Extraordinary feat for the Azzurri with Patta, Desalu and Jacobs from Oristano who win another game queen of the Games
TOKYO. Immense Italy in 4×400: Filippo Tortu, Marcell Jacobs, Lorenzo Patta and Fausto Desalu win the gold medal. Another historic feat for Italian athletics. Tenth gold medal for the Italian expedition to the Games but very heavy. The Italian quartet ran the perfect race stopping the chronometers on the extraordinary time of 37 “50, crumbling the Italian record of 37” 95 recorded here in Tokyo.
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Lorenzo Patta, Marcell Jacobs, Eseosa Desalu and Filippo Tortu: you are the men of the LEGEND ????????????????????#HomeOfTheOlympics | #Tokyo2020 | #ItaliaTeam | #Athleticspic.twitter.com/r7hTMzYrT1— Eurosport IT (@Eurosport_IT) August 6, 2021
Fantastic race with synchronous changes: departure from Oristano Lorenzo Patta, born at the school of the Sardinian athletics guru Francesco Garau, change with Marcell Jacobs who literally devoured the track before handing over the baton to Faustino Desalu, also author of a nice fraction, so the last change maybe a bit squashed but still good. Tortu started behind Mitchell Blake but the launch of the Sardinian Lombard is now a textbook of athletics, to be seen and reviewed by young people who begin to run this difficult discipline. In short, Tortu reassembled meter after meter and plunged into gold scoring the time of 37 “50, one cent less than the British, beaten as Italy in football did at the European Championships.
Tortu put his hands in his hair almost in disbelief, but then the scoreboard confirmed: Italy Olympic champion !! Behind, after Great Britain, third place for De Grasse’s Canada with 37 “70, China fourth for changes made on the computer but not enough to get on the podium with 37” 79 (national record). Then after Jamaica at 37 “84 and Germany 38” 12, Japan and Ghana did not qualify.
The gold of Filippo Tortu, his father was born in Tempio, and of Lorenzo Patta, from Oristano, comes 57 years after the double Sardinian success of the other Japanese Olympics, those of Tokyo in 1964. Then the boxer Fernando Atzori and the knight Paolo Angioni. This is the sixth and seventh Olympic gold for the Sardinians after the three of the gymnasts Loi and Mastromarino between 1912 and 1920 and the two in 1964.