Overview
- Italy left the World Indoor Championships in Toruń over the weekend with five medals and a third-place finish in the table behind the United States and Great Britain.
- Portugal’s Gerson Baldè won the men’s long jump with a sixth-round 8.46, passing 21-year-old Mattia Furlani, who matched his 8.39 personal best for silver after a night of illness.
- FIDAL president Stefano Mei is preparing a Rome bid for the 2029 or 2031 outdoor Worlds, with pre-candidacy documents due to World Athletics by April 3.
- Mei plans meetings with ministers Giancarlo Giorgetti and Andrea Abodi this week to secure government guarantees, which World Athletics requires before it evaluates a host city.
- The record haul came from a young core—Zaynab Dosso in the 60 m, Nadia Battocletti in the 3000 m, Andy Díaz in the triple jump, and Larissa Iapichino in the long jump—bolstering a rise that began after Tokyo 2021 and sharpening calls for new indoor facilities in Italy.