At the end of the month many stars at the Lignano Meeting: 14 world gold medals competing

Over 100 athletes present at “Sport and Solidarity”, scheduled for July 30 at the Teghil stadium: there will be no Jacobs after the injury in the United States

UDINE. There will be more than one hundred professional athletes including 14 world golds, 12 silvers and 13 bronzes already registered at the 33rd international meeting “Sport solidarity” which on Saturday 30 July will bring some Olympic stars, Paralympic boys, young promises to the Teghil stadium in Lignano Sabbiadoro. of the regional middle-distance and master.

The event, included in the circuit of the most important European events, was officially presented yesterday morning in the Pasolini room of the Udinese palace of the region by the patron of the event Giorgio Dannisi (New Athletics from Friuli) together with the regional councilor for sport Tiziana Gibelli, all ” councilor for tourism of the municipality of Lignano Massimo Brini, to the regional president of Fidal Massimo Di Giorgio, to Joan Lorenza representing the municipality of Udine, to Massimo Simeoni (Credit Agricole), to Luca Rossi (Chamber of Commerce) and to Ivano Minigutti (Madracs Udine). “It was not easy – explained Dannisi – to set up this 33rd meeting with all the problems related to the pandemic but we managed it anyway thanks to the support of many organizations and sponsors and an efficient operational staff”.

For his part, the regional councilor Gibelli highlighted «the resourcefulness of the organizers for being the first to bring together champions and athletes with disabilities because both make the same sacrifices to prepare and to compete. Sport is integration from every point of view ».

The edition promises to be of great appeal and interesting from a technical point of view, with the Jamaican starters coming from the world championships in Eugene (Oregon, USA).

On the Legnanese track, the Olympic champion of 100 meters and 4×100 meters Marcell Jacobs should have sprinted, who unfortunately was injured in Eugene.

The highlight of the evening will however be the 400 hurdles race that will award the winner the ninth trophy Ottavio Missoni, the famous Italian designer who competed in the London Olympics in 1940. Two “stars and stripes” champions will compete for it, David Kendziera who boasts a staff of 48”38 and Aldrich Bailey, vice world champion of the specialty.

Prominent are the speed races with the 30 year old Dutch Dafae Schippers, multiple world champion and personal 10 ” 81 in the 100. She will face the Jamaican Natasha Morrison, Cameron Wallace and Ckistal Slolej and with our best sprinters Giorgia Bellinazzi (Atletica Brugnera ) and Aurora Berton (Libertas Friùl Palmanova). On the 1,500 highly anticipated mid-distance blues, Nadia Battocletti from thirty and Sintayehu Vissa from Friuli, the latter a veteran of the American world championships where she ran the distance in 4’07”33, Yoyce Mattagliano from Trieste and Giulia Aprile from Sicily.

Athletes with disabilities will compete in the Special Olympics 50 meters.