Ethiopia’s Telahun Haile Bekele and Italy’s Nadia Battocletti won their races in contrasting styles at the Campaccio a World Athletics Cross Country Tour Gold meeting While home star Battocletti ran the entire race alone Bekele had a group of strong contenders for company until he made a decisive move ahead of the final 2km loop as Bekele won the 10km and Battocletti the 5km at the BOclassic road race in Bolzano on 31 December who was contesting his first cross country race in six years He was happy to sit back in the pack during the opening stages of the 10km contest but made his presence felt edging to the front during the first half of the race Olympic steeplechase fourth-place finisher Mohamed Amin Jhinaoui of Tunisia slipped in the mud while in third place just before the halfway point and lost ground on Bekele Kenya’s Matthew Kipkoech Kipruto and Burundi’s Celestin Ndikumana Bekele and Ndikumana continued to push the pace and broke away over the next kilometre before the Ethiopian 25-year-old surged again around the 7km mark He was four seconds ahead of Ndikumana heading into the final 2km loop with the pair being chased by Uganda’s 2022 world 5000m bronze medallist Oscar Chelimo who was a further 14 seconds back Bekele waved to the crowds on his way to the finish line while Chelimo followed his runner-up finish last year with a third place this time Olympic 10,000m silver medallist Battocletti became the first Italian winner at Campaccio in 31 years.  Nadia Battocletti wins the Campaccio women's 6km (© Sportmedia.es/Campaccio) the 24-year-old went straight to the front of the field and had created a seven-second gap by the end of the first of the three 2km laps Finland’s mountain running specialist Susanna Saapunki and Battocletti’s compatriot Elisa Palmero were locked in battle behind her with Burundi’s Micheline Niyomahoro a further couple of seconds back Battocletti picked up the pace over the next loop and was 28 seconds ahead of Palmero and Saapunki by the 4km mark and her advantage only grew during the final loop The multiple European champion went on to cross the finish line in 21:14 with Palmero winning the race for the runner-up spot as she clocked 21:58 to finish eight seconds ahead of Saapunki in third “Today I felt like I was back to the races I did as a girl with the rainy and cold weather,” Battocletti told organisers with the changes to the route of this edition was even more technical and a higher level of difficulty that made it even more fun It is an honour to have won this wonderful race Women1 Nadia Battocletti (ITA) 21:142 Elisa Palmero (ITA) 21:583 Susanna Saapunki (FIN) 22:064 Micheline Niyomahoro (BDI) 22:185 Michela Cesaro (ITA) 22:206 Linda Palumbo (ITA) 22:357 Adele Roatta (ITA) 22:398 Francesca Annoni (ITA) 22:459 Licia Ferrari (ITA) 22:5710 Lucia Arnoldo (ITA) 23:14 Men1 Telahun Haile Bekele (ETH) 31:322 Celestin Ndikumana (BDI) 31:503 Oscar Chelimo (UGA) 32:094 Mohamed Amin Jhinaoui (TUN) 32:115 Maxime Chaumeton (RSA) 32:216 Emile Hafashimana (BDI) 32:257 Iliass Aouani (ITA) 32:278 Luca Alfieri (ITA) 32:409 Pasquale Selvarolo (ITA) 32:4910 Egide Ntakarutimana (BDI) 33:07 This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page if you know where you’re headed you can drive just a few kilometers away from the central hustle and bustle to find yourself in places where time has not passed at such a rapid clip is the Bottini body shop in San Giorgio su Legnano near Milan the family’s history with the workshop began with Arturo Bottini "My grandfather started working at Zagato before the Second World War His skill earned him the nickname Mangialamiera he was so good that he could reproduce a fender of any car in no time at all and without relying on a model for reference Arturo also made beautiful aluminum models that he built from scratch birthed by his own imagination that was inspired by the sports cars of the period Thanks to his experience at Zagato and his personal drive in 1946 Arturo founded his own company in San Giorgio su Legnano a small village in Milan’s metropolitan area Arturo immediately got to work on making transformations of the Fiat 508 Balilla sedan and Fiat 1100 A into small and lightweight pickup trucks which were not produced by major manufacturers but were in great demand after the war the bodywork was cut and a carpenter built the wooden sections but this was more out of practicality than passion and so he also started to build