(ANSA) – ROME, 05 SEPTEMBER – Leonardo Fabbri takes second place in the shot put and the fourth consecutive ‘podium’ in the Wanda Diamond League, Mattia Furlani and Ayomide Folorunso join him in the final scheduled in Brussels on Friday 13 and Saturday 14: these are the verdicts of the Weltklasse in Zurich, the penultimate stage of the world’s top circuit, the last one that offered points for the weekend that awards the Diamonds. On a rainy and cold evening, with the thermometer at 17 degrees, Fabbri throws at 21.86 on a wet platform, beaten only by Olympic champion Ryan Crouser (USA, 22.66) and once again conquers a placing among the top three, as already happened in the previous stages of London, Chorzow and Rome. In the long jump, Olympic bronze medalist Furlani is fifth with 7.91 (-0.3), Ayomide Folorunso is also fifth in the 400 hurdles with 55.26. At present, in addition to Fabbri, Furlani and Folorunso, Gianmarco Tamberi has also qualified in the high jump and Larissa Iapichino in the long jump, but other Italians could join in the event of withdrawals. Lorenzo Simonelli, who was not satisfied with eighth place in the 110 hurdles (13.45/-0.3), and Zane Weir, tenth in the shot put with 18.98, are unable to reach the final. Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo flies in the 200 with 19.55 (+0.4), the best world performance of the year for Kenyan Beatrice Chebet in the 5000 with 14:09.52: both will compete in Brescia on Sunday. Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo (Botswana) never ceases to impress, with a fabulous 19.55 (+0.4) in the 200 meters, her fourth victory in the Diamond League in two weeks after the Paris Olympics, tonight with a sensational comeback in the final forty meters over the American Kenneth Bednarek (19.57). Also well under twenty seconds were the other American sprinters Erriyon Knighton (19.79) and Fred Kerley (19.81), and the Dominican Alexander Ogando (19.87). In the 5000 meters, Kenyan Beatrice Chebet, double Olympic title in Paris, did it all by herself in the last two kilometers: her assault on the world record faded but still finished in a masterly 14:09.52, the best world performance of the year. In the 100, Sha’Carri Richardson (USA) came out strong in the final with 10.84 (+0.4) overtaking the British Dina Asher-Smith (then third in 10.89) also overtaken by the Olympic gold medalist Julien Alfred (Saint Lucia) second in 10.88. In the pole vault, the ‘news’ is that the Swedish Mondo Duplantis did not go beyond 6 meters (ok at 5.82), due to the prohibitive conditions for the pole vault race. In the 400 hurdles without the Norwegian Karsten Warholm (who withdrew after yesterday’s 100 meters show won by Duplantis himself and who paraded with the Swedish jersey for having lost the… bet) and with the Brazilian Alison Dos Santos who stopped after five hurdles, the twenty-year-old Jamaican Roshawn Clarke took advantage (47.49). Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen is not exaggerating after his world record in the 3000 in Silesia: in the 1500 he is beaten again (3:29.52), tonight by the American Yared Nuguse (3:29.21) who passes him in the sprint. Puerto Ricans win the 100hs with Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (12.36/+0.8), Kenyans win the 800 with Mary Moraa (1:57.08). In the high jump, in the pouring rain, 1.96 for the Ukrainian world record holder and Olympic gold medalist Yaroslava Mahuchikh. Javelin: Grenadian Anderson Peters (85.72) narrowly beats German Julian Weber (85.33). (ANSA).
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