Marcell Jacobs, in Ancona to drop a hat trick
Ancona, members
Absolute show. Entries are online for the Italian Absolute Indoor Championships on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 at the Palaindo in Ancona, the top winter event in Italian athletics and the last call to qualify for the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul (March 2-5). Two days of competition, twenty-six titles to be awarded and many Italian bigwigs, starting with the most eagerly awaited man, Olympic 100 and 4×100 champion Marcell Jacobs (Fiamme Oro), who has confirmed his participation with the goal of capturing his third consecutive Italian title in the 60 meters, a specialty in which he is the reigning world and European champion as well as continental record holder with 6.41. Among his opponents he will find newcomer Samuele Ceccarelli (Atl. Firenze Marathon) rising to 6.58.
There will be no shortage of high jump bronze medalist at the World Championships in Eugene Elena Vallortigara (Carabinieri). In the long jump platform, all eyes are on Larissa Iapichino (Fiamme Gialle) world U20 indoor record holder, back to jump 6.72 as she hasn’t done in two years, and on the portentous Mattia Furlani (Fiamme Oro), newly 18 years old, fresh from the European U20 indoor record one step away from eight meters (7.99): nice match with Olympic finalist Filippo Randazzo (Fiamme Gialle). Also from the jumps, there is the confrontation between Italian pole vault record holder Roberta Bruni (Carabinieri) and Elisa Molinarolo (Fiamme Oro), in the triple jump Dariya Derkach (Aeronautica), and then the returns of asthlete Claudio Stecchi (Fiamme Gialle) and high jumper Stefano Sottile (Fiamme Azzurre).
Middle distance with many names that are revitalizing the sector: from the new Italian indoor mile record holders Sintayehu Vissa (Atl. Brugnera Friulintagli) and Pietro Arese (Fiamme Gialle), European cross relay champions along with Yassin Bouih (Fiamme Gialle) and Federica Del Buono (Carabinieri), to the exuberant 2000 class Federico Riva (Fiamme Gialle), Ludovica Cavalli (Aeronautica) and Eloisa Coiro (Fiamme Azzurre), to octocenters Catalin Tecuceanu (Silca Ultralite Vittorio Veneto, joined Fiamme Oro), Simone Barontini (Fiamme Azzurre) and Elena Bellò (Fiamme Azzurre), to Ossama Meslek (Atl. Vicentina) and Pietro Riva (Fiamme Oro).
Weight with the gritty blue trio composed of Leonardo Fabbri (Aeronautica), Zane Weir (Fiamme Gialle) and Nick Ponzio (Athletic Club 96 Alperia), in the hurdles the freshness of Lorenzo Simonelli (Esercito), Veronica Besana (Atl. Lecco Colombo Costruzioni) and Giulia Guarriello (Atl. Guastalla Reggiolo), all at the best Italian U23 performance, and the experience of Paolo Dal Molin (Fiamme Oro) and Luminosa Bogliolo (Fiamme Oro). In the sprint, officially absent Italian 60 record holder Zaynab Dosso (Fiamme Azzurre), two bronze medalist relay runners in Monaco, Anna Bongiorni (Carabinieri) and Alessia Pavese (Aeronautica), will compete, in the 400 Ayomide Folorunso (Fiamme Oro) and in the men’s the emerging Riccardo Meli (Fiamme Gialle) and Olympic relay finalists Edoardo Scotti (Carabinieri) and Vladimir Aceti (Fiamme Gialle), in the march Francesco Fortunato (Fiamme Gialle), in the pentathlon the record-holder Sveva Gerevini (Carabinieri), no heptathlon for Dario Dester (Carabinieri) who is registered instead on 60hs and long.
