(ANSA) – ROME, JULY 22 – Emmanuel Ihemeje (17.13, wind +1.1) and Andrea Dallavalle (16.86, +0.7) entered the final at the Eugene Athletics World Championships. Eliminated the third of the Italians in the race, Tobia Bocchi (fifteenth with 16.58, +0.2).
Eliminated in the semifinal of the 800 meters Catalin Tecuceanu (1: 46.31), while Elena Bellò, in the same women’s race, earned the semifinal by virtue of the repechage by the jury (touched just before the finish straight, she stumbled losing the contact with the head: evident damage).
The 200-meter finals were exciting: Jamaican Shericka Jackson won the women’s one with 21 “45, second world performance ever, just 11 cents from the 21” 34 raced by Florence Griffith-Joyner in the 1988 Seoul Olympic final. , the American Noah Lyles raced in 19 “31, third world all-time performance, 12 cents from Usain Bolt’s record (19” 19 signed at the World Championships in Berlin 2009).
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Source: Ansa
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