We are literally faced with a natural miracle of the loop the loopan authentic predestined gifted with boundless talent, the boy we have been waiting for a long time to dictate a role as great protagonists in the always fascinating 400 meters. Luca Sito had given a clear signal between Friday (fundamental fraction for winning the silver medal with the 4×400) and yesterday morning (45.12 walking in the final), but today he really showed off all his true potential and is entered a new dimension, illuminating the evening of the European Championships 2024 in athletics and warming up the audience at the Olympic Stadium in Rome.
The 21 year old from Milan has won the semi-final with the exceptional time of 44.75, improving the Italian record by two hundredths that Davide Re had printed on 30 June 2019 in La Chaux-de-Fonds and signing the best European performance of the season among the under 23s. A time to rub your eyes considering the age of our standard bearer and the wide margins for improvement, with this result we would have finished fifth at the last World Championships. Fluidity of running, lightness, agility, ease of execution are the strengths of a truly amazing young man and which gives us hope for the future, perhaps already in view of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Luca Sito, although tired from two laps of the track in the last 48 hours, left behind three highly rated opponents such as the Belgian Jonathan Sacoor (44.99, personal), the Hungarian Attila Molnar (45.04) and the Norwegian Havard Ingvaldsen ( 45.37). The student of Alessandro Simonelli, registered for Atletica Meneghina, he boasted a personal rating of 45.35 before this continental review and in the space of a weekend it improved by six tenths. Tomorrow evening we will see him again in the final: we will need to recover some energy for try to dream big at his first international appearance in athletics that counts.
Luca Sito set up a splendid race: he started very strong, managed the central part of the race well (passing in 21.53 at 200 metres), made a splendid turn (32.60 at 300) and then opened the turbo on the final straight, closed in a superb 12.15 despite getting a little stuck in the last fifteen metres.
The blue passed the round with the second half of the sessionthe best was signed by the British Charles Dobson, author of an excellent 44.65 in the second semi-final. Behind our standard bearer the Belgians Alexander Doom (44.87, winner of the third semi-final) and Jonathan Sacoor (44.99). Also in the final were the German Jean Paul Bredau (45.03), the aforementioned Molnar, the Dutch Liemarvin Bonevacia (45.17) and the Swiss Lionel Spitz (45.28). Edoardo Scotti eliminated: fifth in the third semifinal in 45.92.
