Athletics, Elena Vallortigara immediately out of the European indoor championships: “Painful result”

ISTANBUL – She was the most popular blue at the European indoor championships, together with the duo Jacobs-Ceccarelli in the 60s. But Elena Vallortigara she went out straight away in Istanbul, with a shock elimination in the high jump qualifier. Accompanied by unequivocal words: “It is a painful result”.

The blue European Championship doesn’t start in the best way, even if many have passed the round so far with ambitions to do well. But the heaviest card of the day was lost: no final on Sunday morning, a disappointment, considering the bronze medal won last summer at the World Championships in Eugene. Vallortigara easily surpassed 1.76 on her first attempt, but already at 1.82 the alarm went off: the Italian failed immediately, at an altitude that the Ukrainian favorite Yaroslava Mahuchik had even bypassed. At the second attempt the jump was successful, but the verdict was only postponed to one meter and 87. One after the other, three null jumps and elimination, with the last place in the standings. “It’s a painful result that I was sure I didn’t have to comment on, but I had great difficulties on the platform with the run-up that I couldn’t fix: going out with 1.82 is not dignified” the words in the Atakoy Arena.

The weightlifters arrived in the final Zane Weir And Leonardo Fabbri, who will be competing for the medals on Friday at 17.25: best throw with 21.46 meters on the second attempt for the former South African, while the Tuscan threw at 21.17 on the third attempt. Out of the final the third blue, Nick Pontius (19.83).

Go ahead too Eloisa Coirowhich in the 800 gets the repechage unlike Elena Bello. Qualify in the 800 men Catalin Tecuceanu And Simone Barontini, Tobias Bocchi in the triple (16.47), Louis Cavalli And Nadia Battocletti in the 3000, Pietro Arese And Ossama Meslekin the 1500s in which it doesn’t make it instead Federico Riva.

Out in the 3000 the rookie Micol Majori, in the triple Simone Biasutti, is eliminated at 16.20 for only the second worst measure compared to Cakir (15.91 vs 16.06).