Athletics: Montecarlo meeting, last stop before the European Championships

(ANSA) – MONTECARLO, 09 AUG – There will also be the Italian record holder of the 400 obstacles Ayomide Folorunso in the tenth stage of the Wanda Diamond League, tomorrow in Montecarlo. The blue is added to the already known investments of Gianmarco Tamberi in the upper, Gaia Sabbatini in the 1500s, Roberta Bruni in the auction and Mattia Furlani in the long. The Herculis Meeting, five days before the start of the European Championships in Munich, will be broadcast live on Rai 3 and Sky Sport Arena.

As for Tamberi, the shape is not yet dazzling due to the aftermath left by Covid. The victory in Hungary, however, restored confidence to the Olympian from above. “Bad physical sensations, energetic we do not talk about it, but the heart and the pride also worked this time. After a black week I begin to believe that the Europeans are possible”, he wrote on social networks after the 2.24 of Székesfehérvár. Monte Carlo, where he lived the most emotionally intense evening of his career before the night in Tokyo, hosts a real world final in the high jump: on the Louis II platform, Gimbo finds the entire podium of Oregon, from his great friend Mutaz Barshim (Qatar), the world champion with whom he scored the Olympic gold, to the Korean silver Woo Sanghyeok (world indoor gold) to the Ukrainian bronze Andriy Protsenko, beaten in Hungary. From 7.45 pm the Americans Shelby McEwen and JuVaughn Harrison, the Canadian Django Lovett, the New Zealander Hamish Kerr, with whom Tamberi shared the bronze at the Indoor World Championships in Belgrade, in addition to the Israeli Yonathan Kapitolnik and the Bahamian former world champion Donald Thomas will also jump. . Translated: eight of the first eleven of the world championship.

Also tomorrow in Monte Carlo, the sprint unveils the most delicious international themes of the meeting: hurricane Noah Lyles is preparing to strike in the 200 meters after the lightning 19.31 at Hayward Field (opposite to the other terrible Americans Erriyon Knighton and Michael Norman), the Jamaican master of the 100 and 200 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson compete in a derby in the fastest race. (HANDLE).

Source: Ansa

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