Carlotta Gilli won gold and Alessia
Berra silver in the S13 100m butterfly at the Tokyo Paralympics
Wednesday, Italy's first gold and silver at the Games.
Turin-born Gilli, 20, is a partially sighted Italian Paralympic
swimmer who holds twelve world records in her class.
She won a total of nine golds at the 2017 and 2019 world
championships.
Berra, 27, has won a number of other medals.
Francesco Bettella won bronze in the men's S1 100m backstroke as
Italy picked up its first medal at the Tokyo Paralympics earlier
Wednesday.
Veteran Bettella represented Italy at the 2012 Paralympics and
at the 2016 Paralympics.
In 2016, he won two medals: the silver medal both in the men's
50 metre backstroke S1 event and in the men's 100 metre
backstroke S1 event.
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