Leonardo Fabbri will make his return to the competition on Thursday 20 June, when he will be busy at Bydgoszcz (Poland) in a stage of the World Continental Tour (gold level, the second international traveling athletics circuit). The fresh European shot put championcapable of throwing the tool 22.45 meters at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, chose this event to regain confidence with the platform in a competitive competition and continue his march towards the Paris 2024 Olympics.
The Tuscan champion, who set a resounding Italian record a month ago (22.95 meters in Savona), is ever closer to the 23 meter wall and is experiencing an excellent state of form. The vice world champion will be chasing yet another strong performance challenging several continental rivals such as the Polish Michal Haratyk, the British Scott Lincoln, the Czech Tomas Stanek and the other host Konrad Bukowiecki.
Never below 22.40 in the six matches from 1 May to today (with the exception of the qualification in Rome in which it was enough to place the weight at 21.10), the Italian is currently at second place in the world lists of the yearbehind the American Joe Kovacs (23.13) waiting to see the world record holder Ryan Crouser at work at the Olympic Trials (for the moment the master of the specialty is stuck at 22.80 metres).
