An Italian record of 6.99 for Dosso, while the meet also saw middle distance runner Tcepiso Masalella disqualified for a controversial gun celebration.
Italian sprinter Zeinab Dosso broke the seven-second barrier for the first time in the women’s 60m by winning the World Indoor Tour Gold final in Torun on Sunday (22 February) and she will be hoping to repeat the form when the World Indoor Championships are held on the same track next month.
Dosso set a meet and national record of 6.99, equaling Julien Alfred’s world lead, and beat world indoor bronze medalist Patricia van der Weken and 200m silver medalist Amy Hunt, who ran PBs of 7.01 and 7.04.
For Hunt, it was just one-hundredth of a second slower than Dina Usher-Smith’s British record, set in 2023.
Home favorite Eva Svoboda took fourth place with 7.09.
“Breaking seven seconds for the first time is certainly special,” Dosso said. “Now I feel ready for the World Indoors. The competition will certainly be tough, everyone here was setting PBs, but I’m confident in my form.”
Perhaps the biggest talking point of the meet, however, was the men’s 1500m.
Tshepiso Masalela edged Azed Habz by one-hundredth of a second in 3:32.55, but as the two men crossed the finish line, Masalela made a gun motion with his hand and aimed it at Habz.
The Botswana athlete was suspended for unsportsmanlike conduct, while World Athletics later removed the post about the athlete from its social media.
France’s Habz won with Sam Chapple in 3:32.68 and Samuel Pihlström in 3:33.47.
Elsewhere, Devin Charlton, two-time world indoor champion and world record holder from the Bahamas, set a world record 7.77 in the women’s 60m hurdles to hold off 100m world champion Ditaji Kambundji, with Switzerland’s Nadine Piyaser just one hundredth of a second behind the home team. Skrishovska is fourth with 7.82.
The women’s long jump was just as close, with Italy’s Larissa Iappichino leaping in 6.72 to win by a centimeter from Annick Kalin.
Belgium’s Eliot Crestan continued his good 2026 form with another victory in 1:44.07 ahead of Polish record holder Maciej Wiederka in 1:44.30.
The meet also featured a pentathlon with victory over Poland’s Paulina Ligarska one point ahead of Great Britain’s Abigail Powlett 4676 to 4675, both PBs.
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