Tokyo 2020, athletics: Italy in the final in the men’s 4x100m | News

The Italy of athletics speed continues to give satisfaction at the Tokyo Olympics. In fact, the qualification for the final arrives in the 4×100 male, in which the quartet consisting of Lorenzo Patta, Marcell Jacobs, Eseosa Fostine Desalu and Filippo Tortu concludes the battery in third position and snatches the pass with a time of 37 ”95. Out of the final, however, the female relay, despite the Italian record in 42 ”84.

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L’Italy of athletics resolutely continues its race towards historic results in this edition of the Olympics. The men’s 4×100 relay hits the entrance to the final, the primary objective to be able to dream of a medal in that New Olympic stadium in Tokyo which has already given our expedition two golds. The quartet consisting of Lorenzo Patta, Marcell Jacobs, Eseosa Fostine Desalu and Filippo Tortu stops the clock in 37 ”95, which is worth the third place in the heat and with it the pass for the final. The gap between the two national teams that do best, China and Canada (both with 37 ”92), it does not seem impossible to fill in the fight for medals. Shock instead for the United States, eliminated with the sixth battery time in 38 ”10, even without big mistakes in the gearboxes.

The new Italian record, on the other hand, is not enough for the women’s 4×100 relay to access the final. The quartet consisting of Irene Siragusa, Gloria Hooper, Anna Bongiorni and Vittoria Fontana exceeds its limits, concluding with a time of 42 “84, the Italian record of the specialty, but the sixth place in the first of the two heats condemns the blue to elimination, not without regrets: 4 hundredths of a second less on the time would have been enough to bypass Holland and have a valid time for the repechage to the final. The Italians also suffer from an unfortunate draw, which pitted them against Great Britain (the best in 41 ”55), the United States and Jamaica, qualified with the top three positions.

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