Athletics, Battocletti, Italian record of the 5000m: surpassed the Brunet after 27 years!

It took almost 27 years. But, in the end, Roberta Brunet’s Italian record in the 5000m, obtained at the meeting in Cologne on August 16, 1996, a few days after the historic Olympic bronze medal in Atlanta, fell. Thanks to Nadia Battocletti. And it could not be otherwise. The 23-year-old from Trentino from Fiamme Azzurre, at the Olympic stadium in London, in front of the 50,000 spectators of the tenth stage of the Diamond League season, the last before the World Cup in Budapest on August 19-27, ran in 14’41″30, 3″20 better than the 58-year-old from Aosta in Germany today.

What a race

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Dad Giuliano’s pupil, in the junior world bronze specialty in Lisbon 1994, with 14’46”29, had already approached the record at the Tokyo 2021 Games, when she was a splendid seventh. The London time trial is now valid for direct admission to Budapest and, as of now, to the Paris 2024 Olympics. The race is very fast: Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay wins in a great 14’12″29 and also gives the Dutch Sifan Hassan the European record, third in 14’13″42 (which improves on his own 14’22″12 obtained on 21 July 2019 on the same track). and that of the junior world of the Ethiopian Medina Eisa, fourth in 14’16”54. The blue is eighth and second representative of the Old Continent. “At the beginning – she says – there was some confusion with the various colors of the lights on the electronic hares. I found myself in the lead pulling the second group, even against a bit of wind. But it went great like this. One month before the World Cup, it’s a great result: the goal was to improve the season and, if possible, do the Olympic minimum. I succeeded and now I would like to continue on this path, grow day by day as a person and as an athlete”.

Lyles and Bol

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The meeting offers an infinite number of thunderous performances. In the lead a fantastic 200m, won by Noah Lyles in 19″47 (+1.6), third time of his career ahead of the increasingly phenomenal 20-year-old Botswanan Letsile Tebogo, the African record with 19″50 and the British Zharnel Hughes who, with 19″73, remains 1/100 from the European limit of Pietro Mennea. However, there is also a second continental record: it bears the signature of Femke Bol who dominates the 400 hurdles with a stunning 51″45, which improves on her own 52″03 centered on August 4, 2021 at the Tokyo Games. That day, the American Sydney McLoughin won in 50 ”68: only two performances of her are better than that of the Dutchman.

Fabbri and Bruni

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Also of great value is Ryan Crouser’s 23.07 in weight (with Leo Fabbri eighth with 20.97 on the first launch and then four nulls, 18 hours after 21.72 in Trieste) and Japan’s 37″80 in the men’s 4×100 (in front of Great Britain’s 38″00), to overtake Italy without consequences in the ranking of the “Road to Budapest”. In the auction won by the Finnish Wilma Murto with 4.60, Roberta Bruni is sixth with 4.51.