Gianmarco Tamberi returns to jumping in Italy
Gianmarco Tamberi in Rovereto
The star è Gianmarco Tamberi, expected Tuesday evening at the Palio Città della Quercia after the two Diamond League stops in Chorzow (victory with 2.31) and Rome (third with 2.27), and before the final in Brussels on the weekend of September 13-14. The post-Paris run of the world and European high jump champion continues in the’60th edition of the Rovereto (Trento) meeting, a Silver leg of the Continental Tour, one of the classic end-of-season events. The Gold Flames holder returns to jump in Trentino three years after the last time, when he finished second after winning the Olympic title in Tokyo. This time on the platform he will find fourth-place finisher in Paris Stefano Sottile (Fiamme Azzurre), who wants to compete after the Golden Gala stop due to physical problems and still hopes for the Diamond League final, and then Jamaican second in Rome with 2.30 Romaine Beckford and the other Italian Manuel Lando (Aeronautica).
The spotlight is also on the 800 meters, which sees the presence of European bronze medalist Catalin Tecuceanu (Fiamme Oro), several times close to Marcello Fiasconaro’s historical record (1:43.7 in 1973), in particular with the 1:43.75 in Monte Carlo in mid-July. Others competing include Kenyan 1:42.08 Aaron Kemei Cheminingwa, Spaniard Mariano Garcia, who won World Indoor and European Championships in 2022, and fellow Italians Francesco Pernici (Fiamme Gialle) and Giovanni Lazzaro (Aeronautica). Also in the middle distance, keep an eye on Sintayehu Vissa (Atl. Brugnera Friulintagli), who at the Golden Gala missed the Italian record in the 1500, which she set in the semifinals at the Paris Olympics (3:58.11), by just one hundredth: the Friulian è announced in Rovereto in the 3000 meters, with Kazakh Norah Jeruto, Britain’s Melissa Courtney-Bryant and Italian Marta Zenoni (Luiss) and Micol Majori (Pro Sesto Atl. Cernusco). Last season, right at the Quercia Stadium, Vissa set a personal best at 8:47.40. In the women’s 800, there is a renewed challenge between Eloisa Coiro (Fiamme Azzurre) and Elena Bellò (Fiamme Azzurre), in the presence of 20-year-old U.S. Addison Wiley who just ran 1:56.83: overall, there are ten entrants with personal bests under two minutes.
Weight with European indoor champion Zane Weir (Yellow Flames), returning Nick Ponzio (Athletic Club 96 Alperia) and up-and-coming Riccardo Ferrara (Carabinieri), facing Olympic bronze medalist Rajindra Campbell (Jamaica), while renouncing silver medalist Joe Kovacs (USA). Sprint with Lorenzo Patta (Fiamme Gialle), the relay runner par excellence, Olympic champion in Tokyo with the 4×100 and then world silver in Budapest and European gold in Rome, before his fourth-place finish at the Paris Games: the Sardinian will be at the start of the 100 meters with the U.S. Ronnie Baker and Canadian 4×100 Olympic champion Jerome Blake. Four hundred with Alice Mangione (Army) and Giancarla Trevisan (Bracco Athletics) in the race awaiting two-time world bronze medalist (and seventh in Paris) Sada Williams (Barbados). Men’s lap for Edoardo Scotti (Carabinieri) and Lapo Bianciardi (Avis Barletta). In the hurdles (110hs) Hassane Fofana (Fiamme Oro) and Nicolò Giacalone (Atl. Biotekna) with the U.S. Cordell Tinch and Jamaican Orlando Bennett, in the women’s Giada Carmassi (Esercito) with the American Tonea Marshall. In the men’s 3000 Jacopo De Marchi (Army) and Mohad Abdikadar (Aeronautica), in the long Reda Chahboun (Libertas Unicusano Livorno) with Cuban Lester Lescay and Jam Tajay Gayle. International stars also included Olympic 100 finalist Tia Clayton (Jamaica) and world long bronze medalist Alina Rotaru-Kottmann (Romania).
