Italian masterpiece at the Ultimate Championship: Tamberi flies 2.37 meters and Pernici shatters the Italian record in the 800 meters

The Budapest stadium confirms itself as a land of conquests for Gianmarco Tamberi, capable of signing a memorable triumph in the first edition of the Ultimate Championship. The Italian defeated the international competition in the high jump by exceeding the measurement of 2.37 metres, which not only allowed him to win but also to obtain the best world performance of the year.

The race was managed with impressive technical clarity: after having passed the preliminary quotas flawlessly, the Italian champion hit 2.30 on the second attempt and then set his own pace by flying over 2.33 and 2.35 meters on the first attempt. Not even time to digest the emotion that arrived at 2.37 in the second test, a jump that mortgaged the top step of the podium, leaving the American JuVaughn Harrison behind, who stopped at 2.30. Driven by the warmth of the family in the stands, Tamberi attempted to attack the new Italian record of 2.41, demonstrating that he is in excellent physical condition and relaunching great ambitions for the next international events, starting with the Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

The historic achievement in the 800 meters signed by Francesco Pernici

If the high jump highlighted the experience and charisma of the Italian captain, the 800 meter track consecrated the crystalline talent of Francesco Pernici. In a final raced at an infernal pace set right from the start by the Canadian Marco Arop and won by the Algerian Djamel Sedjati in 1’41″91, the distance runner from Brescia performed a tactically perfect test.

In the final straight, taking advantage of a burning progression, Pernici overtook all the European specialists in the race, finishing in fifth position overall, but stopping the clock in a stratospheric 1’42″67. This time allowed him to break the 1’43 barrier for the first time in the history of Italian athletics, shattering his previous national record set in July. An extraordinary result that crowns the Italian as the best European interpreter of the specialty and certifies the quality of a technical growth that is now without borders.