a prototype sports racer starting from the chassis of a humble Fiat 500 Topolino,” Himara adds the scale and scope of work increased and the clientele became increasingly differentiated As the country rebuilt its economy and industry following the war higher-end cars like the Alfa Romeo 1900s that belonged to the wealthier Legnano residents entered the equation and mingled with the Topolinos of the working class Carrozzeria Bottini moved to a larger spot to its still current headquarters at 1 via Vittorio Veneto was already the official the owner of a Fiat 514 sedan at the ripe age of twelve—his first car and the start of a lifelong obsession with them He also began helping his dad at the body shop from a young age "In those early days of the postwar period My grandfather made my father prepare the estimates moving around the cars and taking in pieces of information he started following along with the automotive side of the shop watching what his father and his workers were doing very closely he prepared the paint mixes and helped the painters when he could “I believe that the number of young artisanal enthusiasts is proportional to the handicraft activities present in Italy,” Himara continues on the subject of the youth in the trades today or simply managing the entire accounting part of the company which today is increasingly complex and demanding There are just fewer opportunities available for those who might want to try it but have no connections However we ‘young people,’ always try to learn something new even if the subject matter is something old I would be lying if I said that am beating the sheet metal or painting the bodies even just by handing him the tools or holding the bumper while he fixes it to the bodywork but mainly I help by managing all the accounting pieces with my father as well as taking care of all the communication and marketing elements A point certainly in our favor is that the same passion and attention to detail that we employ in restorations being part of our DNA and the training of our employees and collaborators there is also the family’s longtime friend and business partner who participated with Pierluigi in races such as the Mille Miglia and Winter Marathon when he was a young man up to competing in the 1990s in the Porsche Italia amateur championships driven by his interest in historic cars and his passion for racing he chose to join Carrozzeria Bottini to support Himara in managing the business and to definitively replace Pierluigi as a restorer when he decides to retire and Ali are also in the workshop every day From the 1970s to the ’90s the body shop worked on Ferrari Pierluigi has been most passionate about working on Porsches getting so good with their cars that the Porsche dealerships in Milan employed his services for the repairs and bodywork of their customers’ cars cars have been restored to their original splendor from such a state of decay that even the junkyards would have refused them I am referring in particular to early Porsche 911s before they were valued the same way they are today I do think Italians are very creative and passionate we know how to bring out the original poetry of a car but we are creative in the way we do our work and even the most remote corners of our country there are many small-time artisans who have been practicing their skills for a lifetime they are family activities that are transmitted from father to son those who restore the wooden steering wheels and so for all the various craft skills required during restoration Together we are reproducing the past in a sense a new life that’s in keeping with the car’s original one.” Among the many awards that Carrozzeria Bottini has collected in its many years of activity the recognition at the 1992 Genoa Fair is among the most fondly remembered by the team where their efforts won the first prize for best restoration By virtue of the high-quality level achieved over the years Bottini has been entrusted with cars of a certain historical importance such as the 1955 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider Prototype and the 1963 Lancia Flaminia Speciale Pininfarina both by the well-known collector Corrado Lopresto some of you might have recognized a Porsche 597 at the beginning of its restoration process “This Porsche 597 fits exactly into those very demanding challenges in terms of time and money which however derive from a conscious choice of the owner and