On the last day of competitions of the European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy won a gold in the men’s 4×100, a silver in the long jump and another in the men’s 4×400, a bronze in the men’s 1500 meters
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First in the medal table with 24 podiums and eleven golds: just over a month from Paris Olympics the AzzurriItalian athletics dominate in all disciplines at the European Athletics Championships. Six days of emotions worth a… podium recordexactly double the previous one dating back to Split ’90.
To add to the medals won at the Olympic stadium since 7 June, those of the sixth and final day: a gold in the men’s 4×100, a silver in the long jump and another in the men’s 4×400, a bronze in the men’s 1500 meters.
The new generation of Italian athletics
FromEthiopia to Tanzania, from Romania to Ivory Coastthe shades of the tricolor of the “new” Italy of athletics are many, all traveling towards Paris where the Olympic Games will begin on 26 July.
The stories of Multi-ethnic blues they have been in the spotlight since the European athletics bowed to the Italian records just achieved in Rome. Among the Made in Italy talents Marcell Jacobsborn in El Paso, Texas, to an Italian mother and an American father, gold in the 100 meters and in the 4X100 relay, in Yeman Crippaoriginally from north-eastern Ethiopia and adopted by a Milanese couple, gold in the half marathon. Lorenzo Ndele Simonelliborn in Tanzania to an Italian father and a Tanzanian mother, gold in the 110 meters hurdles, Chituru Aliborn in Italy to a Nigerian mother and Ghanaian father, raised in Como in the care of the Mottin family, silver in the 100 meters. Mattia Furlanisilver in the long jump, son of a high athlete father and an Italian sprinter mother of Senegalese origins.
After the success at home the new young Italians are ready to conquer the four Olympic ringsdirection Paris.
The medal table of the European Athletics Championships
- ITALY: 11 gold, 9 silver, 4 bronze – Total: 24
- FRANCE: 4 gold, 6 silver, 7 bronze – Total: 16
- GREAT BRITAIN: 4 gold, 4 silver, 5 bronze – Total: 13
- NORWAY: 4 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze – Total: 6
- SWISS: 4 gold, 1 silver, 4 bronze – Total: 9
- HOLLAND: 3 gold, 4 silver, 5 bronze – Total: 12
- BELGIUM: 3 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze – Total: 6
- SPAIN: 2 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze – Total: 8
- POLAND: 2 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze – Total: 6
- IRELAND: 2 gold, 2 silver – Total: 4
