The season of Filip Tortu starts from the time of 10.15 in the 100 meters in Gainesville, Florida (United States), with +1.7 wind. For the Olympic champion of the 4×100 relay it is the best debut of the last five years on this distance, achieved with a favorable breeze but within the limits of the allowed.
In the main series of the Tom Jones Memorial the Italian placed seventh, while the success went to the American world champion in the 100, 200 and 4×100 Noah Lyles who wins without exaggerating in 10.01 ahead of the 200 Olympic silver medalist Kenny Bednarek, second with the same time, and the other American Kyree King (10.02), then the Japanese world champion finalist Abdul Hakim Sani Brown (10.04) fourth and the Liberian fifth Joseph Fahnbulleh (10.07) preceded the Jamaican Ryiem Forde (10.12).
The 25-year-old from the Fiamme Gialle, European bronze medalist in the 200m and world silver medalist in the 4x100m, is currently training overseas in Montverde, near Orlando, where he will remain until 26 April before joining the group of Italian sprinters who will fly to the USA to the Miami rally in preparation for the World Relays in Nassau (Bahamas, 4-5 May), the world relay event that offers qualification for the Paris Olympics.
It’s been almost a year since Tortu tested himself in the 100 meters race, 325 days to be precise, in Savona in heat and final last May with 10.16 and 10.17 both windy. The first Italian under 10 seconds with 9.99 in 2018 in Madrid, last season the Brianza native ran 20.14 in the 200, reaching the Olympic standard at the Molfetta Championships and then with the 4×100 together with Rigali, Jacobs and Patta he climbed to the second step of the podium at the World Championships in Budapest.
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– 2024-04-16 04:13:57
