Mattia Furlani is long jumping world champion

Mattia Furlani is long jumping world champion. The blue, 20 years old, Roman, conquered the gold medal with 8.30 meters, a measure obtained at the second jump after committing the first. Furlani, Olympic bronze in Paris, last year had conquered indoor world champion and two weeks ago European silver always indoors.

Silver to the Jamaican Wayne Pinnock with 8.29, bronze at the Australian Liam Adcock with 8.28.

One jump at a time and Mattia Furlani has risen to the roof of the world of leap in the long run. Mattia, Portacolori delle Fiamme Oro, on the Nanjing Cube platform of Nanchino in China played an excellent race, touching his national record by just seven centimeters.

At the second jump, the blue has in fact ‘killed’ the race by forcing the others to do extraordinary. The beat axis is perfect – he left only 2.5 centimeters – and with a very fast entry speed (38.30 kilometers), Furlani with three and a half steps in the air was landed at 8.30. In the rear the struggle to conquer the podium and try to overcome the Italian.

In the fourth jump, the jump of Pinnock put the chills but his jump was measured only one centimeter less than that of Mattia who a few moments later he replied with 8.28 giving as many as 16.1 centimeters in the beaten.

Bitter in the mouth for Leonardo Fabbri, fourth in the weight jet with 21.36. At the last round the blue was overcome by the American Roger Steen who launched 21.62. Gold at the New Zealand Tom Walsh, twice covered world champion (2016 and 2018), capable of 21.65 at the first launch. Bronze to the other US Adrian Pyperi (21.48).

Furlani: “Dreamed and desired gold, it’s incredible”

“I won an inch, but this is sport. It is the gold that I dreamed and desired, I believed until the end I can compete among the best in the world and I did it, it’s incredible”. These are the words of the new indoor world champion of the long jump Mattia Furlani. The twenty -year -old blue lengthr in Nanchino in China wrote an important page of history for Italian athletics. No Italian ever in previous nineteen editions had risen to the roof of the world of leap in the long run. In the past, the silver of Furlani last year in Glasgow, and the bronzes of Giovanni Evangelisti (1985, 1987, 1991) and Andrew Howe (2006). The three Ori of Fiona May, two outdoors (1995, 2001) and one indoors (1997) should be counted.

“The 8.30 jump was beautiful – added Furlani, athlete of the Fiamme Oro who in his bulletin board boasts Under 18 gold both in the upper and long (2022), the European gold under 20 in the long (2023), silver the outdoor Europeans in Rome and the bronze at the Paris games in 2024 – For me it is something out of the normal, an honor to be the first blue of a gold in a world but still there Do”.

Then he dedicates her to the mother-breaker Khaty Seck. “We know, me and me, the tears paid to Apeldoorn because that day I was worth more than silver – said Mattia -. Now we are here at a worldwide worldwide and I want to enjoy it. At the World Cup (outdoors, ed.) Of September in Tokyo we go to dream again, with the same tenacity, to do better”