Mattia Furlani

{{Short description|Italian long jumper and high jumper (born 2005)}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Mattia Furlani

| image = Mattia Furlani.jpg

| caption = Furlani at Silesia 2023

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|7 February 2005|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Marino, Lazio, Italy

| height = 1.84 m{{cite web |title=MATTIA FURLANI - XXXIII Giochi Olimpici Estivi Parigi 2024 |url=https://parigi2024.coni.it/en/italia-team/athletes/scheda_atleta/2492:MATTIA_FURLANI.html |website=coni.it |publisher=CONI |access-date=2 September 2024}}

| country = Italy

| sport = Athletics

| event = High jump, Long jump

| club = Fiamme Oro (2022–){{cite web |url=https://www.fidal.it/content/Furlani-sempre-show-campione-europeo-dell%E2%80%99alto!/141794 |title=Furlani sempre show: campione europeo dell’alto! |website=fidal.it |language=it |date=7 July 2022 |access-date=7 July 2022}}
Atletica Studentesca Rieti Andrea Milardi (2020–2021){{cite web |url=https://www.fidal.it/atleta/MATTIA-FURLANI/f6uRkpKlb2o%3D |title=Mattia Furlani Biografia |website=fidal.it |language=it |access-date=7 July 2022}}

| coach = Marcello Furlani

| retired =

| pb = *High jump: 2.17 m (2021)

Long jump: 8.38 m (2024) WU20R
Indoor long jump: 8.34 m (2024) indoor WU20R

| show-medals = yes

| medaltemplates = {{Medal|Sport|Men's athletics}}

{{Medal|Country|{{ITA}}}}

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Mattia Furlani (born 7 February 2005){{cite web |title=Mattia FURLANI – Athlete Profile |url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/italy/mattia-furlani-14905216 |website=World Athletics |access-date=1 January 2023}} is an Italian high jumper and long jumper. He won gold medals in both events at the 2022 European Under-18 Championships. Furlani holds the European U20 indoor record for the long jump. In May 2023, at age 18, he leapt 8.44 m with wind assistance in the event, a mark better than the world U20 record and the longest in history by an U20 athlete in all conditions. At 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris he was bronze medalist.

Early life and background

Mattia Furlani is a son of the former high jumper Marcello Furlani (personal best of 2.27 m) who is also his coach. He is of Senegalese descent through his mother, Khaty Seck (a former sprinter).https://olympics.com/en/news/mattia-furlani-italian-long-jump-teen-sensation--exclusive-spiderman-mourinho His sister Erika (born 1996) is also a high jumper (1.94 m personal best).

Career

In 2022, Furlani won two gold medals at the European U18 Championships in Jerusalem, in the high jump and in the long jump.

On 29 January 2023, still 17, he broke the European U20 indoor long jump record with a leap of 7.99 m for second place at the Folksam Grand Prix in Stockholm, Sweden.{{Cite web |last=Broadbent |first=Chris |date=30 January 2023 |title=Weekend roundup {{!}} Hodgkinson gets 600m world best, Skrzyszowska starts the season with European Lead |url=https://www.european-athletics.com/news/weekend-roundup-keely-hodgkinson-scorches-to-a-world-best-pia-starts-the-season-with-european-lead |access-date=30 January 2023 |website=European Athletics}} In March, he competed in the senior long jump contest at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul, where he did not advance to the final.{{cite web |url=https://www.oasport.it/2023/03/atletica-mattia-furlani-eliminato-agli-europei-indoor-esordio-difficile-bastava-7-75-per-passare/ |title=Atletica, Mattia Furlani eliminato agli Europei Indoor! Esordio difficile, bastava 7.75 per passare |website=oasport.it |date=3 March 2023 |access-date=3 March 2023}} On 24 May, Furlani soared at 8.44 m in the long jump competition at the Meeting di Savona on home soil. It would have been the world U20 record if the wind had not been just above the legal limit at 2.2 m/s, with his mark being the longest in history by an U20 athlete in all conditions.{{Cite web |date=25 May 2023 |title=18-year-old Furlani flies to wind-assisted 8.44m in Savona |url=https://www.european-athletics.com/news/18-year-old-furlani-bounds-out-to-wind-assisted-8-44m-in-savona |access-date=25 May 2023 |website=European Athletics}}

In the 2024 Paris Olympics, Furlani jumped 8.34m in his first jump, which was enough to take home the bronze medal.

He won the silver medal in the long jump at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships with a jump of 8.12 metres, just one centimetre behind gold medal winner Bozhidar Sarâboyukov.{{cite web|url=https://worldathletics.org/news/report/kambundji-european-indoor-60m-hurdles-record-apeldoorn|website=World Athletics|date=7 March 2025|accessdate=7 March 2025|title= Kambundji breaks European indoor 60m hurdles record in Apeldoorn}}{{cite web|url=https://athleticsweekly.com/featured/mixed-1500m-fortunes-for-jakob-ingebrigtsen-and-georgia-hunter-bell-1039997936/ |website=Athletics Weekly|date=7 March 2025|accessdate=7 March 2025|first=Euan|last=Crumpey|title= Mixed 1500m fortunes for Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Georgia Hunter Bell

}} It reversed a result from the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships where the Italian won gold by a single centimetre with 8.23m from Sarâboyukov.{{cite web|url= https://www.european-athletics.com/news/saraboyukov-shocks-furlani-in-dramatic-long-jump-final |website=European Athletics|date=7 March 2025|accessdate=7 March 2025|title= Sarâboyukov shocks Furlani in dramatic long jump final}}

Achievements

=Personal bests=

High jump – 2.17 m (Brescia 2021)
High jump indoor – 2.13 m (Ancona 2022)
Long jump – 8.38 m (Rome 2024) World U20 record
Long jump indoor – 8.34 m (Ancona 2024) World U20 record{{cite web |language=it |url=https://olympics.com/it/notizie/mattia-furlani-nuovo-record-mondiale-under-20-salto-lungo-indoor |title=Il volo inesauribile di Mattia Furlani: record mondiale indoor U20 e miglior salto stagionale per il gioiello dell'atletica italiana |website=olympics.com |date=17 February 2024 |access-date=10 June 2024}}