He wrote history in Tokyo, added another great page in Zurich. After the Olympic gold in Japan, Gianmarco Tamberi is the first Italian ever to win the diamond of the Wanda Diamond League, the highest world track in athletics. The Olympic champion in the high jump triumphs in the final of the Letzigrund stadium with the measure of 2.34 and drives the audience crazy with an extraordinary show, on and off the platform: a driver with few equals in world athletics.
The jumper of the Gold Flames, who after the triumph to celebrate pulls the Tokyo gold medal out of a bag, puts it around his neck and, wrapped in a tricolor, goes to take photos and selfies with the public, is perfect up to 2.30, with all the odds passed at the first test, then resorts to the second attempt to pass 2.32 and also takes a superlative 2.34 at the second assault. Thus Tamberi, in addition to the trophy created by the famous jeweler Beyer, an institution in Zurich, also takes home the 30 thousand dollars of prize money and will close the season in first place in the world ranking, overtaking the Belarusian Nedasekau (bronze in Tokyo) and meanwhile at ‘Weltklasse’ receives the applause of all the other big names in the world, during and after his jumps. But not only of the other champions, but also of the competent and passionate Zurich public, who peels off their hands for Gimbo at every jump. Then, after the show on the platform with the success at 2.34, the selfies, the hugs, the race with the diamond in your hands begin. Nobody had won it yet, among the Italians, but now the taboo is broken. Tamberi also becomes the fourth to win his race at the Zurich meeting after Cova, Panetta and Donato.
But in Zurich there is also a show in the auction, with the usual Duplantis who wins and then fails the three attempts at the world record with 6.19, while in the women’s field the Russian Anzhelika Sidorova, world champion in Doha, Olympic silver in Tokyo, becomes the fourth woman in history to exceed five meters, imposing herself with 5.01 on the Letzigrund platform. Two 9.87 and 10.65 shells in the 100 meters, where Fred Kerley (United States) and Elaine Thompson-Herah (Jamaica) leave no chance for rivals in the sprint. The Olympic silver Kerley, who in the last update overtook the blue Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs in first place in the world ranking, is the king of the Diamond with a masterful sprint, against a wind of -0.4: beaten the Canadian Andre De Grasse who equalized the staff at 9.89 and the American Ronnie Baker (9.91). Trayvon Bromell (9.96) was also under ten seconds. Ninth Yupun Abeykoon (10.25), the Sinhalese of Atletica Futura Roma. Among the jet women, the success in the Diamond League completes the fabulous season of the Jamaican Thompson three times gold in Tokyo: in the last thirty meters, with a time that had never been run in Zurich (10.65 / + 0.6), she runs away to the British Dina Asher-Smith (10.87) and the Swiss Ajla Del Ponte (10.93).
In the triple jump the Emilian carabiniere Tobia Bocchi smiles, who places fourth and congratulates the Portuguese gold medalist from Tokyo Pedro Pichardo, author of a splendid 17.7, winner today in front of Hugues Fabrice Zango (Burkina Faso, 17.20) and at the Algerian Yasser Triki (17.03). On the night of the Weltklasse he does not betray Paolo Dal Molin (Fiamme Oro). The Italian record holder of 110 hs is fifth in the final of the maximum circuit, with a time of 13.43 to crown a season that brought him back to high international levels, with the bronze gem of the Euroindoor. The American Devon Allen wins, fourth in the Games.