are absolutely shared by us This project will take a long time given the particularity and rarity of the car The 597 was an off-road vehicle project born from a prototype presented by Porsche to respond to a tender held by the German army in the 1950s the 597 was equipped in the rear with a modified four-cylinder engine from a Porsche 356 with 50hp a four-speed synchromesh gearbox and a top speed of 100km/h It could withstand almost all types of terrain it was extremely agile for a military vehicle and thanks to the compact monocoque it could even float The lack of doors made it uncomfortable for many passengers but helped greatly with its amphibious performance In its day the Porsche 597 aroused a lot of interest and in the following months it was also presented to the British and French military bases in Germany as well as the Geneva Motor Show in March of 1955 Porsche worked to start series production soon after with the version produced from the end of 1957 including a more inclined front-end and the addition of four steel doors then for financial reasons and labor market policy The government contract was awarded to Auto Union in Ingolstadt instead and so Porsche stopped work on developing the 957 and only about fifty of these vehicles still exist making it a particularly rare Porsche in more ways than one It will be a while before the 957 is correctly restored and the workshop has plenty of other cars to work on This year the Bottinis and their partners will celebrate 75 years of operation and Himara is looking forward to the future "It is not easy to predict what will happen in the next 25 years and with hybrid and electric cars taking more of a slice of the driving population each year we do not know exactly how it will end up influencing the classic car sector I can say that some objectives are very clear The first and for me most important and valuable is to reach 100 years of business we would like to combine our restoration activity with the repair and restoration of more recent models as well as ‘Instant Classics,’ and of course the eventual classics of the future still to come ‘I think that to move forward we always need new ideas and new challenges; we cannot remain anchored to the past even if we might want to be The past was very important and necessary to get to today but we will become part of it if we don’t keep up with the changes and demands of the sector and that gives us a great amount of energy comments need to be approved before they are published Reigning world half marathon champion Jacob Kiplimo from Uganda and Tsehay Gemechu from Ethiopia claimed the victories at the 64th edition of the Campaccio in San Giorgio su Legnano the first leg of the pandemic-shortened World Athletics Cross Country Permit series Italian marathon record holder Eyob Faniel Gebrehiwet and this year’s Italian cross country champion set the early pace in the men’s 10 km The lead group started at a conservative pace covering the opening kilometre in 3:08 The race really hotted up when an eight-men leading group went through the third kilometre mark in 9:13 Faniel then reached the midway point in 15:38 with a one-second lead over Tuemay breaking away from Auoani and Faniel at kilometre seven opening up a three-second lead over Melak during the fourth lap Melak tried to close to gap in the waning stages by the 20-year-old Ugandan responded and held on It marked his first victory at the Campaccio and his second cross country victory in Italy after his triumph at the Cinque Mulini in 2018.  Melak finished second in 29:10 with Chelimo Faniel finished fourth in 29:53 beating Tuemay “Unfortunately I fell during the last lap but it was a good race,” Kiplimo said “I enjoyed running on this course.” Kiplimo said he’ll open the track season in Ostrava in May but hasn’t yet decided which distance he’ll run at the Olympic Games Gemechu and Kenyan Lilian Rengeruk dominated the 6km race They reached two kilometres in 6:17 with a 12-second gap over Burundi’s Francine Nyomokunzi The battle for the win came down to the final sprint when Gemechu launched her kick 150 metres from the finish line to take the victory in 19:03 Tsige Haileslase from Ethiopia was third in 19:56 ahead of Nyomokunzi (20:08) and Addisalem Belay Tegegn from Ethiopia (20:13) Francesca Tommasi was the top Italian runner Gemechu finished fourth in the 5000m at the 2019 World Championships She was sixth at the World Cross Country Championships