VIDEO | Larissa Iacopino as mother Fiona May: when the long jump is a family matter

The hug on the final evening of the European Athletics Championships will remain in history

ROME – The embrace between the stars of the Italian long jump, on the final evening of the European Athletics Championships, will remain in history. First because it involved a mother and her daughter and then, because the first, Fiona May, wrote the first blue pages of the discipline with her own triumphs strong>, two world titles, two silver medals at the Olympic Games and a silver at the European Championships in Budapest in 1998.

THE SAME MEDAL WINN BY MUM

The same medal won by Larissa Iapichino yesterday at the Olympic stadium in Rome, on the final evening of the continental event. In the grandstand, where the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, and the highest institutional and sporting officials were present, their emotional embrace lasted an infinite time.

PAPA GIANNI FORMER ITALIAN RECORD-holder OF THE AUCTION

A lot of satisfaction also for Larissa’s father, Gianni Iapichino, former Italian auction record holder and current coach of the Italian team. Among the most important moments of the sporting journey by Larissa there is the sensational 6.91 in Ancona in 2021, the under 20 indoor world record, which equaled the absolute national indoor record held by her mother Fiona. In 2023 she improved again with the Italian indoor record of 6.97after tying him again for the silver medal at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul. Outdoors he made his debut with a personal best of 6.83 against the wind and won three stages of the Diamond League: Golden Gala in Florence, Stockholm and Monte Carlo arriving at 6.95 after winning the European U23 title in Espoo with 6.93.