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Stop comparing me to mum when I have more medals - Iapichino (2)
Fiona May s daughter set to make national team debut
04 Marzo 2021
ROME, MAR 4 - Italian long jump sensation Larissa
Iapichino said Thursday she dies not expect the comparisons with
her mother, twice world champion Fiona May, to stop any time
soon. I think the comparisons will stop when I have won more medals
than her, the 18-year-old told a video-conference before her
debut with the national team at the European Athletics Indoor
Championships.
Iapichino holds the world lead with her recent jump of 6.91
metres in Ancona.
But she played down the high expectations of her.
Wednesday, 3 March 2021
European Athletics will stage the first multi-discipline championships in the sport since the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic when the 36
th edition of its Indoor Championships start at the Torun Arena in Poland tomorrow.
Among the world-class athletes who will be taking advantage of this landmark opportunity will be Norway’s 20-year-old European 1500 and 5,000 metres champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who will seek to earn the 1500-3,000m double that just eluded him at these Championships in Glasgow two years ago.
On that occasion, having won the 3,000m title, Ingebrigtsen was tracked and outsprinted to 1,500m gold by Poland’s Marcin Lewandowski, who will contest both events for a host country seeking to top the medal table at the Indoor Championships for a third successive time.