La Spezia- Alice Mangione wins again. The pride of Niscemi shines again at the Italian Absolute Championships in La Spezia.
Fabbri’s shoulder, Sottile’s flight, Desalu’s roar: the Italian Absolute Championships in La Spezia are archived with a Sunday of confirmations and returns to the Centro Sportivo Montagna. The European champion Leonardo Fabbri sends the weight to 22.11, eighth success out of eight in the last two months, always over 22 meters. The most surprising result, however, is Stefano Sottile’s 2.30 in the high jump, moreover at his first attempt: it is a measurement that he has not jumped for five years, or rather since the Absolute Championships in Bressanone in 2019 when he exceeded 2.33. Today’s performance places him in eighth place in the world lists for the year.
Also in the spotlight is the Olympic relay champion Fausto Desalu who leads the 200 with 20.30 (+1.8), while in the women’s 200, the victory goes to Anna Bongiorni with a personal best equaled of 23.10 (+0.7). In the 400 meters, Edoardo Scotti has not run so fast since 2020: the Italian wins with 45.28 and Alice Mangione collects the triumph in the women’s with 51.57. Worthy of note is the return to the Italian 1500 title after 10 years for Federica Del Buono (4:05.14), who wore her only tricolor jersey in Rovereto in 2014. Among the men in the 1500, the dry change of Federico Riva (3:40.63) is fatal for the European bronze medalist Pietro Arese at the end of a tactical race (3:41.06). A problem with his left biceps denied Alessandro Sibilio the final: the 400m hurdles were won by Giacomo Bertoncelli (49.80), while Alice Muraro won the women’s event in 55.13.
In the 3000m steeplechase 8:21.00 for Yassin Bouih.
In the throws, the spotlight is on the European champion Sara Fantini (Carabinieri) who hasn’t lost in the hammer at the World Championships since 2017 considering summer and winter titles: on the fifth throw she reaches seventy meters with 71.32 and wins her 15th consecutive Italian title . After a year, the U20 world champion Rachele Mori (Fiamme Gialle) improves again, +2 centimeters on her personal best with 69.04. Cecilia Desideri (Aeronautics) leaps onto the podium with 60.65.
In the morning, titles of the 10 km walk for Valentina Trapletti (43:54) and Andrea Agrusti (39:55) both personal. Handle
