With Roma 2024 there is also athletics at San Siro

Rome 2024’s journey within sporting events continues. From Aug. 30 to Sept. 3, on the occasion of the European Jumping Championships (Fei Jumping European Championships Milano 2023), the Roma 2024 space dedicated to athletics is open inside the “Milano GreenVillage23” set up at the San Siro Hippodrome.

Technical instructors from the Atletica Meneghina society are available to the public to discover together the different disciplines of athletics. Young and old can try their hand at activities and games and become familiar with some of the tools such as starting blocks, hurdles and the vortex, used to introduce young athletes to javelin throwing.

The Roma 2024 space at “Milan GreenVillage23” is open until Sunday, Sept. 3 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with free admission.

Gianmarco Tamberi’s triumph.

A historic victory with an epic flavor that enriches Gianmarco Tamberi’s already rich trophy case of triumphs. The Italian high jump athlete climbed to the top step of the podium by reaching 2.36 meters. This is her first outdoor medal, after winning gold in indoor in 2016 and bronze in 2022. An outstanding result that came after a real escalation in which Tamberi surpassed his entry measure (2.25 meters) on his second attempt, then went on to surpass 2.29, 2.33, and reach 2.36 meters.
Tamberi’s first major victory came at the 2016 World Indoor Championships in Portland, becoming the first Italian to achieve this. Also in 2016, he triumphed at the European Championships in Amsterdam and achieved a new Italian high jump record with a measurement of 2.39 m at the Monte Carlo Meeting. In 2019 he won gold at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow and in 2021 silver at the European Indoor Championships in ToruÅ„. In the same year at the Tokyo Olympics he won the gold medal and in Zurich he became the first Italian to win the Diamond League. In 2022 at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade he won the EU bronze at the European Championships in Munich the gold.

Roma 2024 meets with top world athletics officials

Casa Italia, at the Ludwig Museum, an iconic structure dedicated to modern art, located a few hundred meters from the stadium, hosted an institutional meeting that featured Sebastian Coe, President World Athletics, Dobromir Karamarinov, President European Athletics, Stefano Mei President Fidal and EuroRoma 24, and Paolo Carito, General Manager of EuroRoma 24.
Among other topics discussed was the launch of the promotional campaign and ticket sales for the show scheduled to take place in Rome in a year’s time.

From Budapest to Rome: promotion for Roma 2024 continues

The national and international promotion campaign for the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships continues. After Grosseto and Molfetta, Roma 2024 will also play a starring role during the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
In fact, a dedicated corner is located at Fidal’s Casa Italia that will allow athletes and staff to be welcomed. In this way, the Roma 2024 brand will continue to consolidate and carve out an ever-expanding space of visibility.After the Budapest review, all energies and attentions will be turned to next year’s European Athletics Championships, to be held in Rome June 7-12, 2024.
It will be the last stage of important stature before the Olympic Games in Paris.
Meanwhile, the sale of tickets to Rome, with discounts just to coincide with the World Cup.

Roma 2024 ticket sales kick off: find out all the promotions

Six consecutive days of competition, eleven total sessions, and the chance to admire from the stands and curves of the Stadio Olimpico the best athletes on the continent. Starting today, august 17, 2023, the sale of tickets, season tickets and special packages for the European Athletics Championships to be held in Rome next summer, June 7-12, 2024, opens. Athletics fans around the world can now book a stadium seat ten months in advance to watch live the major international event that promises excitement and spectacle and will precede the start of the Paris Olympics by a month and a half.

The Roma 2024 competition program will include five morning and six evening sessions, in which it will be possible to follow live all the most anticipated finals that will also feature Italian champions: on the evening of Friday, June 7, 2024, the first medals will be awarded, starting with the women’s 20km march, which will end inside the Olympic Stadium. The June 8 program includes the highly anticipated men’s 100-meter final and the men’s long jump platform challenge. On the morning of Sunday, June 9, spectators inside the Stadio Olimpico will be able to enjoy the finish of the men’s and women’s half marathon, at the end of a route that will touch the most iconic places in Rome. On the evening of June 10 there will be room for six more finals, including a challenge between sprinters who will run the 200 meters. Within the June 11 program, medals in the men’s high jump and triple jump will be awarded. June 12 closes with ten overall finals, including the women’s long jump and the 4×100 and 4×400 relays.

Ticket sales are managed by Vivaticket, the ticketing advisor to the EuroRoma 2024 Foundation, which will ensure a smooth, secure and uniquely digital (paperless) purchasing experience, in full respect of the environment.
To make the European Athletics Championships even more accessible and engaging, there are special promotions aimed at athletics fans and families, with the possibility of purchasing tickets from the price of 5 euros and a 10 percent discount on the first five thousand coupons that will be issued during the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. Tickets valid for individual sessions and different types of subscriptions can be purchased as of today.

