Day Six Highlights | European Athletics Championships | Roma 2024

12 June 2024 - The sixth and final evening in Roma was another treat for the fans!

As customary on the final day, the relay races provided plenty of excitement on the track. Italy’s squad, including individual 100m champion Marcell Jacobs, was victorious in the men’s 4x100m, and the British women took the gold, making it two for Dina Asher-Smith and finally a gold for Daryll Neita who narrowly missed out over 200m the day before. Femke Bol and the Dutch team triumphed in the women’s 4x400m race and Alexander Doom brought it home for the Belgian men’s quartet.

Over the middle distances, Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen made it a double gold at these championships with a confident win over 1500m, while British 800m runner Keely Hodgkinson defended her 800m title. Switzerland’s Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu secured a gold in the men’s 10000m race.

On the field, three events closed the championships. In the pole vault, Mondo Duplantis, in a league of his own as usual, took the title, jumped 6.10m and had three close attempts at a new world record. In the women’s long jump, German Malaika Mihambo won gold; silver went to rising Italian star Larissa Iapichino, much to the joy of the home crowd.
German javelin thrower Julian Weber was in the lead from his first attempt right until the final round, when Czech Jakub Vadlejch came up with the winning throw.

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[WonderWhatHappened]

Best highlight video of any channel on YouTube for any sport. Olympic Channel take notes.

[Khristian_Kiichtelisvaara]

Italians! You are turning the course of athletics history around! Well done! Good luck at the European Football Championship!

[LISANAIGAlB]

I’m in the US and am SO grateful for these incredibly well done recaps. I have watched each days recap at least a couple times each. Thank you for the efforts in making them.

[cosmicpuma]

Respect and congratulations to the Italian Federation for not only focusing on the hosting but also getting its athletes in amazing condition to compete and give their home fans so much to cheer about. 🙌 Forza Italia🇮🇹 The Olympics are going to be off the chain! Sending positive vibes to all athletes from South Africa 🇿🇦

[babyelian]

Italy was unstoppable in this Euro championship, their previous record was Splalato (in the '90, iirc) with 12 medals, while this year they have gotten 24 medals in total, an amazing improvement and results. Congratulations !

[tm_]

I was in the stadium atmosphere was electrifying...Italy is experimenting a magic in athletics. Unforgettable the roar of the crowd when Tortu got the baton with the final stretch open .... people got crazy, it was like a scream of freedom 🔥🔥

And all the area of Foro Italico outside the stadium is absolutely unique in the world so typical of Rome and underrated touristically

[MisterMediocrity-uugx]

Tortu is one of the best 4x100 anchors ever.

[jordanjordannis]

Man I'm just happy to see Malaika Mihambo back competing in time to defend her title. This Euro champs has announced European athletes as a potential dominating force at the Olympics in 2 months, and Italy really has stepped up in the past couple years to lead them. Thank you to European Athletics for bringing us high quality recaps!

[francescojsb]

ITALY MEDAL WINNER !!!
- 11 gold (almost 3 times the seconds with 4)
- 9 silvers (almost double the seconds with 5)
- 4 bronzes
- 24 medals in total, first ahead of everyone

[skyjuke]

AMAZING 😍 4x100🇮🇹🥇🥇🥇🥇
Filippo Tortu, Lorenzo Patta, Marcell Jacobs, Matteo Melluzzo
Without Chituru Alì!🥈

[Melonzy]

I always say that Italian anchor leg in the 4x100 m is lethal

[brigitokeka]

So happy for Mihambo...she rediscovered her form just in time for the olympics.
Alexander Doom is absolutely crazy. The first few months I've been watching him and it never gets boring

[joaoferreira]

Femke Bol running is poetry in motion, fabulous!

[andreapecci]

Duplantis is a monster. I was there yesterday at the stadium and is on another level of the competion. Doing an attempt then chlling around for an hour, doing another attempt and so on, it puts smile of your face. Happy also for others pole vault athletes

[yangqisu]

bol showed precision control in the last lap, just enough to get the win, not too much to risk injury

[delta_tango_dt]

Thanks for the highlights from Jamaica 🇯🇲. This has been an amazing European Championships to watch and the coverage has been great. You guys seem ready to go in Paris. All the best.

[atedejong]

Amazing Ingebritsen, just testing strategies..starting at the back 2 seconds behind, then getting into the lead with 2.5 laps to go and slowly increasing temp, with a last lap of 53 seconds...insane. testing himself for upcoming Olympics

[patrickhiggins]

all these sports people are magic. im from ireland. im proud of all of them.

[hayfron]

Italys relay team are definitely world class..

[maxdgr]

Tortu even slowed down near the finish 😮...Italian domination 👊🇮🇹👏👀👍💪