Gianmarco Tamberi from Formia to Ostrava

Athletics, rallies

With the winter season over, a gathering period opens for several blue athletes. On Monday, March 11, the internship of hurdlers and multiple trials specialists begins at the Olympic Preparation Center in Formia (Latina, Italy): among them are 60hs world silver medalist Lorenzo Simonelli and Glasgow World Indoor Championships fourth-place finisher in the pentathlon Sveva Gerevini.

Also working in Formia over the past week was Olympic, world and European high jump champion Gianmarco Tamberi, announced to compete in Ostrava on May 28 ten days before the start of the European Championships in Rome. Underway, however, at the Olympic Preparation Center in Tirrenia (Pisa) is the gathering of a group of marchers including Valentina Trapletti.

Azzurri departing for South Africa: today middle distance runner Eloisa Coiro in Potchefstroom, in the coming weeks the takeoff of world silver medalist and indoor world bronze medalist Leonardo Fabbri and European indoor weight champion Zane Weir to Stellenbosch.