Athletics World Championships: smiles with Vallortigara and Dosso. Elena in the final of the high without errors

From our correspondent Andrea Buongiovanni

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July 17
– EUGENE (USA)

Saturday world championship, Jacobs disappointment aside, also gives Italy some results to smile at. Above all, Elena Vallortigara’s promotion to the high final on Tuesday night. The 30-year-old from Vicenza, two youth bronze medals between 2007 and 2010 and a staff of 2.02 in 2018, makes a clear path (1.81, 1.86, 190 and 1.93 on the first attempt) and breaks down a taboo. Never, in a senior global review (one Olympics, one World Cup, one European outdoor and two indoor), she had managed to pass the qualification. Like her, only Ukrainian Mahuchikh and Gerashchenko, Australian Patterson and Uzbek Salullayeva make no mistakes. Those from Stefano Giardi’s pupil jumped in great safety, well above the bar. Sign of a great condition after 1.98 signed four weeks ago at the Assoluti di Rieti. Dreaming big now is not forbidden.

Brava Zaynab

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Zaynab Dosso also fulfills its task fully. The Reggiana is third in her battery of 100 with 11 ”26 (+0.2) and, even if with the 26th overall time trial of the day, she enters the 24th who will play the semifinals on Sunday night. Giorgio Frinolli’s pupil has a good start, pays a little in the final, but holds up enough (1/100 margin!) To conquer the direct pass.

Red disc

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Little glory, however, for Mario Lambrughi, with 50 “18 first excluded from the semifinals of the 400 obstacles, for Gaia Sabbatini, disqualified for pushing in a semifinal of 1500 not managed at best (with 4’05” 41, sixth with the 15th time trial overall, it would have been eliminated anyway) and for Ottavia Cestonaro who, in the qualification of the triple, does not go beyond a 13.64 (+0.4) and, twenty-second of the day, is rejected.