Filippo Tortu flies over 200 meters.
Outstanding performance by the sprinter of Sardinian origin, who set the personal best in Nairobi, Kenya, with a time of 20.11.
The Olympic champion of 4X100 crumbles after four years and his personal best by 23 cents (the previous one was 20.34, at the Golden Gala) in the half lap of the track and thus becomes the second Italian ever, behind only Pietro Mennea.
In the Gold stage of the Continental Tour Tortu finished third behind the American world silver Fred Kerley (19.76) and the Botswana sprinter Isaac Makwala (20.06).
Further confirmation that the blue on the 200 meters can really have its say, because on the pitch - as demonstrated also in the amazing last leg of the Olympic relay - it is really a turbo.
"Improving a personal best I have been missing for too long, from 2018 to be exact, with the 9.99 in Madrid", the words of Filippo Tortu after the new 200 in Nairobi. "I am really satisfied with this result - he added - which qualifies me directly for the Eugene 2022 World Championships, but which also has a bitter-sweet taste. Yes, because the great satisfaction is combined with the awareness that, having reached the end of the season , I could have done a lot better this year. "
Tortu then underlines that "it was certainly the most complicated season ever and only after the relay at the Games are
managed to give me a mental boost. Today I have a greater awareness of my means and I am happy to have
concluded with a flourish. Now is the time to take a well-deserved vacation. "
(Unioneonline / L)