📅 Date: July 15, 2025
🕙 Time: 10:00 – 12:30
📍 Location: Gabre Gabric Stadium, Brescia – Italy
🎟 Access: €20 or free for Speed Festival participants

On the morning of the Banca Valsabbina Grand Prix Brescia 2025, a unique international event will take place:
The Grand Prix Talk – an exclusive roundtable with some of the most respected figures in world athletics.

This is not a classic seminar. It’s an interactive talk with Q&A, where top-level professionals will share insights, methods, and visions on how to train and manage athletes competing at the highest level.

Focus Theme

Managing elite athletes – between method, long-term planning, and human relationships in a global context.

Guest Speakers

JAVIER SOTOMAYOR
World record holder in the high jump (2.45 m, Salamanca 1993), Olympic and World Champion.
He will share his unique journey and perspective as a historic icon of our sport.

DOSE MOSYMANIANE
The coach who discovered and developed Letsile Tebogo, Olympic gold medalist in ...

A New Edition in Bergamo, Italy

The wait is over.

After the success of last year’s edition, Speed Festival returns on October 18–19, 2025, and once again we’ll gather at the CUS Bergamo sports center, just a few minutes from the Milan-Bergamo Airport — in the heart of northern Italy, but with a truly international spirit.

Over the past months, we’ve listened, reflected and reimagined what Speed Festival could become.

And now, we’re ready to launch a new edition — bolder, deeper, and even more focused.

One Theme: Speed Development

This year, we’re diving into a single, powerful theme:

The development of speed in three key areas — sprinting, horizontal jumps and hurdles.

Because speed is not just an ability. It’s a skill. A system. A language. And we want to explore it from every angle: technical, biomechanical, neuromuscular and practical.

But don’t worry — while the theme evolves, the core remains the same.

Science Meets Practice

Speed Festival will continue to bring toget...

A New Milestone for SpeedFestival

We are thrilled to announce that SpeedFestival is now part of the prestigious European Athletics Coaching Summit Series!

This recognition places us among the top coaching and performance development events in Europe, reinforcing our commitment to high-performance training, speed development, and strength conditioning.

The European Athletics Coaching Summit Series is an exclusive network of top-tier educational events dedicated to the advancement of coaching methodologies in athletics. Being part of this elite circle means SpeedFestival is now recognized as a key platform for cutting-edge research, innovation, and practical knowledge in sprinting, strength, and speed-based training.

The Success of SpeedFestival 2024 🚀

The 2024 edition of SpeedFestival was a huge success, attracting elite coaches, sports scientists, and athletes from across Europe and beyond. Attendees experienced:
✅ World-class speakers sharing expertise on speed and power trai...