By Mustafa Taha
The host country, which completed a double in the women's 20km on the first day, also completed a double in the men's 100 meters final. Olympic champion Marcel Jacobs, who has been out of form due to injuries, defended his title at home. Jacobs ran a season-best of 10.02 in front of thousands of Italians as defending his 100 metres title. The surprise of the night was Chituru Ali, who gets second place in the final with 10.05 PB. The Briton Romell Glave clocked 10.06 for the bronze to securing his first-ever international medal.
In the men's 110-meter hurdles, Lorenzo Simonelli brought his country its first high hurdling medal in 55 years after Eddy Ottoz did it in 1969. Simonelli, both U20 and U23 European medallist previously, ended a long medal drought with a stunning 13.05 mark - a new Italian record and European lead. Enrique Llopis of Spain claimed the silver medal with 13.16 while Jason Joseph took a bronze for Switzerland. Asier Martinez, the reigning European champion and world number three, was disappointing in fourth in 13.45.
Another gold medal for the Italians came in the men's shot put. Leonardo Fabbri, who won bronze at this year's indoor world championships in Glasgow after settling for silver in Budapest last year, brought his country a historic gold medal in the shot put, which was first in the event since 1950. Fabbri, looking unbeatable throughout the competition, set a championship record 22.45, and Filip Mihaljevic was distanced second in 21.20.
Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou has a massive jump during the Italian night. The Greek star established a new national record and championship best with a double-marked 8.65 metres. Tentoglu proved his fame about winning spirit in the main stages to collect yet another big title. However, Italians made a show up in the long jump final, too. Their super talent Mattia Furlani brought home a medal in the long jump after 18 years with a new world U20 record with 8.38. Swiss world medallist Simon Ehammer came third with 8.31 despite his amazing 8.41 during the qualies one day before.
Heptathlon queen Nafi Thiam, competing for the first time this season, improved Jessica Ennis-Hill's 14-year-old heptathlon championships record by 25 points to collect 6848 points. Surprising Frenchwoman Auriana Lazraq-Khlass was rewarded for her career best of 6635 points with second place in Europe while Belgian Noor Vidts was in the third spot at the podium. The Belgian heptathlete won her first outdoor European medal with 6596 points.
Arguably greatest performance of the night was belong to Cyrena Samba-Mayela of France. The young hurdler brought the European title to France after 34 years by crashing her own French record and 38-year-old championship record with an unbelievable 12.31 secs. The Swiss upcomer Ditaji Kambundji won silver in Rome with a U23 European record of 12.40 while defending champion Pia Skrzyszowska came third in 12.42.
Sandra Perkovic-Elkasevic continues to make history in the European championship. The legendary Croatian claimed her seventh back-to-back discus title in Rome by reaching 67.04 metres in her opening round effort.
She is the only person in the history of European Championships to have seven individual gold medals.
With a result of Italian surge, it was better for home spectators back to the stand in the evening session.
