Italy’s first gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, with the Olympic champion of the 20km walk Massimo Stano who won the title in the 35km race.
The Apulian walker has imposed himself over time 2h23’14, new Italian record. Italy returns to world champion gold at the age of 19 from the one won by Giuseppe Gibilisco in the pole vault in Paris 2003. The Japanese Masatora Kawano, silver medalist, and the Swede Perseus Karlstrom went to the podium with the blue. , third.
“I wanted to win this world championship, to show that Tokyo was no accident and that I could do well even over a different distance. I felt and in my head it could only end like this “, Stano told Rai.” I’m happy not to have disappointed expectations and to have brought a gold that everyone expected – he adds -, and because in this way the movement of the march can have new life. A special dedication to Antonella Palmisano, who she was unable to compete here but I’m sure she would have been able to repeat herself as I did “.
Source: Ansa
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