Nadia Battocletti has signed the new Italian record of 5000 meters in Londonon the occasion of the tenth stage of the Diamond League, the top international itinerant athletics circuit. The blue was simply commendable in the British capital, where she performed a race of great shrewdness from a tactical and competitive point of view: she was good at managing fatigue in the central part of the race and then in the final she had the ardor to insist on action to achieve an objective she had been pursuing for some time. Thirty crossed the finish line in eighth position with a time of 14:41.30 and has so improved a national record that had held for almost 27 years, or 14:44.50 signed by Roberta Brunet on 16 August 1996 in Cologne. At the time the blue wasn’t even born, today it has carved out an even bigger space in the history of tricolor athletics.
Nadia Battocletti already held the Italian records of 3000 meters indoors, 2 miles, 5 kilometres. The 23-year-old was fresh from winning the European team championship over this distance, but in the season it hadn’t yet dropped below 15 minutes and its personal best was 14:46.29. The middle-distance runner, in her career multiple winners at the youth level at the cross-country European Championships, once again reaffirmed her competitive caliber and took off a important satisfaction when the World Cup is less than a month away. Our standard bearer, seventh at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and at the last European Championships over 5000 metres, was the second European to finish in a race won by the eagerly awaited Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay (14:12.29) ahead of the Kenyan Beatrice Chebet (14:12.92) and the Dutch Sifan Hassan (14:13.42).
2023-07-23 14:08:06
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