Athletics: Larissa Iapichino is back, tomorrow in the race in Ancona

(ANSA) – ROME, JANUARY 21 – It is the debut weekend for Larissa Iapichino: tomorrow in Ancona the Florentine long-distance player of the Fiamme Gialle returns to action after almost seven months and the ankle injury that made her lose the Olympics Tokyo. For her it will be the first test of the season on the platform of the amazing 6.91 under 20 world record last winter. Appointment at 16.30, based on the updated time after the closing of registrations, for the start of the race which will also involve the carabiniera Elisa Naldi (6.39 a year ago), the twenty-year-old Veronica Crida (Atl. Brescia , 6.33 in career) and Carol Zangobbo (Assindustria Sport), recently landed at 6.27.

“In 2022 you will see an athlete with a great desire to do, have fun and improve”, the promise of Iapichino, who after tomorrow’s seasonal debut will be back on the platform in Ancona at the Italian Junior Championships and promises of 5-6 February, and then she will meet her international opponents at the Copernicus Cup in Torun, Poland, on February 22nd.

Later he will return to Ancona for the Indoor Absolutes on the weekend of 25-27 February. Four races to prepare for the first big event of the year, the Belgrade Indoor World Championships, scheduled from 18 to 20 March.

Also in Ancona, but on Sunday, spotlights on 60 meters: female Irene Siragusa (Army), Zaynab Dosso (Fiamme Azzurre) and the emerging Hope Esekheigbe (Assindustria Sport) together with the obstacolist Luminosa Bogliolo (Fiamme Oro) on the flat distance . In the men’s field, the competitive 2022 of Luca Lai (Athletic Club 96 Alperia, 6.57 of personal best) and Chituru Ali (Fiamme Gialle, 6.68), blue at last year’s indoor European Championships, opposite Antonio Moro (Delogu Nuoro) , which fell to 6.67 two weeks ago. But there will also be Luca Antonio Cassano (Aeronautica), club mate Giovanni Galbieri and Alex Zlatan (La Fratellanza 1874 Modena). In the 400 on Saturday, the first seasonal outing for the under 23 European champion of the 800 meters Simone Barontini (Fiamme Azzurre). (HANDLE).

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