International meeting City of Savona kicks off with 61 Olympic Medals

Savona is ready for an afternoon of great entertainment. Tomorrow, Wednesday 15 May, from 3.50 pm to 6.50 pm at the “Giulio Ottolia” multi-sports complex (and live on RAI), the 13th International meeting City of SavonaChallenger stage of the World Athletics Tour which will bring athletes from 24 different countries to Fontanassa: the participants, in the cast set up by the organizing director Marco Mura and Atletica Savona, will ideally wear 11 five-ring medals around their necks (four gold, three silver and four bronze medals between the Olympics and Paralympics) and 50 world medals (11 gold, 18 silver and 21 bronze between the overall and youth events).

The sprint will still provide thrills with world-class competitions, with a men’s 100m with the American Trayvon Bromell, who arrived in Savona on Sunday and is ready to chase the first blitz under 10 seconds of the season. Then there will be the Azzurri, with three veterans of medals at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow (Scotland). Leonardo Fabbribronze in the shot put, recently came close to Alessandro Andrei’s historic Italian record with 22.88, achieving the best measurement by a European in the last 35 years: in Savona he will throw on a platform that has often given him great satisfaction. Mattia Furlanithe “golden boy” of the long blue silver in Glasgow, will return to the competition in the meeting that last year saw him land (albeit with a pinch too many favorable winds) above the Under 20 world record. And also Zaynab Dossothird indoors in the 60m world championship, will once again be in the blocks in the 100m on the track where she improved in 2022. Unfortunately, due to injury, Lorenzo Simonelli will not be in the cast of the 110m hurdles: in his place will be a high-profile Spanish specialist like Enrique Llopis, fourth at the last Indoor World Championship. Great attention on the technical level on the women’s 400m: Keely Hodgkinson, one of the best nineteenth-century runners in the world (Olympic and world silver), will try her hand at the lap of the track. And it will be to build an ideal “bridge” from Savona to the Paris Games Ambra SabatiniParalympic champion of the 100m in Tokyo competing in the sprint: she will be the Italian standard-bearer in France.

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