TALLINN (ESTONIA)
Samantha Zago among the best eight athletes of the Continent in the 400 meters flat. Yesterday in Tallin, Estonia, the rider from Trevisatletica raced the final of the lap, finishing in eighth place with a time of 53’57 ”. The performance of the 22-year-old from Quinto was extraordinary, who in the semifinals had won the pass for the final round, with a time of 53’48 ”, 4/100 from her staff, making her the best of the Italians. But the European adventure, for Zago, is not over yet: the pupil of coach Mauro Franzero today will also take to the track in the 4×400 relay. Also today final in the 3000 steeplechase for Giovanni Gatto, middle-distance runner of Us Quercia Trentingrana, also from Quinto, who on Friday finished fifth in his battery with a time of 8’45”56 (bringing his staff closer by a cent). Fulvio Maleville’s pupil (supported for some months also by Lionello Bettin) was the author of a good technical test, with a careful race conduct and a tactic that saw him always stay in the leading positions. –