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Gianmarco Tamberi sale a 2,37 e vince l’Ultimate Championship

13 September

Gianmarco Tamberi jumps to 2.37m and wins the Ultimate Championship.

Francesco Pernici, Gianmarco Tamberi, Fiamme Oro Sports Group, Larissa Iapichino, Marcello Fiasconaro, Ultimate Championship

BUDAPEST - Gianmarco Tamberi achieved a remarkable feat, winning the Ultimate Championship in Budapest with a stunning 2.37m high jump, having previously jumped 2.35m, twice surpassing the world's best performance of the year. Gimbo then returned to attempt 2.41m, putting on a spectacular show in the stadium where he won the world title three years ago, just a month after his fourth European gold medal. In the first edition of the final event of the world athletics season, Tamberi's victory follows Larissa Iapichino's in the long jump. At 34, Gianmarco Tamberi once again managed to climb higher than anyone else in the world this season.

Dariya Derkach salto triplo nell’oro agli Europei di Birmingham

13 Aug

Dariya Derkach wins triple jump gold at the European Championships in Birmingham.

Dario Dester, Dariya Derkach, Erika Saraceni, Fausto Desalu, Philip Dezza, Francesco Pernici, Saliyya Guisse, Simona La Mantia

BIRMINGHAM - Italy celebrates its first-ever triumph in the women's triple jump at the European Championships. On the Birmingham arena, Dariya Derkach wins gold with a personal best of 14.60m (+1.9m) after a commanding performance from start to finish. At 33, after undergoing three Achilles tendon surgeries last season, the Italian athlete is having an unforgettable evening. In 2023, she won silver at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul. Derkach produced a fantastic run: a slightly windy 14.53m (+2.1m) at the start, then 14.48m (+1.3m) and a no-jump over 15 meters, until her breakthrough on her fourth jump, improving her personal best.

Eloisa Coiro abbatte dopo 46 anni il record degli 800 di Gabriella Dorio

11 Aug

Eloisa Coiro breaks Gabriella Dorio's 800m record after 46 years.

Eloisa Coiro, Francesco Pernici, GS Blue Flames, Gabriella Dorio, Keely Hodgkinson, Marcello Fiasconaro

BIRMINGHAM – Regardless of the outcome of the women's 800-meter final at the European Championships in Birmingham, for which she qualified by finishing second in her heat, Eloisa Coiro wrote a chapter in Italian athletics history by breaking a 46-year-old record held by Gabriella Dorio. Coiro's time was 1:57.56, one-tenth off Gabriella Dorio's best of 1:57.66, set in Pisa on July 5, 1980. The 25-year-old Roman ran a tactically intelligent race, making up two places on the straight to finish second, hot on the heels of…

Il bresciano Francesco Pernici cancella dopo 53 anni il record degli 800 di Marcello Fiasconaro

03 Jul

Brescia native Francesco Pernici has broken Marcello Fiasconaro's 800m record after 53 years.

Andrea Longo, Catalin Tecuceanu, Dalmatius Bersini, Francesco Pernici, Yellow Flames Sports Group, Marcello Fiasconaro

NANCY – A historic feat for 23-year-old Francesco Pernici from Brescia, who broke the Italian 800-meter record of 1:43.7, set by Marcello Fiasconaro on June 27, 1973, at the Arena in Milan. Pernice, representing the Fiamme Gialle (Fiamme Gialle), won the race held in Nancy, France, at the Silver meeting of the Continental Tour, with a time of 1:43.60, leading the entire race. Last September, in the semifinals of the World Championships in Tokyo, the athlete from Valle Camonica, coached by Dalmazio Bersini, had already come close to breaking the record, running 1:43.84, missing out on the final by just four hundredths of a second. At the Golden Gala in Rome,…