European bronze medallist Francesco Fortunato took almost 13 seconds off the world short track record when winning the 5000m race walk in 17:54.48 at the Italian Indoor Championships in Ancona yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Italian race walker had clocked 17:55.65 at these championships last year, but the performance was not ratified due to a technical judging issue, meaning Mikhail Shchennikov\u2019s 18:07.08 clocking from 1995 remained the ratified world short track record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m satisfied with myself,\u201d said Fortunato. \u201cI came here to try again and I didn\u2019t give up. After the disappointment last year, I felt this was a record I deserved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elsewhere, European indoor champion Larissa Iapichino won the women\u2019s long jump with 6.78m and Gabriele Chil\u00e0 won the men\u2019s event with 8.00m. 2021 Olympic champion Antonella Palmisano claimed the women\u2019s 3000m race walk title in 11:56.74.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On a busy weekend of national indoor championships action, Emmanouil Karalis was another standout performer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The world and Olympic medallist cleared 6.17m at the Greek Indoor Championships in Paiania to move to second on the world all-time list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He cleared the height on his second attempt, and then raised the bar to 6.31m and had two ambitious attempts at a would-be world record. He now sits behind only world record-holder Mondo Duplantis on the world all-time list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Greek star is set to face Duplantis for the first time this season at the Mondo Classic meeting in Uppsala on 12 March, ahead of the World Athletics Indoor Championships Kujawy Pomorze 26 later that month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yemisi Ogunleye produced the early stand-out performance at the German Indoor Championships in Dortmund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Olympic shot put champion threw an outright PB of 20.37m to win the title by almost two metres from Katharina Maisch. Ogunleye’s mark is an improvement of 10cm on her previous best, set at last year’s German Indoor Championships. It puts her second on this year’s world list behind world champion Jessica Schilder (20.49m).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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