Alessandro Sibilio, blue joy in Diamond League in Doha

Great victory for Alessandro Sibilio in the 400-meter hurdles race in Doha (Qatar), the venue of the third stage of the Diamond League 2025: the athlete of the Fiamme Gialle, class of 1999, in fact won the final victory, closing the race held on Friday in 49″33, 7 hundredths ahead of Turkey″s Ismail Nezir and 16 hundredths ahead of Slovenia″s Matic Ian Gucek.

The time achieved by Sibilio is a far cry from his personal best, the 47″50 obtained in 2024 at the European Championships in Rome, which was then worth the national record as well as the continental silver medal, but it was enough to line up all of today&#8217s opponents in a race that started out difficult but ended with a decidedly convincing pace.

For Alessandro Sibilio, today’s is his first personal victory in the Diamond League: an important result that reinstates him in the elite of the discipline, a few months after the disappointment of the Paris Olympic Games, in which he did not manage to go beyond the semifinals, while instead three years earlier in Tokyo he had managed to qualify for the final, later placing eighth.

The current one is the sixteenth edition of the Diamond League, heir to the Golden League that was active from 1998 to 2009.

Doha is hosting the third stage of the season, following those in Xiameng and Shaoxing in China. The next meetings are scheduled between now and the end of August in Marrakech (May 25), Rome (June 6), Oslo (June 12), Stockholm (June 15), Paris (June 20), Eugene (July 5), Monte Carlo (July 11), London (July 19), Chorzow (July 26), Lausanne (August 20), Brussels (August 22) and Zurich (August 27 and 28).