{"id":3572,"date":"2026-05-17T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:09:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:09:05","slug":"road-to-the-golden-gala-furlani-jumps-8-43-lyles-runs-9-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/road-to-the-golden-gala-furlani-jumps-8-43-lyles-runs-9-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Road to the Golden Gala: Furlani jumps 8.43, Lyles runs 9.95"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As anticipation builds for the <strong>Golden Gala Pietro Mennea<\/strong> in Rome (June 4), several of the stars set to compete at the Olympic Stadium delivered impressive performances over the weekend between the opening Wanda Diamond League meeting in Shanghai\/Keqiao and the Continental Tour Gold event in Tokyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The headline performance came from Italy\u2019s Mattia <strong>Furlani<\/strong>, the local idol and long jump world champion, who soared to a personal best of 8.43 metres in China, four centimetres farther than the mark that earned him world gold in Tokyo last September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahead of the Golden Gala, four other athletes expected in Rome also claimed victories in their events: Jamaica\u2019s Nickisha <strong>Pryce <\/strong>won the 400 metres in 49.75, Ireland\u2019s Mark <strong>English <\/strong>took the 800 metres in 1:43.85, Ethiopia\u2019s Birke <strong>Haylom <\/strong>clocked a world-leading 3:55.56 in the 1500 metres, and American hurdler Jamal <strong>Britt <\/strong>captured the 110-metre hurdles in 13.07.<br><br>In Tokyo, one of the most anticipated stars for the Golden Gala also opened his season in style. Olympic champion Noah <strong>Lyles <\/strong>stormed to victory in the 100 metres with a time of 9.95 (+0.6) in his debut race over the distance this year. Joining him in Rome will be fellow American Jordan <strong>Anthony<\/strong>, the world indoor 60-metre champion, who won the 200 metres in 20.05.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As anticipation builds for the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea in Rome (June 4), several of the stars...","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":3569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3577,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions\/3577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}