earlier that year “We broke away at the start of the race and continued running at a fast pace,” said Gemechu who’s targeting a 5000/10,000m double at the Tokyo Olympic Games “I am very happy with the win and I really hope to score another win next week at the Cinque Mulini.” Rengeruk was aiming to win the Campaccio for the second time three years after her triumph but she had to settle with the runner-up position “I felt very well from the beginning of the race but I enjoy running this race.” Rengeruk said she’s hoping to contest the 5000m in Tokyo Gebrhiwet gets better of Barega at Campaccio .. Tuemay and Tesfay take Ethiopian double at Ca.. San Giorgio su Legnano– It was an all Ethiopian affair at Campaccio men’s Cross Country race when Olympic 5000m bronze medallist Hagos Gebrhiwet got the better out his young and upcoming compatriot Selemon Barega as they took the top two positions here today three-time European cross-country champion Yasemin Can from Turkey dominated the women’s 6km race in 19:21 beating Ethiopia’s Silenat Yismaw by 16 seconds Barega’s shoelace came undone at the start of the race costing him about 40 metres on his main opponents The pace was slow on the first lap and Barega managed to catch up with a big group formed by Gebrhiwet Britain’s Ross Millington and Italy’s Yohanes Chiappinelli Gebrhiwet broke away from Barega and Albert Chemutai of Uganda on the final lap with one kilometre to go By the time Gebrhiwet reached the finish line who became the fourth fastest 5000m runner in history when he clocked 12:43.02 in Brussels last year finished second in 29:22 edging Chemutai by one second the best result of his career in San Giorgio su Legnano world silver in 2015 and Olympic bronze in 2016 Gebrhiwet is bidding to win his fourth global medal at the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 “I was aware that Barega had a problem at the start,” said Gebrhiwet “I decided to increase the pace on the final lap because I knew he would be very strong in a sprint I will not run in other cross country races but I will focus on some indoor competitions.” It had never happened in my career,” said Barega I will now run in Elgoibar before a period of training in Ethiopia to prepare for the Ethiopian Cross Country Trials for the World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus.” Read more at: IAAF.org Kenya’s Daniel Simiu Ebenyo starts as the pre-event men’s race favourite at the 67th edition of the Campaccio-International Cross Country the Italian leg of the World Athletics Cross Country Tour Gold series Ebenyo secured sixth place at the World Cross Country Championships in Bathurst last February and went on to win silver medals in the 10,000m at the World Championships in Budapest and in the half marathon at the World Road Running Championships in Riga The 28-year-old last raced on 17 December in Kolkata where he won the 25km event in a world best of 1:11:13 and he will be looking to carry that form through to 2024 Among those wanting to challenge him will be Uganda’s Oscar Chelimo who will make his third appearance at the Campaccio after finishing third in 2021 and fourth in 2022 won world 5000m bronze in Oregon in 2022 and finished third in the Cross Internacional de San Sebastian Celestin Ndikumana and Egide Ntakarutimana from Burundi will be looking to follow in the footsteps of their compatriot Rodrigue Kwizera who won last year’s race in San Giorgio su Legnano Ndikumana claimed victory in the World Cross Country Tour Gold race in Amorebieta while Ntakarutimana finished fifth in last year’s edition of the Campaccio The Italian challenge is led by marathon runners Nekagenet Crippa finished sixth in the Rome Marathon with 2:12:11 on his debut over this distance and improved his PB to 2:07:35 in Valencia in December achieving a qualifying standard for the Olympic Games in Paris Aouani ran 2:08:34 on his marathon debut in Milan in 2022 and improved Eyob Faniel’s Italian record to 2:07:16 in Barcelona in 2023 before finishing seventh at the New York Marathon in 2:10:54 He finished sixth in 2021 and eighth in 2022 in his previous two appearances at the Campaccio the 2018 European 3000m steeplechase bronze medallist ran 2:09:46 on his marathon debut in Seville and finished 11th at the World Championships in Budapest in August The line-up of Italian runners is completed by Ala Zoghlami a four-time Italian champion in the 3000m steeplechase The women’s race features Italian distance running star Nadia Battocletti who won silver at the European Cross Country Championships in Brussels in December on her debut in the senior category following her gold medals in the U20 category in 2018 and 2019 and in the U23 category in 2021 and 2022 she finished fifth in the 5km at the World Road Running Championships in Riga with a national record of 14:45.  