Rome 2024: the golden Tuscans Fabbri, Meucci, Chiappinelli.
Rome 2024, the golden Tuscans Fabbri, Meucci, Chiappinelli champions of Europe.
Leonardo Fabbri, vice world champion, he is the first Italian to win gold in the history of weightlifting at the European championships. A triumph for the champion from Bagno a Ripoli, Italian record holderwhich at 10.45pm is European champion in Rome with record of the European championships. Over a meter behind Fabbri, who also scored a 22.12 on the second throw, the second place was the defending champion Filip Mihaljevic with 21.10. Polish Michal Haratyk was third with 20.94.
Daniel MeucciPisan engineer from Cascina, 39 years old in October, record holder of blue shirts in Italy at the European Championships in Rome and the Sienese Yohanes Chiappinelli are European champions in teams. In the half marathon with an Italian double Yeman Crippa gold medal and Pietro Riva silver medal.
The roar of the Olimpico in Rome all for them.
Fabbri’s happiness: “I finally won something after silvers and bronzes! In the warm-up I had a bit of cramps, the test launches weren’t good, but in the race I did the simple things and had fun. The goal is to fight with the Americans and to beat the Americans I had to win this European Championship, even if I hoped to do more.”
The big hug with his Italian rival friend Zane Weir, also like Fabbri coached by Paolo Dal Soglio, who manages to reach the final despite the recent ankle injury: “Leonardo is history”
Italy wins everything in the men’s half marathon European Championships in Rome. Extraordinary performance by the Azzurri, protagonists of absolute domination with two golds and a silver. Yeman triumphs Crippa which extends to the entrance of the Olympic stadium and wins with 1h01:03 over 21.097 kilometres. A new success for the Trentino champion, multiple Italian record holder, with his second continental title after the one two years ago in the 10,000 on the track. But we celebrate the double thanks to a fantastic Pietro shore: the Piedmontese managed to place second with 1h01:04, overtaking the German Amanal Petros in the sprint on the final straight, 1h01:07 for the bronze. Italy wins the team gold thanks to the decisive sixth place of Pasquale from Puglia Selvarolo in 1h01:27, Eyob was also in the top ten Faniel eighth (1h01:29) and Yohanes Chiappinelli tenth (1h01:42), then 27th Daniele Meucci (1h03:45)
