Athletics: Bogliolo show, in Stockholm he wins 100 hs

A show that makes the Italy of athletics rejoice. No Azzurri had ever won in the global context of the Diamond League. Luminosa Bogliolo (Fiamme Oro) succeeded, at the Bauhaus-Galan, on the Stockholm track, certainly not facing the top-tier opponents that usually populate the top world track in athletics, but with a test that confirms their success. undoubted international value.
    For the 25 year old Ligurian from Alassio a first place with 12.88 (+1.4 the wind) and the feeling that there is still a lot of tweaking in the phase of exiting the blocks. Among the barriers, however, Bogliolo does not make any particular mistakes and there is none from the fifth obstacle onwards. And if winning helps to win, the hurdler coached by Ezio Madonia and Antonio Dotti is certainly getting a taste of it: the Finnish Lotta Harala remains far away, but on her best times, with the equalized staff of 13.07 and the Danish Mette Graversgaard is third, national record with 13.13. The race of the British heptathlon world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson was colorless, only sixth in 13.94.
    Bogliolo will be on track next weekend in Padua for the absolute Italian championships (open to the public, with a maximum of 500 spectators), in search of the Italian title and a time on the side of the national record of 12.76 by Veronica Borsi.
    "I don't consider it a good race, I wanted to start much better - Bogliolo commented -. I knew I had to beat Harala, which starts better among the four strongest. On the blocks I was convinced they gave us 'at the time' because the wait was it was really long, they waited for a jump from the pole plate.
    And when the starter fired I didn't really accelerate. Then from the first obstacle I decided to run as smoothly as possible. We have been working hard on it lately, because sometimes I force too much. I didn't think a 12.88 would come out like that. "