LIVE Vallortigara World Athletics Championships in the high final. Competitions and program of the night | Direct

On the fifth day there are four titles up for grabs with the men’s final of the disc, the 1500 and the 400 obstacles

It is Elena Vallortigara’s night. When in Italy it will be 2.40 (17.40 in Oregon) the final of the high jump at the Eugene World Championships will start: the blue jumper, thanks to a convincing qualification without errors (up to 1.93 at the first test), faces the first outdoor world champion final of his career, after taking sixth place at the Indoor World Championships in Belgrade in March. “I wished as much as I feared this qualification – his words on Instagram – To dispel my doubts and fears with four white flags and a ‘q’ after my name is the best I could do. The opportunity to fully experience a experience like this makes me happy, complete, but above all ready “. Very favorite, and it could not be otherwise, is the Ukrainian champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh, credited with a 2.03 season and dominator of the season.

On the fifth day of the world championship at Hayward Field, the two hundred drivers Filippo Tortu and Dalia Kaddari also return to the track, engaged in their respective semifinals (3.05 women, 3.50 men). Almost three years after the final in Doha in the 100 meters, the sprinter from Brianza is looking for another world championship final on double distance: third semifinal, fifth lane, right next to the baby phenomenon Erriyon Knighton (in fourth). Other opponents include Canadian Aaron Brown, Chinese Xie Zhenye, Jamaican Rasheed Dwyer. The first two are ahead, plus two repechage times: in the other semifinals, Fred Kerley is in the first, Noah Lyles in the second. In the women, big name semifinal for the Sardinian Kaddari (in the eighth lane), who will have the honor of racing with the Jamaican 100 champion Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce and with the new US star Abby Steiner. In the 400 hurdles (which in the men propose the amazing final with Warholm, Dos Santos and Benjamin) from 2.15 it is the turn of the three blue Linda Olivieri (in the second, in the sixth lane), Rebecca Sartori (third battery, fourth lane) and Ayomide Folorunso (fifth battery, fifth lane). Formula 4 + 4 for the passage to the semifinals.

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