LUCCA. The Moreno Martini athletics field will be a venue for international events. The facility in via delle tagliate, with an ad hoc look and setting for the event, hosts the Italiana Assicurazioni International Meeting City of Lucca. An important event for athletics given that it is an integral part of the Wolrd Athletics Continental Tour for the year 2024. Important names in athletics will be on the track. 165 protagonists in various disciplines from all five continents and 37 different nations. The first challenges will be held on Sunday 19 May at 5pm and will continue until the evening. Great anticipation for the men’s 100 meters, a speed race that will take place on the track Oshane Bailey, of the South African Tsebo Matoso, Adam Gemili (Great Britain) and of Omar McLeod (Jamaica). The latter will naturally also be involved in the 110 hurdles, a competition from which he is fresh off his success with the time trial (Savona meeting). The travel time was 13 seconds and 37 tenths. There will be also Maxcel I love Manu, Italian of African origins, who boasts a Paralympic world championship in both the 100 and 200 meters in the Paris 2023 competition.
Racing in the Lucca circuit for the 110 hurdles and battling Omar Mc Leod, who boasts a gold medal at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and a world title obtained in London the following year, there will be Hassane Fofana And Gabriel Constantine. The first, who will race with Italian colours, is the semi-finalist at the 2023 world championships held in Bucharest, the second, a Brazilian national, boasts a gold in 2022 and a silver in 2021 in the challenges held at the Martini in Lucca. Waiting for weight enthusiasts to see it in action Leonardo Fabbri who in Savona achieved the Italian record of 22.95, surpassing the previous record of Alessandro Andrei which had stood for 37 years. With Fabbri there is Kyle Blignaut (under 20 world champion in 2018 and sixth at the Tokyo Olympics). In the long jump there will be an opportunity to see the South Africans at work Ruswahl Samaai And Fearful Masikanethe Czech Radek Yuska and the Indian Jeswion Aldrin and blue Filippo Randazzo. For the javelin, the favorites are the German Thomas Rohler – Olympic champion in Rio de Janeiro 2016 and third best javelin thrower of all time – the two Poles Cyprian Mrzyglod And David Wegnerthe South African Rocco Van Rooyen and Italian Roberto Orlando. The Sports Councilor Fabio Barsanti underlined the great logistical and organizational effort of Atletica Virtus Lucca, with the great commitment made by the directors of the meeting Matteo Martinelli And Paolo Traversi, creators of having put together an event of absolute value for the depth of the participants and for the many realities represented. Also present at the presentation were the vice president of Virtus, Sergio Martinelli, the two meeting directors Matteo Martinelli and Paolo Traversi, the councilor of the Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca Foundation, Luca Marchi, ithe marketing manager of Italiana Assicurazioni, Andrea Violante and athletes Omar McLeod, Simone Bertelli And Pieroni idea. L
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