From Jacobs’ 100 meters to Battocletti’s brace, all the blues screamed of joy
At the end of the European Athletics Championships in Rome, the medal table sees Italy triumph: 24 medals for the Azzurri, an absolute record. Here’s the detail.
11 gold: 100m (Jacobs), 110 hurdles (Simonelli), half marathon (Crippa), team half marathon, high jump (Tamberi), shot put (Fabbri), 5,000 women (Battocletti), 10,000 women (Battocletti), 20 km women’s walk (Palmisano), women’s hammer (Fantini), 4×100 m (Melluzzo, Jacobs, Patta, Tortu)
9 silvers 100 m (Ali), 200 m (Tortu), 400 m (Sibilio), half marathon (Riva), long (Furlani), 4×400 m (Sito, Aceti, Meli, Scotti), 20 km women’s walk (Trapletti), long women (Iapichino), 4×400 mixed (Sito, Polinari, Scotti, Mangione)
4 bronzes 800 m (Tecuceanu), 1,500 m (Arese), 20 km walk (Fortunato), 100 women (Dosso)
France 16 (4 gold, 5 silver, 7 bronze); Great Britain 13 (4, 4, 5); Norway 7 (4, 2, 1); Switzerland 9 (4, 1, 4); Holland 12 (3, 4, 5); Belgium 6 (3, 1, 2); Spain 8 (2, 3, 3); Poland 6 (2, 2, 2), Ireland 4 (2, 2, 0); Germany 10 (1, 3, 6); Ukraine 6 (1, 1, 4); Austria 2 (1, 1, 0); Croatia 2 (1, 1, 0); Greece 2 (1, 1, 0); Sweden 2 (1, 0, 1); Czech Rep., Estonia, Slovenia 1 (1, 0, 0); Serbia 2 (0, 2, 0); Portugal 3 (0, 1, 2); Israel, Romania, Slovakia, Türkiye, Hungary 1 (0, 1, 0); Lithuania and Finland 1 (0, 0, 1)
