Athletics, Torun: Iapichino does not take off, you throw Ponzio and Weir

The shocks, from the Torun meeting, come from the shot put with Nick Ponzio and Zane Weir at 21.50 at the same time. Two blues together in that size, never seen before. Larissa Iapichino, on the other hand, does not take off: the long-distance runner of the Fiamme Gialle stops at 6.38, remaining below the first two seasonal releases (6.59 and 6.49 in Ancona).

Disappointment Larissa

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The start of the blue is from 6.35, then three centimeters more in the second jump, then four null jumps, to close in sixth place, in the test won by the Swedish Khaddi Sagnia with 6.70. “A game in which I have never been in the game, I do not look for excuses – the words of Iapichino from Poland -. There are still things to fix on the run-up, in the last two jumps I gave my all and unfortunately the batting board betrayed me on both occasions. See you on Sunday at the Absolutes. I’m sorry for this missed opportunity ”.

Weight flies

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A few weeks from the Indoor World Championships in Belgrade (18-20 March) Nick Ponzio (Athletic Club 96 Alperia) and Zane Weir (Fiamme Gialle) write a beautiful page of the blue shot put, touching respectively with 21.53 and 21.50 the Italian indoor record set in 2020 by Leonardo Fabbri (21.59). It had never happened that two blue weightlifters threw from 21.50 and up in the same race (not even above 21 meters on the same occasion). For Ponzio, born and raised in the States but with Sicilian roots (Paceco, Trapani) by his grandfather, debutant in the national team at the Tokyo Olympics last August, it is an exceptional afternoon at the first non-American race of the year: in addition to throwing the ball from 7.26 kg to 21.53, he also sends it at 21.39 and 21.32, without underestimating two more throws at 20.97 and 20.80, testifying to a very solid series. PB indoor and the outdoor staff of 21.72 in 2020 is not far away. For Weir, who was an excellent fifth at the Tokyo Games, the series is growing: 20.61 per third, 21.08 per fourth, 21 , 50 to the sixth, personal indoor record, not much lower than the 21.65 seasonal launched outdoors in South Africa, his country of origin, in February, and also at 21.66 last September in Caorle. At the Copernicus Cup third and fourth place for the Azzurri, fifth is Leonardo Fabbri (Aeronautica) with 20.42 at the last launch.

The other races

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Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay nears his own world record of 1500 indoors with 3: 54.77, not far from 3: 53.09 last year in Liévin: it is the second performance of all times. In the 400, the Dutch Femke Bol sets the best time in the world of 2022 with 50.64. The great challenge of the 60s between Ewa Swoboda and Elaine Thompson-Herah goes to the Pole with 7.03 in front of the Jamaican Olympic champion (7.04). In the male (absent Jacobs) success for the American Elijah Hall in 6.53. The hedger Lamecha Girma (7: 31.09) again beats the Olympic gold of the 10,000 Selemon Barega (7: 31.39) in the 3000. National record of Poland for the hurdler Damian Czykier (7.48 in the 60hs), the Filipino Ernest Obiena at 5 , 81 in the auction.