Filippo Randazzo (athlete)

Filippo Randazzo
Full name	Filippo Randazzo
nation	Italy
birthday	27th April 1996 (age 24)
place of birth	Caltagirone ,  Italy
size	190 cm
Weight	73 kg
Career
discipline	Long jump
Best performance	8.12 m
society	GS Fiamme Gialle
Trainer	Andrea Matarazzo
status	active
Medal table
U23 European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × U20 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
U23 European Championships silver Bydgoszcz 2017 Long jump  U20 European Championships bronze Eskilstuna 2015 Long jump
last change: July 29, 2020

Filippo Randazzo (born April 27, 1996 in Caltagirone ) is an Italian athlete who specializes in the long jump .

Life

Filippo Randazzo, who was born in Sicily, grew up in the city of San Cono . At the age of 14 he began training in athletics in the town of Valguarnera Caropepe , after having been certified as having great jumping talent . He initially trained with Carmelo Giarrizzo until 2018, before moving to the capital Rome to continue training there under the guidance of Andrea Matarazzo. Randazzo is a football enthusiast and a fan of Juventus Turin .

Athletic career

In 2012, Randazzo took part in the Italian youth championships for the first time. In September he took part in the U18 championships, where he was fifth in the long jump and sixth in the triple jump. A year later he was able to take part in the long jump at the U18 World Championships in Donetsk. He reached the final, in which he finished tenth with 7.29 m. In October he improved at the Italian U18 championships to 7.56 m, with which he won the title. In 2014 he was able to improve a little, but was eliminated from the qualification at the U10 World Championships in Eugene, where he fell well short of his best performance from the year of 7.60 m. With 7.06 m he finished 22nd after qualifying. In 2015 he won the Italian Adult Championships for the first time and also took part in the U20 European Championships in Eskilstuna. He moved into the final, in which he managed to improve his personal best to 7.74 m, which earned him the bronze medal.

In 2016 he won the bronze medal with 7.75 m at the U23 Mediterranean Championships in Tunis, although he was plagued by a muscle injury throughout the season. The 2017 season started for Randazzo with his first jump over 8 meters. At the Italian Indoor Championships in February, he came to 8.05 m, with which he won the silver medal. Since then, the width has been his hall best. A month later he started at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade. He managed to get into the final, in which he came to 7.77 m, which meant seventh place. In July he started at the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz. there he succeeded in the qualification in the first competition jump over 8 meters in the open air. In the final he stayed just under eight meters, but still won the silver medal. A month later he started at the Universiade in Taipei. There, too, he moved into the final, in which he came in seventh place. In 2018 he couldn't get anywhere near his best performance. It wasn't until August 2019 that he managed to improve to 8.07 m. In 2020, in July, in the first competition after the lockdown ended in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic , he jumped his personal best of 8.12 m.

So far, Randazzo has been Italian champion four times (2015, 2017-2019).

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	Expanse
Starts for Italy
2013	Youth World Championships	Donetsk	10.	Long jump	7.29 m
2014	U20 world championships	Eugene	22nd	Long jump	7.06 m
2015	U20 European Championships	Eskilstuna	3.	Long jump	7.74 m
2017	European Indoor Championships	Belgrade	7th	Long jump	7.77 m
	U23 European Championships	Bydgoszcz	2.	Long jump	7.98 m
	Universiade	Taipei	7th	Long jump	7.53 m

Personal best

open air

• Long jump : 8.12 m, July 16, 2020, Savona

Hall

• Long jump: 8.05 m, February 18, 2017, Ancona

Web links

• Filippo Randazzo in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Filippo Randazzo in the database of European Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry at FIDAL. Retrieved July 29, 2020. (Italian)
2. ↑ Results on iaaf.org