Lorenzo Simonelli started the outdoor season with a bang and has signed the Italian record in the 110 hurdles, among other things with 0.4 m/s of headwind. The young talent from Lazio exalted himself at Nancy meetingrunning an excellent 1.21pm and taking six cents off the old record signed three years ago in Rovereto by Paolo Dal Molin. The 21-year-old, who in the winter had won the silver medal in the 60 hurdles at the Indoor World Championships (with an attached national record of 7.43), has adjusted its staff by twelve cents course in the past competitive year.
Lorenzo Simonelli also signed the minimum for the Paris 2024 Olympics (set at 13.27) and placed himself in second place in the seasonal European lists, just one hundredth behind the Belgian Michael Obasuyi (13.20 last week). His race in France was spectacular: he took off like a spring (reaction time of 0.169), after four barriers he was already clearly ahead, he showed fast and powerful action, he annihilated a luxury competition led by the Polish Damian Czykier (13.38) and the Jamaican Omar McLeod (13.45 for the Rio 2016 Olympic Champion), she won in a peremptory manner.
This is the same time run by the absolute master Grant Holloway with 1.4 m/s of breeze in his face, i.e. the sixth world time of the season. The world lead is in the hands of the American Daniel Roberts (13.11). Our standard bearer can look at the future with extreme optimism European Championships in Romenow only a couple of weeks away and where Simonelli will be one of the symbolic faces of the Bel Paese together with Marcell Jacobs, Gianmarco Tamberi, Mattia Furlani, Leonardo Fabbri, Zaynab Dosso, Larissa Iapichino.
The margins for improvement seem to be boundless for Giorgio Frinolli’s pupil, who has all it takes to dream even in view of the Games: at this point there are no limits and the feeling is that the 13.21 can be significantly lowered. His physical form seems to be excellent, after the physical problems that had held him back in recent weeks and which had convinced him to give up the Savona Meeting.
