World Cup, Italy third in points standings

Athletics, results

Italy hits an excellent third place in the World Indoor Championships Glasgow points standings, the table that measures team depth and overall performance. The Azzurri totaled 50 points over the three days of the event in Scotland: never had there been so many in the previous eighteen editions of the World Indoor Championships (plus the 1985 experimental edition with the World Indoor Games format).

At most 46 points in’85 (as mentioned, they were not yet World Indoor Championships) and 39 in’89. Better than Italy, in Glasgow, only the United States, which dominated with 195 points, and Great Britain, second with 51, one more than Italy, which was overtaken just in the final race of the women’s 1500 meters.

È the best ever finish in the ‘placing table’: the Azzurri had never finished the event in the top three places, at most fourth in 1989 in Budapest. In an extraordinary team performance, Team Italy collects the record-breaking figure of 11 finishers, understood as placings in the top eight: previously there had been a maximum of nine in 1985 and 1989. Four medals, Mattia Furlani’s two silvers in the long and Lorenzo Simonelli’s in the 60hs, Leonardo Fabbri’s two bronzes in the weight and Zaynab Dosso’s in the 60s: equaled the historical records of 1985 and 1991. Sixteenth place in the medal standings, where the U.S. soars with 6-9-5.