Last weekend Battocletti won the 5km Boclassic in Bolzano beating Nelly Chepchirchir and Margaret Chelimo Kipkemboi to become the first Italian athlete to win the event since Maria Curatolo in 1988.  Her challengers this time include Francine Niyomukunzi from Burundi who finished ninth in the 5km at the World Road Running Championships and improved her PB to 8:44.18 in the 3000m in Xiamen last September Niyomukunzi’s compatriot Micheline Niyomahoro will make her debut at Campaccio the European U23 silver medallist in the 10,000m in 2021 and Italian half marathon champion in 2023; Federica Del Buono European indoor bronze medallist in the 1500m in Prague in 2015; Valentina Gemetto who finished third at the World Athletics Cross Country Tour Gold event in Soria; Giovanna Selva European U23 team gold medallist in 2021 and fourth at the Boclassic; and Sara Nestola European U23 silver medallist in the 10,000m 2025 (FMC) – Ethiopia’s Telahun Haile Bekele won his race in a dominant display at the Campaccio Tlahun had a group of strong contenders for company until he made a decisive move ahead of the final 2km loop The Ethiopian athlete achieved back-to-back victory as he won the 10km at the BOclassic road race in Bolzano on 31 December Olympic steeplechase fourth-place finisher Mohamed Amin Jhinaoui of Tunisia slipped in the mud while in third place just before the halfway point and lost ground on Tlahun Kenya’s Matthew Kipkoech Kipruto and Burundi’s Celestin Ndikumana with the pair being chased by Uganda’s 2022 world 5000m bronze medallist Oscar Chelimo who was a further 14 seconds back Tlahun waved to the crowds on his way to the finish line Leave A Reply and website in this browser for the next time I comment commenced service in 1994 with outdated equipment and limited manpower but with the first of its kind and new style in the country’s broadcast media industry He is the first Italian to have won an individual title at the European Championships to become champion in all categories: under 20 The king of the cross country is Andrea Lalli protagonist of an original and unmatched hat-trick More than any other he found his maximum expression on the grass with an effective and unmistakable style: agile feet and powerful legs the opponents could only compete for second place so overwhelming was the superiority of the red hair athlete from Molise Three times gold medallist after having escaped from afar as in the triumph as a junior in 2006 in San Giorgio su Legnano with a persistent progression two years later in Brussels or even from very far away on the day of the consecration on the snow of Budapest in 2012 in a fairy-tale atmosphere The golden wedding anniversary of the legendary Campaccio to be celebrated with a double gold for the under 20 Italian team: the spell of the missing individual title is broken but the team is also on the top step of the podium What a celebration in San Giorgio su Legnano in a cross country temple and on a sunny morning The plan was to wait until halfway through the race then try to take the initiative on the mud due to the rain that had fallen in the previous days simply because he was too good: immediately in command he launched the attack after just over a kilometer set a frantic pace and increased the gap in the second of the three laps exalting himself and closed with ten seconds on who was chasing the Belarusian Chebiarak and the Romanian Suhanea The redemption one year after the failure of Tilburg where he arrived twelfth held back by a muscle problem with a victorious test at the Soria Spanish cross country in the preparation way 2008 - The second win was even easier than expected So said Lalli after crossing the finishing line in Brussels where he crushes the resistance of his rivals among the under 23s in practice without even attacking: he didn't change pace Yet there is no shortage of pretenders in the fraying group: the British Vernon bronze the year before in the Toro cross country with the italian athlete in fourth place The last to give up in the uphill section of