Athletics, World Indoor Championships: Lorenzo Simonelli silver in the 60 hurdles
Silver for Lorenzo Simonelli
After the silver won by Mattia Furlani in the long jump, Italy's track and field team celebrates another medal in the same metal at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, thanks to Lorenzo Simonelli's second place in the 60-meter hurdles final. The 7"43 final, achieved among others from lane 1, è also the new Italian record in the specialty.
The only athlete to finish the race ahead of Italy's Italian was U.S. world record holder Grant Holloway with an unreachable time of 7 seconds and 29 hundredths. To Simonelli però goes the satisfaction of winning the race among the "humans": beaten, specifically, Frenchman Just Kwaou-Mathey (7"47, bronze medalist), Spaniard Enrique Llopis (7"53) and Poland’s Jakub Szymanski (7"53).
Italy thus rises to two silvers (no golds nor bronzes) in the medal table: a few hours before Simonelli, the Italian team had celebrated the silver of Mattia Furlani, who despite managing, with a jump of 8.22, to equal that of Mitiadis Tentoglou, had to leave the gold to the Greek because of the second best measure (8.19 versus 8.10).
The World Indoor Track and Field Championships will conclude with the final day of competition scheduled for Sunday, March 3: 133 participants in Glasgow, Scotland, at the Emirates Arena, with Italy bringing a troop of 21 athletes to the United Kingdom. Two Italian medals also came in the previous edition, in Belgrade in 2022: Marcell Jacobs's gold in the 60 meters flat and Gianmarco Tamberi's bronze in the high jump. Both are not present in Glasgow.
