Diana Ana Maria Ion won the silver medal in the triplusalt test, on Friday night, at the European Athletics Championships in the Hall (the Netherlands).
Diana Ion, performer of the Romanian team. Photo Getty Images
The 24-year-old Romanian was not among the favorites, qualifying in the final with the seventh performance (13.88 meters) of the 8 athletes that have taken the last act. But Diana Ion hit all the forecasts and managed to jump the career: 14.31 meters, Best Personal, with whom he ranked, only 6 centimeters from Ana Peletar-Compaore (Spain), the one who conquered gold. The other opponents in the final did not reach the barrier of the 14 meters.
A handful of medals over the past 10 years
Romania participates with 7 athletes in the Europeans from Apeldoorn, but none has succeeded so far in any final. At the last edition of the European rooms, in 2023, in Istanbul, our country won a silver medal through Claudia Bobocea (1,500 m) and a bronze one through Gabriel Bitan (length). These came after 8 years of drought for Romanian athletics (in 2015, in Prague, Marian Oprea and Florentina Marincu took the bronze at – triplusalt, respectively the jump in length).