Find out all the details here

Rome 2024 Volunteers campaign kicks off

Registration is now open for the Roma 2024 Volunteers project. Starting today, all people interested in participating in the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships in an operational role can apply as volunteers. The application form and all the information needed to join the campaign are available in the Volunteers section of the Roma 2024 website.
The deadline for submitting applications is Dec. 31. As the Official HR Supplier, it will be Humangest that will manage the selection and training process of Roma 2024 volunteers and the subsequent assignment to the specific functional areas related to the organization.
“We can finally call together young and young athletics enthusiasts and the entire citizenry to participate in this exciting adventure. Roma 2024 Volunteers represents a central project in the Foundation’s vision to develop the themes of sustainability, innovation and well-being. Volunteers will contribute to the success of the great event and will thus be the first ambassadors of the values of athletics in the city and in all the venues where the competitions will be held,” says Paolo Carito, Director General of the EuroRoma 2024 Foundation

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Rome 2024’s journey starts from Grosseto and passes through Budapest

The national and international promotion campaign for the Rome 2024 European Athletics Championships begins in Grosseto and passes through Budapest. The Italian Junior Athletics Championships, scheduled from today until Sunday, July 23, in Grosseto, represent the first stage in a run-up to next summer’s big event: from June 7 to 12, 2024, Europe’s best athletes will compete at the Olympic Stadium, Foro Italico Park and among the streets of Rome, a month and a half before the start of the Paris Olympics. The Rome 2024 brand will be present within the spaces made available by organizers of other sporting events, athletics and otherwise, to bring and engage as many fans as possible to the European Championships.
In anticipation of the opening of ticket sales, gadgets with the Rome 2024 logo were distributed to the attending public in Grosseto. The campaign will continue at major athletic events organized by Fidal. After the Italian Junior Championships, it will be the turn of the Absolute National Track and Field Championships, scheduled for July 28-30 in Molfetta.
Next, the promotion of Rome 2024 will cross national borders and stop in Budapest, where the World Championships will be held from August 19 to 27. On that occasion, Rome 2024 will have its own dedicated “corner” inside the “Casa Atletica Italiana” set up by Fidal, which will serve as the headquarters of the Italian national team and its partners during the World Championships. At the end of the Budapest event, the great European champions will meet in Rome, which will be the final testing ground for the athletes ahead of the Olympic Games in Paris. Athletics and more.
Rome 2024 will also be present at the “Milano Greenvillage23” that will be set up inside the Snai San Siro Hippodrome during the big equestrian event, the European Show Jumping – FEI Jumping European Championship Milano 2023 – scheduled from August 30 to September 3. Inside Greenvillage23 the public can try their hand at various sports activities, including athletics. 

Larissa Iapichino is already ready: “I expect you in the Metaverse of Rome 2024”

A specialist already ready to jump into the future. Young Italian long jump champion Larissa Iapichino will be the first athlete to join the Rome 2024 Metaverse.
Looking forward to exploring the new digital environment developed by the EuroRoma 2024 Foundation together with XMetaReal, Iapichino addressed users around the world with a video message.
“I am very, very happy to be the first to enter the Metaverse of athletics and beyond. I look forward to seeing you in great numbers … see you in Rome 2024,” the words of Larissa Iapichino, who in Espoo, Finland, became European Under-23 champion in the long jump, with a measure of 6.93.
This success was in addition to the silver medal won at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul and the triumph achieved together with fellow members of the Italian national athletics team at the European Team Championships in Poland.

A specialist already ready to jump into the future. Young Italian long jump champion Larissa Iapichino will be the first athlete to join the Rome 2024 Metaverse.
Looking forward to exploring the new digital environment developed by the EuroRoma 2024 Foundation together with XMetaReal, Iapichino addressed users around the world with a video message.
“I am very, very happy to be the first to enter the Metaverse of athletics and beyond. I look forward to seeing you in great numbers … see you in Rome 2024,” the words of Larissa Iapichino, who in Espoo, Finland, became European Under-23 champion in the long jump, with a measure of 6.93.
This success was in addition to the silver medal won at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul and the triumph achieved together with fellow members of the Italian national athletics team at the European Team Championships in Poland.

Roma 2024 jumps into the Metaverse along with Larissa Iapichino

A sporting event to be experienced physically inside the stadium and on the streets of the city but also remotely, immersing oneself within a new interactive digital environment. The Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships will have a “phygital” dimension, thanks to the innovative project developed by the EuroRoma 2024 Foundation and the company XMetaReal, which specializes in creating experiences, services and content within the Metaverse.
The dream of Roma 2024 is also taking shape in the digital world. In fact, starting in September, all athletics fans will have a space dedicated to them and will be able to start exploring the sites of the European Championships, where the continent’s best athletes will compete next summer. This will be a unique and immersive experience, never before experienced for a sporting event in Italy, with strong appeal to younger generations and beyond.

