Of Askanews
16-03-2024 – 13:52
Rome, 16 March. (askanews) – The countdown has begun towards the Acea Run Rome The Marathon, Acea Run4Rome and Stracittadina Fun Run, the largest actively participated sporting event in Italy and the one most attended by foreigners. On the stage of the Expo Village, the home of Acea Run Rome The Marathon, this morning the guests of honor paraded on whom the spotlights turned on. News, you will be competing with an early start at 8.25 am in the Wheelchair Antonio “Toni” category Milan, Italian paralympic athlete suffering from a form of degenerative muscular dystrophy which led him to reinvent himself. “In the past I was a professional cyclist, I competed with Marco Pantani and Davide Rebellin, to name a few.
Then the diagnosis of dystrophy and quadriplegia, in theory I should have had a short life, but I didn’t give up and I embarked on a new path where sport is always a fixed point”. MEN’S RACE – The record to beat is 2:06 :48 of the Ethiopian Bekele Tefera Fikre who won it in 2022. There are 18 jostling for a place in the event’s roll of honour. 12 athletes from Kenya and 2 from Ethiopia are competing. For Italy there will be the ‘King of Rome’ Giorgio Calcaterra (Calcaterra Sport Asd) and the Alvita native Carmine Buccini (Etrusca ASD). On paper, the man to beat is the Ethiopian Fentahun Hunegnaw, who in 2019 took fifth place in the marathon of Amsterdam with an excellent 2:06:04 which puts him in line for a new record on the course. His time clearly distances him from his closest challengers, the Kenyan Cosmas Birech who achieved his personal best of 2:08: 03 right on the streets of Rome when he climbed to the top step of the podium in 2018. One step away are the Ethiopians Dechasa Alemu Moreda and Derara Hurisa, who respectively signed a record of 2:08:07 in Hamburg in 2022 and 2:08 :09 in Mumbai in 2020. In the first group of pursuers the Kenyan Brian Kipsang, who boasts 2:09:07 in Barcelona in 2019 the same year and, completing the group of seven men with a personal best under 2:10:00 , his compatriots David Kiprono Metto and Asbel Rutto, for them the time of 2:09:30 in La Rochelle (FRA) in 2021 and 2:09:46 in Mersin (TUR) in 2023.
Of Askanews
16-03-2024 – 13:52
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