Italian Champs - Anna Giordano Bruno 4.60

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Bruno and Schembri highlight the Italian championships in Milan


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Milan, Italy - Italian Pole Vault record holder Anna Giordano Bruno and Triple Jumper Fabrizo Schembri produced the best result at the Italian Championships in Milan over the weekend, which returned to the Northern Italian City after nine years.

Milan hosted the 99th edition of the Italian Championships in the historic Napoleonic Arena Civica on a very hot weekend with the temperature rising to over 30°C.

Bruno continues steady climb in the vault, improves to 4.60m

Bruno, a European Indoor finalist in Torino 2009, improved her PB again from 4.55m to 4.60m (tenth best performance in the world this year). Not content with her new record, Anna tried three unsuccesful attempts at 4.65m. Bruno vaulted her previous national records in Lignano Sabbiadoro on 12 July with 4.46m and then in Trieste last week with 4.51m and 4.55m. In Milan she raised the bar to 4.60m which she vaulted in her first attempt. It is an impressive performance for the graduate in mathematics at the University of Udine who is not a full-time athlete, as she trains only in the afternoon after her job at the University of Padua where she works as a researcher.

Bruno, who is coached by Slovenian Igor Lapajne, set her 12th national record (nine outdoors and three indoors)and won her fifth national title, her third in a row outdoors.

“I started with pole vault in 1997,” Bruno said. “Last year I had a PB of 4.41 but I knew that I could jump higher but in 2008 I faced difficult conditions. I live in San Vito al Tagliamento but I move to Nova Goriza to be coached by Igor Lapajne. I did not expect a new record because I thought that 4.55 was a great result for me.”