Paris 2024 Olympics, Italians to medal: Larissa Iapichino

Paris Olympics: Azzurri to medal

Larissa Iapichino è was born July 18, 2002, in Borgo San Lorenzo, Florence province. è is 1.71 meters tall and weighs 56 kg. She competes for Gruppo Sportivo Fiamme Oro, her first club’and her first coach were Atletica Firenze Marathon and Enrico Mancini.

È the daughter of Fiona May, two-time Olympic silver medalist and two-time world champion in the long jump, and Gianni Iapichino, her current coach and former Italian pole vault record holder. After eight years between dance, swimming and artistic gymnastics, in the summer of 2015 she decided to devote herself to athletics: first in sprinting, then on the hurdles and finally, starting in 2020, exclusively on the long jump platform.

At the Savona meeting she lands at 6.80, second Italian ever behind her mom. A year later in Ancona she grows again with a measurement of 6.91, the Under-20 world record at the indoor level, equaling Fiona’s overall national indoor record. In 2023 she improves again with the Italian indoor record of 6.97, having tied it again in Istanbul for the European indoor silver medal.

Outdoors she debuted with a personal best of 6.83 and won three Diamond League stops, going as high as 6.95 after taking the title at the European Under-23 Championships in Espoo with 6.93. Then in June 2024, she won European silver in Rome with 6.94. A creative and sunny girl, in her spare time she enjoys writing and is a law student. She had to forgo the Tokyo 2020 Games due to a serious injury, in Paris 2024 she shows up to finally explode.