Golden Gala: super Tamberi, jump 2.33 and touch 2.36. Fabbri good in weight: 21.71

Gianmarco Tamberi finishes third in the high jump competition in the Golden Gala held at the Ridolfi stadium in Florence: the blue has exceeded the measure of 2.33 on the third attempt, tearing up the previous best personal performance of the season (2.20). Three errors, on the other hand, at 2.36 (but with the last attempt just barely) in the race won by Ilya Ivanyuk in front of Brandon Starc.

Record

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In the evening the second place of Davide Re stands out on 400 meters with 45 ”80, preceded only by the Colombian Anthony José Zambrano (44” 76). Puerto Rican Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, running the 100 obstacles in 12 ”38, instead dropped the oldest record of the Golden Gala (the most prestigious athletics meeting in Italy which has been named after Pietro Mennea since 2013), improving by just a cent on 12 ”39 run on 5 August 1980 at the Olympic stadium in Rome by the then Soviet Vera Komisova. On the 1500 meters success for the Dutch Sifan Hassan who, after having seen the world record of the 10,000 meters removed from just 48 hours, set in 3’53 ”63, best world performance of the year and record of the Golden Gala. Second was the Kenyan Faith Kipyegon at the national record with 3’53 ”91.

Blacksmiths

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The Italian Leonardo Fabbri finished in third place the shot put competition won by the New Zealander Tomas Walsh. In his Florence, Fabbri obtained the best measure of the evening with 21.71 meters but in the three final throws he could not do better than 20.89. The Diamond League formula provides that the victory is awarded to the pitcher who gets the longest pitch in the three final throws. For this reason Walsh won with 21.47 meters ahead of the Croatian Armin Sinancevic with 21.60. in the long jump instead Larissa Iapichino finished sixth with 6.45, obtained at the first jump).

Award to Coe

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In the 100 men’s floors, without Marcell Jacobs recovering from an injury, the South African Simbine won with 10.08, ahead of Ujah and Matadi. In the 110 men’s hurdles, the Jamaican McLeod scored the best performance of the season with 13.01. Best performance of the year (8’08 “54) also for the Moroccan El Bakkali in the 3000 men’s steeplechase, in the race where the Azzurri Ahmed Abdelwahed (8’12” 04) and Osama Zoghlami (8’14 ” 29), and for the Dutch Hassan in 1500 women (3’53 “63). In the 200 women domination of the British Asher-Smith with 22.06, in a race where the Italian Dalia Kaddari established her personal best with 22.86. Some national records have also been retouched: Femke Bol’s 53 “44 in the women’s 400 hurdles is the new Dutch record, and the times of the Kenyan Faith Kipyegon (3’51” 91) and the Belgian Elise Vanderelst (4 ‘) are records in the 1500 women 02 “63). In the evening in Florence there was space for an award to Sebastian Coe, now president of the Iaaf, and exactly 40 years ago world record holder of the 800 meters with his 1’41” 73 established in the Tuscan capital. .