the second to last lap was the Turkish Bayrak there is no need to wait for the sprint which is his weakness but the real race ended at the sound of the bell He had plenty of time to cheer with his finger raised before entering the straight at Park van Laken after three months of preparation all dedicated to cross country with Vernon eight seconds behind and an exhausted Bayrak who kept the bronze finishing walking And it was silver medal for the Italian team driven by its leader who then seeks glory on the track too second in the 10,000m at the U23 European Championships the following season But cross country is his favorite specialty that will give him the greatest joy but enthusiasm is ignited for the formidable excessive power of an Italian athlete indeed the Italian athlete par excellence in cross country He spined his legs like no other on an all-snowed trail and outdistanced the others after a couple of kilometres The French Hassan Chahdi tried to keep up with him and he took the lead but the Fiamme Gialle athlete who was competing after a stage in Kenya and without any approach races followed in his footsteps with his composed movement At the fourth kilometer he left the other athletes behind with an impressive ease of running twenty seconds at the start of the last lap And once again he raised his arms prematurely and lingered to better enjoy those happy moments An authority never seen at European cross-country Championships Daniele Meucci fell in the middle of the race returned to the group and took a wonderful bronze medal Then new opportunities opened up for Lalli even if the aimed results did not arrive from the marathon (a personal best of 2h12:48 in Turin in 2014) due to injuries Questo sito o gli strumenti terzi da questo utilizzati si avvalgono di cookie necessari al funzionamento ed utili alle finalità illustrate nella cookie policy Se vuoi saperne di più o negare il consenso a tutti o ad alcuni cookie scorrendo questa pagina o cliccando qualunque suo elemento acconsenti all’uso dei cookie Judge and law professor Marta Cartabia was unanimously elected on Wednesday to head Italy's constitutional court the first time in the country's history a woman has presided over the powerful body.  had been considered in 2015 as a potential candidate for Italy's presidency she was approached to become prime minister after the disintegration of the previous government.  The constitutional court was created after World War II Besides ruling on the constitutionality of laws and voting systems and approving referendums it also decides major social or ethical issues Cartabia was elected unanimously by the 15 judges sitting at the court where she has served since 2011 as one of three women on the bench.  Born in San Giorgio su Legnano near Milan in 1963 Cartabia is one of the youngest ever presidents elected to the court.  she teaches constitutional law at the University of Milano-Bicocca after having taught and published research papers in numerous Italian and foreign universities please register for free or log in to your account Sign in/UpRegister nowWhy RegisterWORLD ATHLETICS CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPSBYDGOSZCZ (MYSLECINEK PARK) Edwin Soi en route to his Campaccio win (© Lorenzo Sampaolo) Italy becomes the first country to host the European cross-country championships for the fourth time with the 28th edition of "Piemonte 2022" which will have the Parco della Mandria in Venaria Reale as stage just six years after the event organized in 2016 in Chia the championship had also made a stop in San Giorgio su Legnano in 2006 and previously in Ferrara in 1998 All events that have indelibly marked the history of the event with the launch of emerging talents on the international scene FERRARA 1998 - When Eurocross arrived in Ferrara in 1998 it experienced a day full of significant moments It is the beginning of Serhiy Lebid’s era the first of his nine individual victories The Ukrainian athlete is exalted on the last lap where he reaches and overtakes the leading trio: the Belgian Mohammed Mourhit who had been the best european athlete in the last two World Championships ahead of the French Driss El Himer and the Dane Carsten Jorgensen It is also the first gold medal for Paula Radcliffe the British who makes purists turn up their noses due to her stagger pace destined to move the boundaries of the women's marathon Jubilation for the Azzurri who graduate as European