Italy closes European Championships in Rome with 24 medals, men’s 4×100 is gold
Italy closes European Championships in Rome with 24 medals, men’s 4×100 è d'oro
On the final day of the European Championships in Rome, Italy won four more medals, one gold, two silver and one bronze, and closed the home continental event by topping the medal table with 11 golds, 9 silvers and 4 bronzes.
In the men’s 4×400 relay, Italy, despite the last-minute forfeit of Alessandro Sibilio, wins the silver medal: Luca Sito, Vladimir Aceti, Riccardo Meli and Edoardo Scotti with 3’00”81 stand one hundredth ahead of Germany, which takes the bronze, the gold è of Belgium in 2’59”84.
In the women’s long Larissa Iapichino finally wins an important outdoor medal, silver, with a beautiful progression of jumps: 6.82, 6.84, nil to within 7 meters, 6.86, 6.90 and finally 6.94, behind the unreachable German Malaika Mihambo, gold with 7.22. Bronze to Portugal’s Agata De Sousa with 6.91, the same measure as Germany’s Mikaelle Assani, who was fourth for a second best shortest jump.
In the men’s 1500, bronze medal for Pietro Arese with a time of 3’33”34, gold to the superfavorite, Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen (3’31”95), silver to Belgium’s Jochem Vermeulen (3’33”30). The other two Italian nationals Ossama Meslek and Federico Riva finished 14th (3’36”35) and 15th (3’37”37), respectively.
In the men’s 4×100 relay Matteo Melluzzo, Marcell Jacobs, Lorenzo Patta and Filippo Tortu won gold in 37’82 honoring the Tokyo Olympic title. Silver to the’Netherlands in 38”46, bronze to Germany in 38”52.
Other competitions. Ilaria Elvira Accame, Giancarla Trevisan, Anna Polinari and Alice Mangione finished fourth in the women’s 4×400 relay but set a new Italian record in 3’23”40. The’gold è went to’Holland dragged by Femke Bol (3’22”39), the’silver to’Ireland (3’22”71), the bronze to’Belgium (3’22”95).
Gold in the men’s javelin was won by Czech Jakub Vadleich (88.65), silver by German Julian Weber (85.94), bronze by Finland’s Oliver Helander (85.75). In the women’s 800 gold to Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson, (1’58”65) silver to Slovak Gabriela Gajanova (1’58”79), bronze to France’s Anais Bourgoin (1’59”30).
In the men’s 10000, gold to Switzerland’s Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu (28’00”32), silver to France’s Yann Schrub (28’00”48), bronze to Spain’s Thierry Ndikumwenayo (28’00”96). In the women’s 4×100 gold to Great Britain (41”91), silver to France (42”15), bronze to the’Netherlands (42”46).
Finally, big close with the men’s pole vault, where Armand Duplantis won the most obvious gold of these European Championships by clearing 6.10, then the Swede attempted the world record at 6.25 failing by a whisker on the first attempt and more sharply on the other two. Silver to Greece’s Emanouil Karalis with 5.87, bronze ex-aequo with 5.82 to Turkey’s Ersu Sasma and Germany’s Oleg Zernikel.
