Mattia Furlani conquers Italy’s first gold at the Athletics World Championships, in Tokyo: the blue wins him in the final of the long jump, with the measure of 8 meters and 39, his personal record
Furlani, 20 years old, had begun with a null leap but in the fifth he improved his personal record by an centimeter, setting the new to 8.39 and climbing over the Gayle Jamaican, silver at 8.34, and the Chinese Shi, bronze with 8.33. The blue had already won the Nanchino 2025 indoor world championship, and had been bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics.
Immediately after the last jump, Furlani went to celebrate with her staff and the coaching mother, wrapped in a tricolor flag. “Numbers one, we are the numbers one,” he shouted at his staff
«I don’t know if it’s all true, until I feel the hymn I don’t think: it’s a medal that weighs, something magical happened tonight. We managed the race perfectly: we believed it to the last jump by adjusting the jumping technique after jump ». These are the words of Mattia Furlani, a new world champion for long jump in Tokyo, in ‘Raisport’. “I have to thank my mom in the first place, he did a memorable job, thanks to my father, thanks to everyone – added Furlani, flames of the Fiamme Oro – it was a year of fantastic growth: up to two years I could only dream of all this, now it is reality. It was a season that we planned well and the result came. For me it is only the beginning, we must still work on the jump, but reaching these results is really fantastic ».