Italy dreams big in the triple jump at the World Cup 2022 of athletics. Emmanuel Ihemeje proved in great form on his home track: the Oregon University student has competed several times in this facility, last year he won the NCAA championship and a few months ago he was second. The 23-year-old, already a finalist at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, immediately set the record straight with a initial leap to 17.03 metersbut then he was not satisfied despite the passage of the shift was in fact in his pocket and it is flew 17.13 meters on the third attempt.
This is a remarkable result, just an inch from the staff signed last year. The native of Carrara has therefore exceeded the qualification norm set at 17.05, like only four other athletes: the Portuguese Pedro Pichardo (17.16 for one of the big favorites on the eve), the Burkinabé Hugues Fabrice Zango (17.15 for the indoor world record holder) , the Chinese Yaming Zhu (17.08) and the Cuban Lazaro Martinez (17.06, another big announced on the eve).
Andrea Dallavalle showed up for the appointment with the third accreditation measure (the 17.28 signed a month ago at the Italian Championships in Rieti) and has detaching the ticket for the final act with the seventh measure of the day (16.86). The 22-year-old from Emilia, finalist at the Games last year, did not seem very precise from a technical point of view and will have to fix some details, there are all the credentials to be the absolute protagonist in a couple of days. The final appears decidedly open and our riders can give themselves some satisfactions. Tobia Bocchi is instead eliminated by ten centimeters (16.58).
The others qualified for the final: the French Jean-Marc Pontvianne (16.95), the American Donald Scott (16.84), the Brazilian Almir Dos Santos (16.71), the American Will Claye (16.70), the Portuguese Tiago Pereira (16.69), the Indian Eldhose Paul (16.68 ). The American Chris Taylor is not the one of the best days and abdicates the title, finishing in 18th position with 16.48.
Photo: Lapresse
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