Alessia Succo, in her first year as a student, who turned 16 two days ago and attends her second year of high school in Turin (Piedmont, Italy), took the satisfaction of achieving the best world U18 performance ever in the specialty by beating by 3 hundredths the 8.10 sealed in 2017 by France's Cyréna Samba-Mayela.

Her previous performances had already brought her into the limelight on the national scene, but what she did recently during the Italian Allievi championships staged in Ancona made the name of the 2009 class cross national borders and burst powerfully onto the international stage.

Watching her in action in the final in Ancona, it is easy to be impressed: Alessia Succo is fast on the flat and explosive when it comes to going over the hurdles (although there is still a lot of room for improvement) so much so that in just a few meters she has already created a vacuum behind her, trimming almost three meters of gap (a disproportionate amount in a 60-meter race) to her opponents (all older than her) who at the end could do nothing but congratulate her.