Young Italian Larissa Iapichino, who has just graduated as European Under-23 champion in the long jump in Finland after her silver medal at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul and her triumph with Italy at the recent European Team Championships in Poland, will be the first athlete to join the Roma 2024 Metaverse as an official testimonial of the project. “While the countdown to next year’s European Championships at the Olympic Stadium has already begun, I can’t wait to jump into the Roma 2024 Metaverse and use my avatar to meet other visitors. The virtual world can be a positive opportunity to bring new people, especially young people, closer to the disciplines of athletics, broadening the audience of spectators even in reality. It will be an honor for me to participate in such an innovative project, in which technology becomes a real springboard to consolidate Roma 2024 as an event capable of intercepting and enhancing new trends in society,” Iapichino said.

As the Metaverse Experience Supplier for Roma 2024, XMetaReal will build a new digital environment inspired by the venues that will host the European Athletics Championships. The Roma 2024 Metaverse will open in September, nine months before the start of the competition, which will be held June 7-12, 2024. The spatiotemporal limits of reality will thus be overcome, to grant the opportunity for anyone to experience Rome 2024 as if they were in the “physical” places. Connected users from all over the world will be able to visit the Metaverse using an avatar, move from place to place by teleportation, take a full tour of the Olympic Stadium track, and preview where the platforms for jumps and throws will be placed on the field during the European Championships. This will provide fans of the various disciplines of athletics with a new tool to select and reserve the ideal stadium seat to watch their favorite competitions live next summer.
To explore the Roma 2024 Metaverse, it will be enough to connect with the most common mobile and fixed devices, while those wearing VR visors, designed specifically for Virtual Reality, will have an even more immersive experience. Users will also be able to interact with digital assets and receive Roma 2024 tokens, redeeming full ownership.

During the experience inside the Metaverse one can also move among the avenues and squares of the Foro Italico Park and visit the Commercial Village, where digital stores will be opened. A new channel made available to the event’s partners, which amplifies and extends commercial opportunities over time, in anticipation of the opening of outlets at the Foro Italico during the European Championships.
“The partnership with XMetaReal to create the Metaverse will mark a turning point in the organization of the European Championships and will allow athletics fans to immerse themselves in a modern, interactive and immersive space. Innovation is one of the key concepts in our plan, and with the Roma 2024 Metaverse we will offer audiences around the world a unique experience with a powerful impact,” said Paolo Carito, general manager of the EuroRoma 2024 Foundation, which is organizing the European Athletics Championships.
“The creation of the Metaverse for Roma 2024 opens up new scenarios and new ways of experiencing sport in an innovative and inclusive way. The possibility of transforming a sporting event into a social event, expanding the audience and spreading the values of sport is now the reality, physical and digital together. We should be proud as “Sistema Italia” to have given birth to such an important initiative. Embracing digital innovation in such a special field as sports really means cultivating a forward-looking mindset. One more “leap forward” toward the Digital Transformation of our country,” concludes Vittorio Zingales, founder and Ceo of XMetaReal.

Italian athletes in history: triumph in the European team competition

A chase that has lasted decades, ideally since 1965, when the European Cup, a continental team event conceived by Italian manager extraordinaire Bruno Zauli (and later dedicated to him), got under way. Since then, amid changes in format (today the review is called European Teams, and is a true tournament among all the countries of the old continent) never had Italy managed to win it. Until, precisely, today, when the spell was broken. It happened in Chorzow, not far from Katowice, Poland, with the blue team triumphing at the end of three days of extraordinarily intense confrontations. In the final session of competition, two Italian successes (seven in total in the event) came thanks to Zane Weir in the shot put (with an excellent 21.59) and Gianmarco Tamberi in the high jump (2.29). Second place for Larissa Iapichino in the long jump (6.66, no wind), thirds for Filippo Tortu in the 200m (20.61, v. -1.3 m/s) and Yeman Crippa in the 5000m (13:34.29). And a superlative overall tightness. The final ranking rewards Italy (426.5 points) by a wide margin over Poland (402.5, so a good 24 lengths away). Third place for Germany, fourth for Spain, fifth to Great Britain. Seven individual successes for the Italian team, as already mentioned (in the previous days victories of Nadia Battocletti in the 5000 meters, Sara Fantini in the hammer, Samuele Ceccarelli in the 100, Alessandro Sibilio in the 400hs, Tobia Bocchi in the triple jump), but also first place in the medal table of the European Games, where Italy collected 14 medals (6 gold, 5 silver, 3 bronze). An unparalleled haul. “My thoughts are with Bruno Zauli,” commented Federal President Stefano Mei, “who invented this event: today we have paid tribute to a great man and a great president. Our boys deserve the attention of the whole world, not just Europe. This is the result of the daily work of the clubs on the ground: they are the ones who discover and grow these talents, who then become champions. In these two and a half years the results have been extraordinary, the boys never cease to surprise me.”

Read the article on the Fidal website