Diamond League London: mockery for Larissa Iapichino, Italian mile record for Marta Zenoni

By just one centimeter, and at the’last jump, Larissa Iapichino did not get her sixth victory in a Diamond League meet. It happened in London, where Larissa led the long jump competition as early as the third round with 6.82 and then in the fourth with 6.89. She was then overtaken on the fifth attempt by Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion Malaika Mihambo of Germany, who clocked 6.93. Iapichino tried to replicate with her sixth and final jump and failed by just one centimeter, getting a measurement of 6.92.

Marta Zenoni, a middle distance runner who signed the Italian record in the mile with 4:17.16 and scored an excellent fifth place: surpassing Sinta Vissa&#8217s 4:21.51 indoor and Gabriella Dorio&#8217s 4:23.29 outdoor in 1980. Gaia Sabbatini (11th) also under the previous Italian record in the mile with 4:19.83.

Not well, however, Mattia Furlani, who in the men’s long jump was only fourth on the wet early afternoon platform. In the first three jumps, complicit with the rain, the world indoor long champion stays this side of eight meters (7.91, 7.61, 7.83). It is in the fourth round that he manages to find the best measure of the day, the 8.05 (+0.4) with which he gains a position over the Swiss Simon Ehammer. It is not enough, however, to land in the Final 3, which in any case does not change the cards on the table: success for Jamaican Wayne Pinnock (8.20) ahead of Greece&#8217s Miltiadis Tentoglou (8.19) and the other Jamaican Carey McLeod (8.10).

In the most anticipated race, the men’s 100 meters, Olympic champion Noah Lyles finished second in 10.00 placing behind Jamaican Oblique Seville who won by running 9.86. Badly the 200 Olympian Letsile Tebogo, only seventh in 10.12.