Mar 23, 2026
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The Italian team finished in third place at the World Indoor Championships in Poland
- The Italian track and field team set a new record for medals at the World Indoor Championships. In Turin, Poland, the Italian team finished third in the medal table with five medals, three gold medals (never before) and two silver medals (never achieved such a high position in the 20 previous editions of the event).
The USA topped the medal table for the fourteenth time by the USA, this time with 18 medals (5 gold, 7 silver, 6 bronze) to Great Britain's 4, but all gold.Ukraine is behind Italy with 3 podiums (2 gold, one silver).In commemoration of our colors, Zaynab Dosso topped the world in the 60m, Nadia Battocletti in the 3000m and Andy Diaz in the triple jump.
Double silver in the long jump, Larissa Iapichino and Mattia Furlani.For the first time in the world championship in 41 editions (20 outdoors and 21 indoors), the Italian team won three golds (the most so far it was two. Moreover, for the first time in the indoor world championship two titles came on the same day (Battocletti and Dosso) Only once in the world championships, but outside, there were two in the Gold on 9 of August 9. Michele Didoni on the 20 km walk with Fiona May (motherof Larissa Iapichino) in the long run.
Second place went to Larissa Iapihino with a measurement of 6.87 m, who jumped on the sixth and last jump.Gold for Portugal's Agate De Sousa with a score of 6.92.Bronze for the Colombian Natalia Linares with a score of 6.80.The Florentine jumper started the competition with decidedly low readings: 6.49, then 6.69, then zero and 6.66, but on the fifth jump, the "tiger's" leg landed at the level of 6.84.Portugal's De Sousa regained first place, jumping 6.92.In the last series of jumps, sixth, Ensign Fiamme Oro improved, but "only" by five centimeters, which produced a score of 6.87, equaling a perfect silver.Larissa's trophy portfolio already includes continental indoor gold last year in Apeldoorn with a score of 6.94, silver at the European Championships in Rome in 2024 and European under-23 gold in 2023. At the 2024 Paris Olympics, she placed fourth with a score of 67.
Larissa, "the end of the curse"
"I thought I had some kind of curse at the World Championships, because something always happens, but despite my usual 'Larisas' today, I finally managed to achieve this goal: it was close to gold", commented Larisa Ibchino after winning the silver medal in the long jump.29 years later - I'm not an early riser, I have to try to adapt: I was too far back at the first jump.I've had a complicated relationship with the region so far, and I'm happy to make peace with it."
Mattia Furlani won the silver medal in the long jump with a jump of 8.39 m, which equaled his personal best.The gold medal went to Gerson Baldé from Portugal, who can fly into the air on his sixth and final jump with a time of 8.46, which is the best achievement of the year in the world.Bronze for Bozhidar Sarabojukov from Bulgaria with a time of 8.31.
Forlani, 21, from Marino, won his third medal at the World Championships in the indoor stadium "Toruń Arena" in the Polish city of the same name in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.He had previously won silver in Glasgow 2024 with a time of 8.22, and last year in Nanjing he was proclaimed champion with a time of 8.30.For the Fiamme Oro long jumper, the race started somewhat calmly: 8.16 on the first jump, then 8.25 on the second, zero on the third and 8.23 on the fourth.At the end of the fifth and penultimate series, the blues had control of the race, but in the sixth jump, the Portuguese Balde, a 26-year-old from Algarve who had never won medals in any international event, guessed the lead and the podium to score 8.46.
Mattia, "The objective title is confirmed".
"It's nice to consider that last week was not easy for me, when I came back from the flu and tonight I had a stomach ache twice. I did a good job but at the same time there was a lot of work to be done on many things."Here are the comments of Mattia Furlani, the second winner of the long distance world tour at the end of the competition.The long jumper from Rome from Fiamme Oro, who won gold last year in China, added that: "The goal is to prove myself and defend the title, there is no need to hide, but every competition is different and the same jump, I would have gained more centimeters on the platform, at 8.50 meters" and declared that, "I am ready to prepare for the season".
Furlani's personal best is 8.39 metres, a national indoor record but third all-time outdoors behind Andrew Howe's 8.47 (30 August 2007) and Giovanni Evangelisti's 8.43 (16 May 1987).2025, outdoors in Tokyo and Nanjing, and indoor silver in Glasgow in 2024 and not forgetting Olympic bronze in Paris 2024.
