World Championships, Elisa Molinarolo to dream.
The Venetian is the first Italian pole vaulter to reach a rainbow final.
The Venetian is the first Italian pole vaulter to reach a rainbow final.
The U.S. triumphed in Budapest by running in 9″83
“I’m not afraid of defeat, I know my real value is not this and I wanted a title that I know is mine.”
The Olympic champion significantly lowered his time in the 100 meters, but finished the semifinals in fifth place.
Blue’s second medal in Budapest: “Moment I’ve been waiting for two years. Paris awaits me.”
The Olympic champion snatched third place in his 100-meter heat by a single hundredth, avoiding the risks associated with repechage.
Italian results in the first morning of the rainbow event in Budapest. Stano retires in the 20 km march.
The rainbow event starting next Aug. 19 will not feature reigning Olympic and world 400 hs champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone among those in attendance.
Intterpressed by Ansa, the entourage of the Olympic 100 and 4×100 champion assures that the Italian will be present at the Budapest rainbow event that begins in ten days.
A total of 80 people have been summoned (44 men, 36 women) for the August 19-27 World Championships.
The Olympic 100-meter champion’s name is among those on the list of participants in the pre-world championship meet of relay and hurdlers.
Blue wants the final he came close to in Eugene and to go under 20 seconds.
Blue is looking for lost form: “I just need to register technically.”
It happened on the final day of the Italian junior championships in Grosseto.
The Olympic champion: “A pre-World Cup competition? Speeding up the timing would not make sense.”
Gone at the age of 87 in Florence is the race judge, journalist, writer and executive.
Light Blue ready to get back on track at Worlds: “I’m very confident”
The Italian jumper triumphed in Stockholm in the long jump with a leap of 6.69 meters.
After the blue triumph in Chorzow, the sprinter in the Czech Republic.
The Neapolitan hurdler wins in the track lap (48.14). Furlani is second in the long (7.97), as are Folorunso (400hs, 54.79), Cestonaro (triple, 14.09) and the men’s 4×100 relay (38.47). Italy always in the lead.
In Chorzow they start Friday afternoon: competing are Ceccarelli and Dosso in the 100, Battocletti in the 5,000, Osama Zoghlami in the steeplechase, Fantini in the hammer, and Osakue in the discus.
Those summoned for the June 23-25 event in Poland: also on the team are European indoor gold medalists Ceccarelli and Weir, Olympians Tortu, Desalu, Patta, European champion Crippa, and long distance runners Iapichino and Furlani.
The reigning Olympic 100 champion published a long post on Instagram in which he expresses his views after finishing seventh in Paris.
In Pietrasanta, the 27-year-old native of Turin came in at 64 meters 57 and earned a pass for the World Championships in Budapest.
Olympic 100 champion in outdoor season opener runs a modest 10″21, Lyles wins in 9″97. Two world records broken at Olympic distances.
Skip the confrontation between the Olympic and world champion again, but this time it will be the U.S. who will not be there.
In Bydgoszcz, the Italian middle distance runner grabs a splendid success in the 1500 meters of the Continental Tour’s Gold stage and crumbles the personal best.
The light blue marcher is in the four-man candidate pool for the May European Athletics poll.
The new long jump star signs the Italian under-20 record, surpassing after 19 years the 8.11 with which Andrew Howe won the gold medal at the 2004 World U20 Championships in Grosseto.
The Olympic 100-meter champion due to a back problem will not be able to participate in tomorrow night’s Golden Gala in Florence.