team champions with a compact and well-matched line up: Giuliano Battocletti to guide them with the cross-country man Gabriele De Nard in twelfth place Umberto Pusterla fifteenth and captain Gennaro Di Napoli nineteenth in a team completed by Luciano Di Pardo and Francesco Bennici SAN GIORGIO SU LEGNANO 2006 – It moves to the Campaccio field which in 2006 celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with the European Championships in San Giorgio su Legnano And it makes it in style on the Sunday that sees the 'Brit' Mo Farah acquire fame thanks to the first pearl of a unique career who collapsed in the final and finished twelfth but with his compatriot Tetyana Holovchenko It is the edition in which the under 23 races are introduced which contribute to enrich the italian medal display case But the under 20s succeed the most with the sensational triumph of Andrea Lalli (first individual title for Italy) and also in teams For the hosts there is a valuable second place in the medal display (two golds two bronzes including Daniele Meucci's U23) behind Great Britain only CHIA 2016 - The rest is recent history at Chia 2016 Turkey scores a double in the individual senior races: Aras Kaya among the men the two European track champion Yasemin Can among the women who get on the podium also as team This time the new name comes from the under 20s with the success of a certain Jakob Ingebrigtsen who at 16 takes his first international title: a prelude to poker in this category but to the triumphs on the track at senior level for the Norwegian phenomenon while in women there is the encore of the German Konstanze Klosterhalfen another prodigy athlete of European middle distance The Azzurri rejoice: the national anthem plays for the under 23 men's team that wins the gold medal and in the under 20 race Yohanes Chiappinelli takes silver under a sun that feels more spring than winter in the most southern point of Sardinia USA’s Dathan Ritzenhein and Kenya’s Janet Kisa took the honours on Tuesday (6) in San Giorgio su Legnano at the 58th edition of the Campaccio cross-country race the first of two Italian IAAF Cross Country Permit meetings Ritzenhein held off 2012 European cross-country champion Andrea Lalli to win in 29:08 with Lalli’s Italian compatriot Daniele Meucci The African 5000m bronze medallist won from fellow Kenyan Peris Jepchirchir in 19:00 as Betsy Saina completed the Kenyan sweep in third European steeplechase silver medallist Krysztian Zalewski and they went through the first kilometre in a conservative 3:09 but just four remained as the leaders approached 5km in 14:49 Ahmed was dropped as the three remaining leaders passed 6km in 17:45 former US 5000m record-holder Ritzenhein pushed the pace but Lalli and Meucci were still with him at 7km with just 3km to go multiple European cross-country gold medallist Lalli edged ahead with Ritzenhein close behind with one lap remaining as Meucci was finally dropped the race came down to a spectacular neck-and-neck race between Ritzenhein and Lalli former world half-marathon bronze medallist Ritzenhein managed to open up a gap of one second on his Italian rival Despite the strong support for Lalli from the local crowd Ritzenhein held on the clinch the win in 29:08 “I’m very happy as I have not run a cross-country race for a long time,” said Ritzenhein after recording his first victory on any surface since June 2012 “I am not in very good shape at the moment then Lalli put it down in the middle.” to win in the 58-year history of the Campaccio meeting But despite his success in San Giorgio su Legnano the US runner is concentrating on the roads in 2015 “I’m training for a marathon later this year but first I’m running the 4km in Edinburgh on Saturday,” said Ritzenhein “My goal is to qualify for the US Olympic marathon team at the US Trials in 13 months.” who won the first of his three European cross-country titles on this course in 2006 was delighted with his second-place finish in 29:09 The last time an Italian man made it on to the podium at the Campaccio meeting was 1994 when Umberto Pusterla finished second to Haile Gebrslassie even though I had some problems with my shoes,” he said “I started my career with cross country but I have been training for the marathon for two years so I didn’t expect to run so well I’m now planning to train for 20 days In Kenya to prepare for the Paris Marathon and in the build-up I will run the Rome-Ostia Half-Marathon