Italian indoor weight record for Leonardo Fabbri
Italian indoor weight record for Leonardo Fabbri
Leonardo Fabbri’s masterpiece in Liévin, France. The world silver medalist returns well over twenty-two meters and crumbles the Italian indoor record in the weight with 22.37, slipping the record past training partner Zane Weir, who had thrown 22.06 in Istanbul for European indoor gold in 2023.
The result of the Aeronautics thrower enters by right in the history of the indoor specialty at the international level: with this performance Fabbri becomes the second European ever in indoor competitions only 18 centimeters from the continental record of German Ulf Timmermann (22.55 in 1989) and the sixth in the world of all time.
Not only that: è it is the best world performance of the year, when there are only three weeks left until the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow (March 1-3) and è a measurement never before achieved by the Italian, not even at the World Championships in Budapest, when he had climbed on the second step of the podium with 22.34. His series includes three other granite throws of 22.06, 21.92 and 21.69.
The victory è his: he beat three-time world champion Tom Walsh, who triumphed in his career at the World Championships in London and indoors in Portland and Birmingham (22.16 for the New Zealander). Third with 21.32 was Czech Tomas Stanek, fourth was the other Italian Zane Weir (Fiamme Gialle) with 21.03.
