Athletics: Fantini sets new Italian women’s hammer record

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(ANSA) – LUCCA, MAY 28 – A memorable day for the throwing of the hammer in Lucca: Sara Fantini sets the Italian record with 74.38, surpassing the 73.59 achieved by Ester Balassini in Bressanone in 2005 after 17 years.

The Carabinieri from Parma, who last year played in the final at the Tokyo Olympics, is unleashed at the Moreno Martini school camp: she improves by over one meter and seventy compared to the personnel obtained in winter (72.61) and adds 79 to the national record, with an amazing series that also includes a 74.29, a 73.53, a 72.06 and a 71.80.

A few weeks after the Eugene World Championships (15-24 July) and the European Championships in Munich (15-21 August) the 24-year-old double daughter of art (father Corrado ‘Cocco’ Fantini, Olympic weight finalist in 1996, mother Paola Iemmi, specialist of multiple tests and then of the javelin) is hoisted in seventh place in the seasonal world lists and in third place in the continental ones. (HANDLE).

Source: Ansa

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