Three golds and two silvers in athletics, it’s a record-breaking Italy

The Italy ofathletics centers a new one recordthat of medals conquered to World Indoor Championships. The blue team a Toruńin Polandcloses the medal table al third place (never in the previous twenty editions such a high position) with ben five medals, three times (never happened) e two silvers.

The medal table was won for the fourteenth time by the United States, this time with 18 medals (5 gold, 7 silver, 6 bronze) ahead of Great Britain with 4, but all gold. Behind Italy, Ukraine with 3 podiums (2 gold, one silver). The memorable edition for our colors saw us climb to the roof of the world Zaynab Dosso in the 60 meters, Nadia Battocletti in the 3000 meters e Andy Diaz In the triple jump.

Double silver in long jump, Larissa Iapichino e Mattia Furlani. For the first time in a World Championship in 41 editions (20 outdoors and 21 indoors), the Italian team won three times(at most there had been two so far. Furthermore, for the first time they arrived at the indoor world championship two titles on the same day (Battocletti and Dosso). Only once at the World Championships, but outdoors, had there been a day with two golds, in Gothenburg on 6 August 1995 with Michele Didoni in the 20 km walk and Fiona May (Larissa Iapichino’s mother) in the long run.

Larissa Iapichino

Larissa Iapichinoobtained second place with the measurement of 6.87 meters jumped on the sixth and final jump. Gold to the Portuguese Agate De Sousa with 6.92. Bronze to the Colombian Natalia Linares with 6.80. There Florentine jumper he started the competition with decidedly low measurements, 6.49, then 6.69, then zero and 6.66, but on the fifth jump he placed the paw of the ‘tiger’ landing at 6.84. Portuguese De Sousa then regained first place by jumping 6.92. At the last series of jumps, the sixth, the standard bearer of the Gold Flames it improves but ‘only’ by five centimeters for a 6.87 which is worth an excellent argento. On Larissa’s bulletin board there are alreadyindoor continental gold last year in Apeldoorn with 6.94, thesilver at the European Championships in Rome 2024together with theEuropean gold under 23 of 2023. At Paris 2024 Olympics she came fourth with 6.87.

Larissa, “end of the curse”

“I thought I had a sort of curse with the World Championships because something always happened but today, despite my usual ‘larissas’, I finally managed to achieve this goal: it was close to the gold”, she commentedLarissa Iapichino after conquering the silver medal In the long jump. “It was close to the gold but all in all I liked the second part of the race and I fought – added the 23-year-old Italian jumper, 29 years after her mother’s success Fiona May a Paris 1997 – I’m not an early riser and I had to try to adapt: ​​on the first jump I was too low, on the second far away, on the third nothing and I told myself to wake up. Here at Toruń I debuted in Absolute national team to 2021 European Indoor Championships and until now I have had a complicated relationship with this area, I am happy to have made peace with it.”

Mattia Furlani

Mattia Furlani he conquered the silver medal In the long jump saltando 8.39 meters, personal best equaled. Gold medal to the Portuguese Gerson Balde capable of taking flight on the sixth and final jump, landing at 8,46, best world performance of the year. Bronze to the Bulgarian Bozhidar Saraboyukov con 8,31.

Furlani21 years old, originally from Marino, at the ‘Toruń Arena’ of the same name city Polish in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, conquered his third medal at the world championship in the hall. Previously, he had hit theargento a Glasgow 2024 with 8.22 and last year he graduated in Nanjing sample with 8.30. For the long distance runner Gold Flames a race that started a little quietly, 8.16 on the first jump, then 8.25 on the second, nil on the third and 8.23 ​​on the fourth. At the end of the fifth and penultimate series, the blue was in command of the race but at the sixth jump, the Portuguese Baldé26 years old from the Algarve and never medaled in any international event, guessed the run-up and the platform to score 8.46.

Mattia, “the objective was to confirm the title”

“It’s great considering that the last few weeks haven’t been easy for me, when I think that I was coming back from a bout of flu and that last night I felt sick twice. I did an excellent job but at the same time there are still many things to work on”. This is the comment of Mattia Furlani, vice champion of the indoor world long jump at the end of the race. The Roman long jumper of the Fiamme Oro, gold last year in China, then added, “the objective was to confirm myself and defend the title, there is no point in hiding it, but each race is different and in that jump, if I had gained more centimeters on the platform, I would have been on 8.50 metres” and revealed, “I am now ready for certain measures that become the goal for the outdoor season.”

Furlani’s personal best is 8.39 metres, a measurement which is the national indoor record but third all time outdoors after Andrew Howe’s 8.47 (30 August 2007) and Giovanni Evangelisti’s 8.43 (16 May 1987). In Torun, Mattia obtained the fourth podium at the World Championships between outdoors and indoors, two golds in 2025, outdoors in Tokyo and indoors in Nanjing, and the indoor silver in Glasgow in 2024 without forgetting the Olympic bronze in Paris 2024.