Leonardo Fabbri aa Bydgoszcz – Photo Lukasz Szelag
Leonardo Fabbri continues to surpass 22 with extreme ease. Tonight, however, the worst throw (21.54) would have been enough to win the shot put competition anyway. Memorial Irena Szewinska from Bydgoszcz, Gold stage of the Continental Tour. In Poland as the reigning European champion, the Italian wins by a landslide with 22.38 scored on the penultimate attempt, in a final which also saw him throw at 22.03 and 22.28. For Fabbri there is also the satisfaction of the new meeting record (22.32 set by host Michał Haratyk in 2019, the previous record). The Jamaican Rajindra Campbell (2nd, 21.22) and the British Scott Lincoln (3rd, 21.02) are clearly behind. Italian victory also in the men’s 1500. It’s the one who takes the stage Federico Riva who wins in 3:36.87 ahead of the Dutch U23 European champion, Stefan Nillessen (3:37.03) and his compatriot Ossama Meslekwho runs 3:37.37.
In the women’s 1500 m final, a sixth and seventh place was achieved Ludovica Cavalli and Marta Zenoni. The former confirms the Olympic standard in 4:02.05, while the latter enjoys her new personal best with an improvement of two and a half seconds running in 4:03.00. The winner is the Ethiopian Freweyni Hailu (3:58.59) ahead of the Australian Linden Hall (3:58.96). In the 400 hurdles Alice Muraro closes in third place with 55.68, while Rebecca Sartori she was fifth in 56.30 in a final won by the Czech Nikoleta Jichova in 55.43, ahead of the South African Zeney Geldenhuys (55.51). Third place also for Arianna De Masi in 11.47 (+0.4) in the 100 meters won by New Zealand’s Zoe Hobbs with 11.17. Good performance for Simone Barontini who in the 800m finished in fifth place with the seasonal time of 1:45.11. Victory for the Swede Andreas Kramer: his 1:44.08 is worth the personal and meeting record.
