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Full name | Daniele Leonardo Inzoli | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 12 August 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Long jump | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best | Long jump: 7.93m (2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Daniele Leonardo Inzoli (born 12 August 2008) is an Italian long jumper. He won the Italian Athletics Indoor Championships in 2025, at the age of 16 years-old. [1]
In June 2023, he attained the world best performance ever recorded by a 14-year-old in the long jump, when he jumped 7.48 metres competing in Parma, Italy. [2]
He became the Italian U18 100m champion in 2024. [3] In May 2024, he lengthened his personal best in the long jump to 7.90 metres competing in Savona, Italy, as a 15 year-old. [4] This was an under-16 world best, and improved by five centimetres the previous best set by Cuban Maykel Massò on February 13, 2015 in Havana, Cuba. [5]
He won the bronze medal at the 2024 European Athletics U18 Championships in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, with a jump of 7.54 metres in July 2024. [6] He subsequently competed at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru, in August 2024, shortly after his sixteenth birthday, but did not progress to the final, with a best jump of 6.87 metres. [7] He also competed with the Italian team in the 4 x 100 metres relay race at the championships, but they finished in sixth place in their heat and did not qualify for the final. [8]
In February 2025, he won the long jump title at the Italian Athletics Indoor Championships with a lifetime best of 7.93 metres, at the age of 16 years-old. [9] At the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland, he reached the final with a single jump in qualification of 7.63 metres, before winning the silver medal with a jump of 7.69m. [10] [11]
He is from Lombardy. [12] His brother Francesco is also a long jumper, who won the bronze medal in the long jump at the 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships. [13] [14] They are both members of Atletica Riccardi Milano 1946 athletics club in Milan. [15]