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Athletics, the first day with the results of the Azzurri: good Battocletti and Tamberi

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FROM THE ENCOUNTER IN TOKYO. It is the Italy of women. Even in athletics where the blue is the protagonist Nadia Battocletti who qualified for the 5,000 meters final at the Tokyo Games. Thirty, 21 years old, Battocletti finished his battery in third place with a super time: with 14’55 “78 he improved his personal by three seconds, giving himself direct qualification to the final. The Trentino middle-distance runner has practically built the perfect race , facing the elimination round at the Olympic Stadium like a veteran. Dosing her energy, she unleashed a last lap in less than a minute finishing practically arm in arm with third and thus qualifying directly for the final but practically arm in arm with the Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay (14: 55.74) and the Kenyan Hellen Obiri (14: 55.77), two champions of the distance. The Italian has the eleventh overall time among the qualifiers for the final (the best is the Dutch Sifan Hassan with 14’47 “89 ) which is scheduled for Monday 2 August at 2.40 pm (Italian time).

Nothing to do, however, for the other blue Dariya Derkasch in the triple jump. The Salerno closes the qualifications with a 13.90 meters which is not enough, however, to go to the final: a 14.21 is needed, which is not entirely impossible. No Olympic final even for the Italian relay in the mixed 4×400. The Italian quartet made up of Edoardo Scotti, Alice Mangione, Rebecca Borga and Vladimir Aceti finished their battery in fifth place, in 3’13 “51: despite setting the new Italian record, it remains out of the final.

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The first day of athletics ended with the awarding of the first medals. As usual, the Olympic program is opened from ten thousand meters and the victory went to the Ethiopian Selemon Barega, who preceded the Ugandans Joshua Cheptegei and Jacob Kiplimo. The blue Yeman Crippa he finished in eleventh place. His race was fair, almost always in the group that chased first the Ugandan Kissa, who suddenly stopped after having been a hare for six kilometers out of ten, and then the Ethiopians. «I was expecting a whole other race, but it was tearing – declared Crippa immediately after the arrival -. In this type of tactical competition I have to learn to manage myself a little more. Too bad it will be all experience for the five thousand meters ».

A sigh of relief came in the morning heats. Gianmarco Tamberi he managed to remove the ticket to participate in the high jump final, five years after the lost dream of competing in Rio de Janeiro. The 29-year-old athlete from the Marche qualified by overcoming the 2.28 mark together with 12 other finalists with the judges who decided to push ahead all those who had missed the Italian measure. The final is scheduled for Sunday 1st August, at 12.10 Italian time.

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