Filippo Tortu's season started at the Folksam Gp indoor in Stockholm , Sweden, with a fifth place and a time of 6.75 in the 60 metres, after the battery of 6.81.
The Olympic champion of the 4x100 relay hadn't run this distance for three years, in which he holds a personal best of 6.58.
«It was definitely one of my worst races - the comment released by Tortu's staff - Nonetheless we were able to read between the lines of bitterness what we have to do starting tomorrow, on the track, to continue building in view of the outdoor season».
The Swede Henrik Larsson won the race, with a time to be taken into consideration in view of the indoor European Championships in Istanbul, able to improve up to 6.56. Behind him the Pole Oliwer Wdowik (6.65), the Finn Samuli Samuelsson (6.66) and the Serbian Aleksa Kijanovic (6.68) .
In Stockholm Mattia Furlani smiles instead : the young blue talent who will turn eighteen on 7 February glides on the Italian U20 record of the long indoor with 7.99 in the last jump, after having already appropriated the national limit in the first round with 7.84 . After seven years, the Fiamme Oro climber improves Gabriele Chilà's 7.78 in 2016 and even surpasses the 7.75 jumped by Marcell Jacobs in the junior category in 2013.
«Excellent platform, excellent day, very happy to have come close to eight metres, it was the result I was looking for and which I knew I was worth - Furlani from Sweden rejoices - I'm confident because in 7.99 I finished really badly, so there's still some margin . Unlike last year, when I often "died" on the first jump, now that we're focusing on long distance I can manage the entire race much better, and we've had proof of that».
(Unioneonline/D)
