Blue Festa in Tampere, Italian athletics continues to be at the top also at a youth level and closes the day at the European under 20 with three medals, two golden and one silver. That on Finnish land is an overwhelming blue wave, with two finals dominated by two wonderful talents.
In the 100 meters the feat is by Kelly Doualla in 11.22 (-0.1) to one cents from her Italian record U20, mistress of the race with 19 cents of advantage over the less far away of the opponents. The 15 -year -old native of Pavia is the youngest winner of the story on this distance in the 28 editions of this youth European, at just 15 years old and 261 days of age: before she arrived, she had been the German East Petra Koppetsch who was 16 years old and 309 days in 1975 when he climbed on the top step of the podium: the blue is almost one year less, and this success comes after the Ayof of a couple of weeks ago.
The Lombard of the Cus Pro Patria starts well which then unleashes the straight with its formidable race action, impregnable for all, against older athletes even three years: silver at the British Mabel Akande (11.41), bronze at Ukraine Uliana Stepaniuk (11.53) which precedes the other blue Alice Pagliarini by a single cent, fourth in 11.54.
“I hoped a lot to be able to do something great – says Kelly Doualla – and I can say that I did it, that’s what I had set myself since the beginning of the year. On the track I was quite quiet, on the blocks there was a little anxiety but better this way because it helped me to go stronger. Without cheering of the Azzurri I think I wouldn’t have made it. This victory also deserves my coach Walter Monti for all the commitment he put on us, was born thanks to him and my training companions who have always spurred me. For the future I want to go on like this, always improving me ».
The queen of triple is the Milanese Erika Saraceni, born in 2006, a favorite of the eve and at the top of the end to the end: it reaches 14.24 with null wind at the last attempt to improve sixteen centimeters his Italian junior record of 14.08 (+1.2) which he had equal at the opening, then landing at 14.15 just windy (+2.1) in the third. Erika also takes the primacy of the event, obtained with a huge detachment of almost half a meter (49 centimeters) on the second classified, the Romanian Daria Vrinceanu.
In the final of the long Daniele Inzoli resolves the matter to the third entry on the platform, detaching in the middle of the joke: with 7.69 he earns the possibility of the next three shifts. The Milanese, 17 years old to turn in four days, however appears to be sore in the right foot and parades the nail several times, commits a null to the fourth before the fifth jump (7.50/+0.3) which does not improve its measure but brings it momentarily to second place. The 7.56 of the Serbian Boskovic immediately rejects him in third position. On the sixth jump, something can still play and it lands at 7.62 which delivers the silver, still as a pupil.