Andy Diaz, with a single jump valid from 17.80, It is gold medal in the triple jump at the World Athletics World Championships In progress in Nanchino, China. The blue athlete, after the success at the Indoor European Championships in Holland, also hits the Italian record.
The indoor national primacy belonged to Fabrizio Donato (Diaz coach) with 17.73, made in Paris in 2011. The outdoor record (17.75 is already from the Italian-Cuban athlete).
Dark glasses, blue hood to cover the braids, a mood to be pop star. Andy Diaz sets foot on the platform relaxed and convinced. And it is immediately Fuego. At the first jump ‘kill’ the race with a fabulous 17.80 (leaving just over six centimeters to the detachment), a flight beyond the Italian primacy that already belonged to him from the 2023 Golden Gala in Florence (17.75) and which reiterates his world leadership of the season (17.71 at the Indoor European Championships).
A measure that also exceeds the best national performance of always indoor, for the happiness of coach Donato who had centered it in Paris in 2011 (17.73). The second jump without even detaching, renounces the third, and in the meantime Simone Biasutti brings to 16.37 and exceeds the first ‘cut’ giving himself a fourth jump, null, to close in tenth place. Diaz also passes the fourth and fifth attempt, then puts the nails for the sixth round (null), almost with tears in the eyes for the emotion, among the applause of the many Chinese children present in the stands, before the big party can begin.
“I like to keep the word, I said I would have won and did it”, The ‘hot’ comment of an excited diaz. It is an exciting story, that of Andy. The escape from Cuba to return from the Tokyo Olympics, The arrival in Italy, the nights spent on the street waiting for a new life and then the decisive meeting with Fabrizio Donato, his sports idol, contacted on Instagram and became not only a coach but an older brother, so much so as to welcome Andy in his house.
The membership with Libertas Unicusano Livorno, the Italian citizenship obtained for sporting merits, the entry into yellow flames, a group that cradles it to Castelporziano. And the rest is recent history, made of three medals and a dizzying growth, now on the threshold of eighteen meters, the excellence of the specialty.
