Gianmarco Tamberi is on the top of Europe one year after the Olympic success in Tokyo. In Munich "Gimbo" places the decisive jump at 2.30 and thus obtains the second European title after Amsterdam 2016.
A gold medal that is not easy given the conditions (the rain delayed the program), but the Italians took strength in front of the German Tobias Potye and the Ukrainian Andriy Protsenko (both at 2.27).
"What a difficult race, but I said to myself today or never ", his hot comment. “I gave my all, I'm exploding with joy . The obstacles stimulate me, I made the best jumps with the Italy shirt ".
And today, two weeks after the wedding with "Chiara, the woman of my life", off for the Olympic champion to the bachelor party celebrations . "My friends are coming, we wanted to do it with gold: finally some relaxation", he added to RaiSport's microphones after running to hug his girlfriend in the stands.
"If I will continue to work with my father as a coach ? Now we will see ", explained the blue.
In the morning disappointment from Monaco in the 4x100 relay , where the Azzurri after Jacobs' forfeit say goodbye to the final: only fifth position in the heats remedied.
(Unioneonline / vl)
