2004

Turin gives the Meeting the audience of the big occasions and the Meeting repays the favour with an evening full of emotions and results.
The two triple jumps stand out as expected: Christian Olsson jumps 17,61 mts. and Magdelin Martinez jumps 14,73 mts., and both hit the target of the world season best. Simona La Mantia draws attention by undermining Martinez with a fine 14,49 mts, her personal best. However, the true protagonist has been the public, with great satisfaction of the athletes for the steady support received throughout the competition. The eagerly awaited men’s 800 meters haven’t failed the expectations, even if the three announced protagonists, Krummenacker, Said Guerni e Longo, have been outclassed (in that same order) by Florent Lacasse (1‘44”82, second world best performance) whom, for the second time, gains victory in Turin.
The men’s high jump competition has been very interesting and fought to the last jump: the challenge between Nicola Ciotti e Gennady Moroz ended in a draw with a 2,28 mts. – the italian missed the 2,30 mts by a little.
For what concerns women’s competitions double victory for Ionela Tirlea that not so much satisfied of her time on the 400mts. (54”86 – third world best performance - before Debbie Parris and Benedetta Ceccarelli that gets her personal best at 56”04) decides to beat her opponents easily even on the 200 flat race an hour and a half later finishing in 23”13.


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