Athletics: at the World Championships, a stellar Battocletti gives Italy its second gold medal.

At the indoor athletics World Championships, Italy wins its second gold. After yesterday's triumph by Andy Diaz in the triple jump, today a fantastic, extraordinary, and tremendous Nandia Battocletti won the 3000 title in 8'57"64, and after the Olympic and world silver in the 10,000, the world bronze in the 5000, not to mention a series of European titles across track, road, and cross country, she takes the gold in her first time at an indoor World Championship.

Nadia Battocletti extraordinary: gold in the 3000 (Photo Grana/Fidal)

And at 9 PM, we will cheer for two more Italians in contention for the podium. At 9:02 PM, the 60-meter hurdles final is scheduled with Lorenzo Simonelli, silver medalist from two years ago in the world edition in Glasgow, and the 60-meter dash final with Zaynab Dosso, the seasonal leader with 6"99, alongside Olympic gold medalist Alfred, who won her semifinal in 7"0.

At the indoor athletics World Championships, Italy wins its second gold. After yesterday's triumph by Andy Diaz in the triple jump, today a fantastic, extraordinary, and tremendous Nandia Battocletti won the 3000 in 8'57", and after the Olympic and world silver in the 10,000, the world bronze in the 5000, not to mention a series of European titles across track, road, and cross country, she takes the gold in her first time at an indoor World Championship.

Lorenzo Simonelli in action

And at 9 PM, we will cheer for two more Italians in contention for the podium. At 9:02 PM, the 60-meter hurdles final is scheduled with Lorenzo Simonelli, silver medalist from two years ago in the world edition in Glasgow, and the 60-meter dash final with Zaynab Dosso, the seasonal leader with 6"99, alongside Olympic gold medalist Alfred, who won her semifinal in 7"0.

Zaynab Dosso in action

At the Indoor Athletics World Championships, Italy wins its second gold. After yesterday's triumph by Andy Diaz in the triple jump, today a fantastic, extraordinary, and tremendous Nandia Battocletti won the 3000 title in 8'57" and after the Olympic and World silver in the 10,000, the World bronze in the 5000, not to mention a series of European titles across track, road, and cross country, she takes the gold in her first Indoor World Championship.

And from 21 there will be support for two more Italians in contention for the podium. At 21:02, the 60-meter hurdles final is scheduled with Lorenzo Simonelli, silver medalist from two years ago in the World Championship in Glasgow, and the 60-meter final with Zaynab Dosso, the seasonal leader with 6"99, alongside Olympic 100-meter champion Alfred, who won his semifinal in 7"0.

In the pole vault, everything went as predicted with "Mondo" Duplantis, the Swede who arrived in Torun after his 15th world record with 6.31, winning the competition by clearing 6.25.

And tomorrow is the final day, and the excitement will not be lacking as four Italians are in contention for medals: Larissa Iapichino, indoor European champion, in the long jump final (starting at 10:10); Leonardo Fabbri in the shot put (at 11:30) and with him in the ring is also Ponzio, World bronze medalist and current seasonal leader with a mark of 22.50; in the afternoon, all eyes will be on 18:38 for the 1500 final where we have a Federico Riva in great form; closing at 19:12 with the long jump final where the World champion Mattia Furlani will be in the ring after a 2025 to remember: double indoor world gold in Nanjing and outdoor in Tokyo.

Remarkable world record in the heptathlon by Simon Ehammer. The Swiss athlete scored 6670 points, after running the final 1000 meters in 2'41"04, breaking Ashton Eaton's 14-year-old record (6645 in the Istanbul 2012 edition).