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[phelps 8,696]

some results from day 1 & 2 of the  Indoor Nationals in Ancona

 

• Leo Fabbri won the men's Shot Put with 21.80m
• Francesco Fortunato set a new world record over the indoor 5km race walking, 17:54.48
• women's 60m HS: 1.Elisa Maria Di Lazzaro, 8.06 just edging out by 2/1000 of a second Giada Carmassi, but mainly, 3. Alessia Succo (17 years young), 8.08, which is a new U18 european record and U20 Italian record
• Larissa Iapichino won the women's LJ with 6.78m

 

at the  Outdoor Throwing Nationals in Mariano Comense, day 1

 

• Sara Fantini wins the women's Hammer Throw with 68.73m
• Paola Padovan wins the women's Javelin Throw with 57.52m
• Enrico Saccomano wins the men's Discus Throw with 61.29m

Edited February 28 by phelps

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Iapichino again without any revelations

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Chase jackson with a national indoor record of 20.44 at the american trials.Zach bradford- wins the men's pole vault with 6.01. 

[Makedonas 2,262]

17 yo Charalampos Alivizatos in the men's high jump with 2.25 at  National Championships 

His previous PB was 2.19, he equaled that today, then cleared 2.21 on his first attempt,  2.23 on his third, and 2.25 on his first!

 

He is trying now for 2.27 and missed his first attempt. He is currently in second place as Merlos also cleared 2.25 but with less attempts.

 

He is improving rapidly. His PB after 2023 was 1.90, then 2.07 after 2024 and 2.15 after 2025 

[Makedonas 2,262]

4 minutes ago, Makedonas said:

17 yo Charalampos Alivizatos in the men's high jump with 2.25 at  National Championships 

His previous PB was 2.19, he equaled that today, then cleared 2.21 on his first attempt,  2.23 on his third, and 2.25 on his first!

 

He is trying now for 2.27 and missed his first attempt. He is currently in second place as Merlos also cleared 2.25 but with less attempts.

 

He is improving rapidly. His PB after 2023 was 1.90, then 2.07 after 2024 and 2.15 after 2025 

He missed all 3 attempts at 2.27 to finish in second place. Merlos cleared 2.27 on his first attempt to equal his PB from a few weeks ago and will go for 2.29 now.

 

 

Another 2008-born athlete, Evelyn Mitropoulou, got 6.45 in the women's long jump 

The U20WL is 6.46, so she was very close. She also smashed her own indoor U20NR of 6.25 today 

[phelps 8,696]

23 hours ago, phelps said:

some results from day 1 & 2 of the  Indoor Nationals in Ancona

 

• Leo Fabbri won the men's Shot Put with 21.80m
• Francesco Fortunato set a new world record over the indoor 5km race walking, 17:54.48
• women's 60m HS: 1.Elisa Maria Di Lazzaro, 8.06 just edging out by 2/1000 of a second Giada Carmassi, but mainly, 3. Alessia Succo (17 years young), 8.08, which is a new U18 european record and U20 Italian record
• Larissa Iapichino won the women's LJ with 6.78m

 

at the  Outdoor Throwing Nationals in Mariano Comense, day 1

 

• Sara Fantini wins the women's Hammer Throw with 68.73m
• Paola Padovan wins the women's Javelin Throw with 57.52m
• Enrico Saccomano wins the men's Discus Throw with 61.29m

Day 3 in Ancona

 

• women's 60m: 1.Zeynab Dosso, 7.10 (7.09 in the heats), 2.Kelly Ann Doualla (16 years young), 7.21
• men's High Jump: 1.Christian Falocchi, 2.30m
• men's 60m: 1.Filippo Randazzo, 6.61, 2.Samuele Ceccarelli, also 6.61, 3.Eduardo Longobardi, 6.62 (very nice race, despite the timings are not world class)
• men's Triple Jump: 1.Andrea Dallavalle, 16.99m, 2.Andy Diaz, 16.90m, but he was well far from the board, with a good board, it would have been a 17.50+ jump (ps both only jumped twice)
• women's 400m: 1.Eloisa Coiro (800m specialist), 52.02
• men's Eptathlon: 1.Dario Dester, 6121 pts (new Italian Record)

 

Day 2 in Mariano Comense

 

the only non loughable result is the women's discus throw: 1. Daisy Osakue, 59.79m, 2.Benedetta Benedetti, 58.17m (PB)

 

men's Marathon

 

world bronze medallist Iliass Aouani ranked 6th at the Tokyo Marathon and improved the Italian men's National Record up to 2:04:26 (7th European runner in history)

[Makedonas 2,262]

Tentoglou won the men's long jump with 8.22. He only had two valid jumps today.

 

Another U20NR came in the women's shot put from Maria Rafailidou. She had 16.53 earlier this week and now got 16.59. She's second in the world for U20 this year 

 

So of course Karalis was the big star of our nationals this year, more than Tentoglou, but we also had a lot of teenagers show good signs for the future (Antonatou, Alivizatos, Mitropoulou, Iakovaki, Rafailidou etc).

 

Antonatou and Alivizatos are both from Kefalonia island. Antonatou's brother is a shot putter who is 19 yo and had a new PB yesterday of 17.92 in the NCAA. I don't remember us ever having any strong athletes from Kefalonia in any sport aside from the late Anna Pollatou who won an Olympic bronze in rhythmic gymnastics. What are they feeding these kids on this island (it only has about 35.000 residents)?! Very impressive.

[George_D 1,640]

2nd best all time performance 

 

 

 

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No thread of cross country 

 

60th CISM World Military Cross-Country Championships 2026 

 

gold  

 

https://my.raceresult.com/385363/#2_83D0A6

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Huge  talent decathle Hubert Trościanka did went a Achilles surgery today, as he get injury at recent indoor national championships  Hoping he will be well in future to be able qualify to LA28...