Mattia Furlani, comes a comparison that leaves you speechless
Mattia Furlani, comes a crazy comparison
Andrew Howe, host of the Giffoni Film Festival, also è dwelt on Mattia Furlani. "I expect shortly that he will beat my record. I would be overjoyed because I have known him for so long and it would really be an honor for me. I was happy, I have held it for 17 years, it's okay.
"By now the long è passed to him! I’ve known him since è born, Mattia è a phenomenon. A mixture of Mike Powell and Bob Beamon" added the Italian long jumper and sprinter, national record holder in the long jump (8.47 m).
Silver at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow 2024 in the long jump, thus earning his first medal 'growing up' at only nineteen years old, Mattia è the third child of a family that è moved to Rieti in 2010, after living in Grottaferrata, in the Castelli Romani. The family è is known for the successes of his sister Erika (world runner-up junior champion in 2013 and European under-23 bronze medalist in 2017), but also for the sporting achievements of his father Marcello (who in 1985 jumped 2.27 meters in the high jump) and his mother Khaty Seck, a sprinter of Senegalese origin, who also supported him technically.
In 2024, after improving his European U20 indoor record to 8.08 meters, è became the Italian overall indoor record holder with a jump of 8.34 meters, surpassing Howe’s previous record of 8.30 meters set in 2007. He also won the silver medal at the World Indoor Championships with the same measure as the winner, Miltiadis Tentoglou, who jumped 8.22 meters. Outdoors, he set the under-20 world record in Savona with a jump of 8.36 meters. He attends an institution with a linguistic focus.
