Iapichino and Johansson sail through to the long jump final
(WorldNews Europe)

Italy`s Larissa Iapichino and Sweden`s Tilde Johansson both surpassed the automatic qualifying mark of 6.35m with their first attempts in the long jump at the Boras 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships. Contesting the same event some 32 years after her mother Fiona May won the European U20 title in Birmingham in 1987, Iapichino led the two pools of qualifying with 6.50m with a 1.0 m/s wind at her back to safely progress into the final. `I`m one of the youngest here so I just want to have fun and get some experience - if I get a good result, even better,` said Iapichino, adding that she tries to...