(ANSA) – WALNUT, APRIL 17 – The blue weightlifter Nick Ponzio restarts from a throw at 21.04 at the Golden Games in Walnut, California. The two-time Italian champion closes in fifth place in the race that kicks off the spring-summer season, four weeks after finishing seventh at the Indoor World Championships in Belgrade. It is a confirmation over the twenty-one meters reached in the last seven outings by the 27-year-old of Athletic Club 96 Alperia: for him the best attempt is the second.
A jump to exactly 17 meters, but with wind beyond the norm (+2.5) in Emmanuel Ihemeje’s winning outdoor debut in the triple.
At the first entry on the platform the Bergamasco returns to cross the barrier already crossed in the two triumphs of last season at the NCAA championships (17.26 in the hall and 17.14 outdoors). Also this year the 23-year-old blue won the university title with the Oregon Ducks shirt, but so far he had not managed to land so far and seizes the success with an inch ahead of 16.99 (+0.2) of the American Chris Benard.
In the 200 there is an exciting head-to-head with the 100-meter Olympic silver medalist Fred Kerley who wins in comeback in 19.80 (+1.6) to sign the best performance of the year in the world, overcoming Michael Norman (19.83) . Then there is the 20.01 of Rai Benjamin, who reached the second step of the podium in the 400 obstacles at the Games.
Absent the world champion of the 100 Christian Coleman, announced among the participants, in the 100 flies in the wind the twenty year old Micah Williams who impresses in 9.83 (+2.5), followed by the 9.93 of the other American Brandon Carnes. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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