(ANSA) – ROME, JUL 15 – The Olympian Gianmarco Tamberi qualified for the final of the high jump of the Oregon 2022 World Championships, in Eugene, overcoming the measure of 2.28 in the eliminatory round on the third attempt. A green disc that is worth a company, given the conditions, and the level (which proved to be very high) from the opponents. After the jump, Tamberi remains on the big bags, physically exhausted but, from what we can guess, even at a nervous level from the double test (2.25 and 2.28) on the third attempt. The ranking (for what it counts) places the blue in eleventh place. The finalists are Woo, Lovett, Protsenko, Barshim, Shinno, McEwen, Zayas, Harrison, Kapitolnik, Baden, Tamberi, Rivera and Przybylko. Eliminated the other blue Marco Fassinotti. The race that will award the medals is scheduled at 2.45 am between Monday and Tuesday.
“It was a grind – Tamberi commented on RaiSport -. Peace with Fassinotti (with whom he had quarreled at the Italian championships in Rieti ed)? It seemed to me the minimum, here I am the captain of the national team and the spirit also counts team”. As for today’s race “I knew that I would have to fight with my teeth here, you know everything I have been through this year, but I wanted to be there. Today I did the best I could, and now I hope to bring out something good in the final. . With my father we came here together and we face the World Championship like the other races, it is useless to talk about what happened before and what did not work. The final will be a battle, we will have to bring out the attributes, but now I need to rest . “.
Also today, on the inaugural morning of Oregon ’22, the mixed 4X400 relay of Italy, in the new formulation (man-woman alternating) and composed by Lorenzo Benati, Ayomide Folorunso, Brayan Lopez and Alice Mangione, qualified for the final thanks in fourth place in the first semifinal, won by the USA (which did not field Allyson Felix) ahead of the Netherlands and Poland. The time of 3’13 ″ 89, the sixth best ever, earned the Azzurri access to the final. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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