Filippo Tortu is Milanese, in force at Yellow Flames and he is waving the flag high making us proud of him. Even the grandfather was a sprinter who ran the 100 in 10.9, as well as his father and brother, so a passion that runs in the blood. One race after another, between victories and non-negligible injuries, such as in Nanjing who fell on the finish line, with a fracture of the radius and ulna in both arms, the boy does not give up easily, and despite a precautionary stop due to growth problems, in 2016 he set the junior national record of the 100 by darting in 10.24, and then he qualified second in the 100 at the Under 20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz.
In 2017 he collected several Italian junior records, and in 2018 he became the second Italian ever to run 100 meters with 10.03 just two cents from the record of Pietro Mennea, beaten on June 22 in Madrid running in 9.99 and we can officially say that the there is fabric! Filippo seems to have no crickets in his head, who after graduating from high school studies business and management at the Luiss in Rome and continues to train with enthusiasm, because he seems to be very hungry, hungry to devour hundredths of a second and win.
European goal for Filippo Tortu
During the press conference that celebrated Madrid's 100-meter record, snatched from Pietro Mennea, Tortu now aims to do well and better at the “Europeans” and to do so his team is developing a winning strategy.
In front of the press after this splendid result, Filippo had his family at his side, full of enthusiasm, because the result first thrilled him, and then many Italians who want to rejoice and rejoice again for a good Italian result. And he, with his genuineness, made it clear that he was charged; at the beginning of a career that was born under the best auspices and with the best premises. Therefore i European championships are the real focal point of the season, aiming to do even better to access the final in Berlin, even knowing that there are many opponents to beat and they look like giants. What matters now is to maintain, indeed improve the condition to be able to gnaw a few cents, winking even at the two hundred meters, which are not really his specialty, but who knows! Thanks to the work of an excellent athletic trainer and the meticulousness of his coach father, Filippo could go under 20 seconds, and then why not dream of seeing a medal sparkle? A great wave of enthusiasm is pushing the athlete in force at the Fiamme Gialle, in fact, the video of the 100 has garnered hundreds of thousands of views and is still growing.
A sprinter between Kitekat and reactive feet
Before that video where the record is stamped, Philip seems to have eaten a Kitkat listening to some music in total relaxation, and then victory came with a taste that tasted of chocolate mixed with indescribable joy.
Expected for two whole years, between an injury, a few falls and always a great desire to get up, our record holder of theathletics today he is charged, probably because he was born into a family born to run and perhaps he is even devoted to flying. It seems that his father Salvino in unsuspected times, challenged the future mother of his children on the track on the 100 meters giving her a little advantage, but she won, and a few years later, when Giacomo, Filippo Tortu's older brother, won one of the first competitions, he told her that that son had reactive feet and had certainly inherited them in the maternal line, and he had understood this from that initial challenge that he had the right girl to marry in front of him. Strange way to find a wife, however test passed and now we await the sparkle of Filippo's medals!
