Tonight they will conclude 2024 European Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, where Italy wants to give itself the ultimate satisfaction of a truly extraordinary edition and for the moment peppered with ten golds and twenty medals in total. First place in the medal table is already in the safe, but we will try to put the icing on the cake: the relay races could provide great satisfaction. In addition to the 4×100 by Marcell Jacobs and Filippo Tortu, the 4×400.
On the men’s front you want to dream big with Luca Sito and Alessandro Sibilio. The Milanese was lined up at the launch after having won silver in the 4×400 mixed race and having set the Italian track lap record (44.75 in the semi-final, then fifth place in the final round where he paid for the tiredness of so many races) , while the Campanian will run the last fraction after having won silver in the 400 hurdles with the national record of 47.50 (improved on Fabrizio Mori’s historic performance). In the middle space a Vladimir Vinegars (always very solid in the relay) and others Edoardo Scotti (also silver in the mixed and stopped in the semi-final in the individual event).
Among women, however, the absence of Ayomide Folorunso stands out. The Italian record holder in the 400 hurdles will not be in the match, she will focus a lot on it Anna Polinari and Alice Mangione (both silver with the mixed), which were respectively entrusted with third and fourth fraction after the launch of Ilaria Accame and the second round of Giancarla Trevisan.
ITALY 4X400 FORMATIONS IN THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FINAL
MEN’S 4X400: Luca Sito, Vladimir Aceti, Edoardo Scotti, Alessandro Sibilio.
WOMEN’S 4X400: Ilaria Accame, Giancarla Trevisan, Anna Polinari, Alice Mangione.
