Paolo Cipollini - Raffaele Pilla - Serge Marconi - 22.9
      4. Roberto Pizzi - Marco De Lucia - Claudio Pietrarelli - 22.3

    Open Co-op Semi Pool A

      1. Clay Collerˆ - Claudio Cigna - Florian Hess - 41.9
      2. Tom Leitner - Edoardo Favorini - Lorenzo Apriani - 32.9
      3. Jan 'Dexter' Struz - Pavel Bazanyk - Jan Zahradnicek - 28.1
      4. Stefano Bellucci Sessa - Simone Italiano - Fabrizio De Rossi - 23
      5. Paolo Cipollini - Raffaele Pilla - Serge Marconi - 22

    Open Co-op Semi Pool B

      1. Andrea Rimatori - Luca "Moxie" Mazzuccato - Claudio Massaro - 43.5
      2. Danilo Torzolini - Fabio Sanna - Antonio Piccioni Cusma - 52.5
      3. Judith Haas - Alessandro Collerˆ - Eleonora Imazio - 23.6
      4. Roberto Pizzi - Marco De Lucia - Claudio Pietrarelli - 22.9
      5. Paolo Mirabelli - Alessandro Damiano - Mauro Mercuri - late arrival

    Open Pairs Semis Pool A

      1. Tom Leitner - Florian Hess - 46.3
      2. Clay Collerˆ - Claudio Cigna - 42.6
      3. Lorenzo Apriani - Mauro Mercuri - 40.5
      4. Danilo Torzolini - Claudio Massaro - 35.7
      5. Stefano Bellucci Sessa - Simone Italiano - 31.1
      6. Serge Marconi - Raffaele Pilla - 29.2
      7. Claudio Pietrarelli - Paolo Braico - 28
      8. Fabiana Ciciriello - Marco De Lucia - 26.2

    Open Pairs Semis Pool B

      1. Andrea Rimatori - Luca "Moxie" Mazzuccato - 41.6
      2. Alessandro Damiano - Edoardo Favorini - 39.6
      3. Fabio Sanna - Antonio Piccioni Cusma - 37.3
      4. Jan 'Dexter' Struz - Pavel Bazanyk - 31.7
      5. Judith Haas - Alessandro Collerˆ - 28.9
      6. Paolo Mirabelli - Paolo Braico - 27.9
      7. Eleonora Imazio - Jan Zahradnicek - 25.4
      8. Fabrizio De Rossi - Roberto Pizzi - 21.8

    Links: Freestyle frisbee web sites:

    http://www.fristail.it/ (Non-profit Association for Freestyle Frisbee in Italy)

    http://freestyledisc.org// (The FPA is a non-profit, player run Association promoting freestyle frisbee around the world)

    http://www.ciakkauakkateam.com/ ('Ciakka Uakka'Italian Freestyle Frisbee Team - available for shows)

    http://www.freestyle-frisbee.com/ (freestyle-frisbee.com - news, instructions, photos and videos about freestyle)

    http://www.shrednow.com/ (shrednow.com - online freestyle community)


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