Roma 2024 – Daily Round up Day 1: Dramatic opening day as Italians claim golden double at Roma 2024

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Roma 2024 – Daily Round up Day 1: Dramatic opening day as Italians claim golden double at Roma 2024 The host nation celebrated a golden double on the opening day of the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships. Olympic champion Antonella Palmisano won the women’s 20k walk, the opening event of Roma 2024, and then Nadia Battocletti bookended a brilliant day for the home nation by winning a thrilling women’s 5000m final. It was a day of firsts at the Stadio Olimpico as Krisjan Ceh became the first ever Slovenian male to win a gold medal, taking the men’s discus title and Ireland’s 4x400m mixed relay team became the only Irish gold medallists in European Athletics Championships 90 year history other than distance great Sonia O’Sullivan, dashing Femke Bol’s triple gold ambitions. There was also a Dutch 1-2 in the women’s shot. Top News – Day 1 Records set – Day 1 2 Championship records  Nadia Battocletti, ITA in the 5000 Metres – 14:35.29 Ireland, IRL in the 4×400 Metres Relay Mixed – 3:09.92 7 National Records 35 Personal bests 2 World Leading performances 2 European Leading performances   Quote of the day – Valentina Trapletti, ITA “If Antonella Palmisano is the queen of Rome, I am the princess! I dreamed so long for this result and when you dream of something for a long time and work hard to achieve it, when it finally happens, you can hardly believe. Now I will go on working on it: I achieve this medal at 38 and I understood that it’s never too late.”  All you need to know for Day 2 Ingebrigtsen goes for gold Norwegian superstar Jakob Ingebrigtsen launches the defence of his European titles in the men’s 5000m final on Saturday night at the Stadio Olimpico. There is also a fascinating men’s long jump featuring Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece, Italy’s rising star Mattia Furlani and Switzerland’s Simon Ehammer, who set a world lead in qualifying. With the men’s shot, men’s 100m and both sprint hurdles finals, men’s 20k walk, women’s discus and the conclusion of the heptathlon, it is another unmissable day at Roma 2024. • Timetable of Day 2 • Watch the action • Live results • Live blog

Source: European Athletics

Stats by K Ken Nakamura:

DT
67.50 by Alekna is the second longest DT (behind 69.06 by Ceh from 2022) in qualifying round of European Championships.
It is also 12th longest throw in European Championships

800m first round
1:44.73 by Anselmini is the fastest first round time of 800m in Euro Champ;
it is also 8th fastest time of 800m in Euro Champ

LJ qualifying

8.41 by Ehammer is the third long jump in Euro Champ; it is also a longest jump in qualifying round of Euro Champ

W3000mSC
9:30.00 by Rutto is the fastest first round time of W3000mSC in Euro Champ

In the second heat the time was improved.
9:29.28 by Finot is the fastest first round time of W3000mSC in Euro Champ

Heptathlon
1.95 by Thiam is the third highest HJ during Euro Champ Heptathlon

SP qualifying
21.10 by Fabri is the fourth longest SP in qualifying round of Euro Champ

Women 20Km Walk
0 second difference between 3rd and 4th is the smallest ever for W20kmWalk in European Championships

First gold for ITA in W20km walk although Italian has won 10km walk previously

ITA went one-two at W20km walk. Previously they went one-two at W10km walk, but only RUS want 1-2 at 20km Walk

1:28:08 is the 10th fastest time of W20km Walk in European Championships

DT
Ceh won first gold for SLO at DT in Euro Championships

Second medals for all three medalist. Ceh improved his silver from 2 years ago to gold, while Alekna won bronze to add to his gold 2 years ago.
Weissmuller also improved his bronze four years ago to Silver

First loss for Alekna this year.

WSP
18.77 is the shortest winning mark since 1990 at WSP in European Championships

For the second consecutive championships, NED won two medals by same athletes in WSP in European Championships
Gold and Bronze two years ago, and gold and silver today.

Jessica Schilder became fifth WSP to win this event multiple times.

W5000m

14:35.29 by Nadia Battocletti is a championships record.

winning margin of 3.33 sec is the third largest for W5000m in Euro Champ

0.42 sec is the second smallest difference between 3rd and 4th for W5000m in Euro Champ

Best marks for places for first to at least 10th were recorded

First gold, actually first medal, for ITA by Battocletti