Mattia Furlani


Mattia Furlani is an Italian long jumper, the 2025 outdoor and indoor Long jump at [the World Athletics Championships|world champion] and the Athletics at the [2024 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump|bronze medallist] at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Early life and background

Furlani is a son of the former high jumper Marcello Furlani who is also his coach. He is of Senegalese descent through his mother, Khaty Seck. His sister Erika is a high jumper.

Career

In 2022, Furlani won two gold medals at the 2022 [European Athletics U18 Championships|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. 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. 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.
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 – Men's long jump|2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships] with a jump of 8.12 metres, just one centimetre behind gold medal winner Bozhidar Sarâboyukov. 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.
At the 2025 World Indoor Championships, Furlani won the gold medal with a 8.30m jump, just one centimetre more than silver medalist Wayne Pinnock.
A few months later, at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Furlani won the 2025 [World Athletics Championships – Men's long jump|gold medal] again with a 8.39m jump, becoming the youngest long jump world champion ever by doing so.

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Personal bests

National titles

Furlani won a national championship at individual senior level.