Andrea Dallavalle, triple jump d'silver: Azzurro accomplishes an extraordinary feat
From the triple jump comes another splendid medal for Italy’s athletics at the World Championships in Tokyo: it is Andrea Dallavalle who signed an extraordinary feat, winning the silver medal with his personal best, set on the last jump available. The 1999-born athlete, a former European U23 champion in 2021 and continental silver medalist a year later among seniors, clocked an excellent 17.64, improving his previous best jump by almost half a meter in the evening.
Dallavalle put enormous pressure on Pedro Pichardo, who also had to pull out his best performance at the last jump, coming in at 17.91 after he had not gone beyond 17.55 in the first five jumps. The Portuguese therefore won the’gold ahead of the Italian, while Cuba’s Lazaro Martinez rounded out the podium, winning bronze with a measure of 17.49.
Distant all other finishers, starting with Algeria’s Yasser Mohammed Triki, fourth with 17.25. In fifth place finished Jamaican Jordan Scott, who stopped at 17.21, while the’other Italian in the final, Andy Diaz, finished in sixth with 17.19, the only measure above 17 meters among his six attempts (two of which were nulls).
The finalist in the final was Andy Diaz, who finished in sixth with 17.19.
D Dallavalle’s is the sixth overall medal for Italy at the World Championships in Athletics 2025: the Azzurri had won, through Friday, one gold with Mattia Furlani in the long jump, three silvers with Antonella Palmisano in the 35-kilometer march, Nadia Battocletti in the 10,000 and Dallavalle himself, and two bronzes with Leonardo Fabbri in the shot put and Iliass Aouani in the marathon.
