With 8.31 Mattia can rejoice twice: ssurpassed Howe’s previous national record, set in 2007. And is just 4 centimeters away from the U20 outdoor world record
A phenomenon flies over the Indoor Championships in Ancona. It is the 19-year-old Mattia Furlani who enters the history of the long jump: with 8.31 on the first jump he improves Andrew Howe’s Italian indoor record after seventeen years, achieved on the occasion of the gold medal at the European Indoor Championships in Birmingham in 2007.
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It is the longest jump ever in the world for an indoor U20 athlete, just 4 centimeters away from Russian Sergey Morgunov’s outdoor U20 world record (8.35). And for the 19-year-old from the Fiamme Oro it is the second world result of 2024, only inferior to the 8.34 of the Jamaican Wayne Pinnock, just two weeks before the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow.