Mattia Furlani aims for Diamond final
Athletics in Zurich
Fabbri to prepare for the Brussels final; Furlani, Simonelli, Bruni, Folorunso to secure it; Weir for the ‘impossible’ mission to climb the rankings. There will be seven, also considering Aceti in the pre-program, the Azzurri competing in Zurich in the last leg that puts up points to qualify for the’decisive act of the Wanda Diamond League on the weekend of September 13 and 14. The diamond circuit makes a stopover in Switzerland, at Letzigrund Stadium, one of the temples of world athletics, on Thursday evening. Preview instead for the women’s pole vault on Wednesday afternoon in the city event organized at Central Station, and then it’s immediately Roberta Bruni (Carabinieri)’s turn to defend her sixth position in the Diamond scoring list, the last one useful to fly to Brussels. È the usual slew of stars, from Olympic and world gold medalist Nina Kennedy (Australia) to U.S. Katie Moon. Bruni, after placing sixth at the Golden Gala in 4.53, also competed Monday evening in the square in Chiari, finishing with the same measure.
Thursdayì all other challenges. This time for Mattia Furlani ;(Fiamme Oro) more than the confrontation with the Greek Miltiadis Tentoglou, it counts to collect as many points as possible (the first takes 8, the second 7 and soì so on), to improve his current eighth place that still is not enough for the final of the King Baudouin Stadium. The Olympic bronze medalist meets the’gold medalist (Tentoglou) and Paris silver medalist (Jamaican Wayne Pinnock), and the’goal’is to get into the top six overall, to play for the Diamond next week at the Van Damme Memorial. In the weight, for the third time since the Olympics, Leonardo Fabbri (Aeronautica) faces the entire podium of the Games with the Americans Ryan Crouser and Joe Kovacs and Jamaican Rajindra Campbell: on the previous two occasions, success for Kovacs in Chorzow and for Crouser in Rome, with the Italian taking third (22.03) and second (21.70) respectively. If Fabbri è already qualified for Brussels (the other Azzurri already certain are Tamberi and Iapichino), è very complicated the road to the final of Zane Weir (Fiamme Gialle) who accomplice the seasonal injury has been able to compete in the Diamond League only in Rome (eighth, one point) and would need the full spoils. He can make it Lorenzo Simonelli (Army) currently eighth, out of the eight places available for the final in the 110 hurdles: also in Zurich there’è the medal-winning trio from Paris, namely Americans Grant Holloway and Daniel Roberts and Jamaican Rasheed Broadbell. In the last few hours found a lane in the 400 hurdles Ayomide Folorunso (Fiamme Oro), who, like the Golden Gala, runs into Olympic silver medalist Anna Cockrell (USA), and who must gain a position to take the final. In the pre-program, 400 meters for Vladimir Aceti (Fiamme Gialle), seventh at the Games with the 4×400, competing with Swiss European finalist Lionel Spitz.
The scene è all for Mondo Duplantis and Jakob Ingebrigtsen: the Swede chasing the 6.27 that would be worth the 11th career world record in the pole, the Norwegian looking for a great result in the 1500 (the dream è the 3:26.00 by Hicham El Guerrouj in 1998) after sending Daniel Komen’s 3000 record into the archives: but watch out, because there’s his ‘’’ Paris executioner Cole Hocker (USA) and Budapest’s Josh Kerr (Great Britain). In the 200 meters, a Letsile Tebogo in stellar form is aiming for his fourth Diamond League victory in two weeks: fresh off an Olympic gold medal, the Botswanian has lined up 19.64 in Lausanne, 19.83 in Chorzow and 9.87 in Rome (in the 100). In the women’s 100 there’s Paris gold medalist Julien Alfred (Saint Lucia) against silver medalist Sha’Carri Richardson (USA), in the 400 hurdles the duel Karsten Warholm (Norway) vs Alison Dos Santos (Brazil). High with world record holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine, 5000 for double Paris Olympic champion (also on the 10,000 at Stade de France) Beatrice Chebet (Kenya).
