Livorno celebrates Andy Diaz, the 'Cuban from Livorno' puts gold around his neck at the Indoor World Championships

Nanjing (China), March 21, 2025 – Livorno celebrates another extraordinary feat of Andy Diaz at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing: he is world champion of triple jump with lots of record Italian of 17,80. And to say that the 29 year old jumper registered with the Libertas Unicusano Livorno had just finished celebrating the European title he won two weeks ago in Apeldoorn, in the Netherlands.

The “Cuban from Livorno”, trained by Fabrizio Donato, arrived in the blue team as if at the height of a fairy tale that testifies to the strength of will: the escape from Cuba after the Tokyo Olympics, the arrival in Italy, the nights spent on the street, the meeting on Instagram with the coach Donato, the rebirth and the Italian citizenship for sporting merits. Merits that the track testifies: three medals in a row, from the Olympic bronze in Paris to the European and World golds. A title, the latter, that had been missing in Italy for 24 years (Paolo Camossi, Lisbon 2001).

Tuscany, moreover, had celebrated only one other gold in its history at the World Indoor Athletics Championships: that of Fiona May in the long jump in Paris in 1997, one of the seven world indoor golds in the history of the Italian team, which today have become eight.