I’m changing my training methods under the guidance of my new coaches Renato Canova and Vittorio Di Saverio.” who will run his next marathon on 1 March at Lake Biwa “I would have been happier with a win but I am now training for the marathon,” said Meucci who intends on running the 26.2-mile distance at this year’s World Championships “Two years ago I trained for cross country and I was in my best shape.” Betsy Saina and Ethiopian junior Etegan Woldu dominated the women’s race taking the lead from the outset with a comfortable margin over the chasing trio formed by rising Italian 1500m talent Federica Del Buono Belgium’s Almensh Belete and USA’s Neely Spence The African quartet had a 10-second lead at halfway when they produced their decisive surge the Kenyans pulled away from Woldu on the last lap The race came down to the final 200 metres when Kisa launched her kick holding off Jepchirchir by one second in 19:00 just one second off Hiwot Ayalew’s course record set last year It was the first time that Kenya had achieved a 1-2-3 finish in the women's race at Campaccio but it was too windy,” said Commonwealth 5000m silver medallist Kisa who hopes to challenge for the medals at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Guiyang on 28 March Saina crossed the finish-line in third place in 19:04 fourth at the European Cross Country Championships in Samokov one place and 16 seconds ahead of Del Buono no fewer than 1500 runners from all ages and categories took part on a sunny with a temperature of 8°C Men (10km)1 Dathan Ritzenhein (USA) 29:082 Andrea Lalli (ITA) 29:093 Daniele Meucci (ITA) 29:234 Ahmed El Mazoury (ITA) 29:445 Patrick Nasti (ITA) 29:446 Krystian Zalewski (POL) 29:587 Mo Ahmed (CAN) 30:128 Francois Marzetta (ITA) 31:149 Tomasz Szymowiak (POL) 31:5710 Rolando Piana (ITA) 32:12 Women (6km)1 Janet Kisa (KEN) 19:002 Peres Jepchirchir (KEN) 19:013 Betsy Saina (KEN) 19:044 Etagegn Woldu (ETH) 19:455 Neely Spence (USA) 19:566 Almenesh Belete (BEL) 20:117 Federica Del Buono (ITA) 20:278 Sara Dossena (ITA) 20:369 Valeria Roffino (ITA) 20:4410 Sara Brogiato (ITA) 20:52 Edris ends Merga’s streak in Bolzano as Kisa .. Belgium’s Isaac Kimeli will look to go one better than his runner-up finish last year while Kenya’s Edinah Jebitok will target another World Athletics Cross Country Tour Gold meeting triumph at the CrossCup in Hannut on Sunday (21) Kimeli finished second behind Yann Schrub of France when they raced in the snow-covered Belgian city in 2023 Kimeli’s compatriot Guillaume Grimard was third on that occasion and the pair clash again over 9km in Hannut but this time they will go up against a field including Uganda’s Rogers Kibet Rwanda’s Yves Nimubona and Burundi’s Egide Ntakarutimana Nimubona and Ntakarutimana opened their 2024 cross country campaigns at the Campaccio in San Giorgio su Legnano Nimubona then raced over 10km on the roads in Valencia a week later finishing six spots ahead of Nimubona in eighth place The 20-year-old finished 15th at the World Cross Country Championships in Bathurst last February Grimard is back in action after finishing sixth in San Giorgio su Legnano behind Nimubona and Ntakarutimana while Kimeli will also be seeking a strong performance on home soil when he makes his season debut After finishing second in Hannut last year he went on to finish 13th in the 10,000m at the World Championships in Budapest and then 11th at the European Cross Country Championships in Brussels towards the end of the year Jebitok has the chance to add another Cross Country Tour Gold meeting win to her CV this season after her victories in Seville in November and Venta de Banos in December then raced at the Cross Internacional Juan Muguerza in Elgoibar on 7 January and finished second there just two seconds behind her Kenyan compatriot Beatrice Chebet Pamela Kosgei was also a medallist in Bathurst having claimed bronze in the U20 women’s race and the 19-year-old is entered alongside her compatriot Jebitok for the race in Hannut They will be joined on the start line by Britain’s Megan Keith who finished third in Hannut last year and went on to win European U23 titles in the 5000m in July and cross country in December 21-year-old Keith raced on the roads in Valencia and ran a PB of 31:22 The field in Hannut also features Italy’s Giovanna Selva and Hungary’s Lili Anna Vindics-Toth who placed third and fourth respectively at the Campaccio plus Kenya’s Faith Chepkoech and Belgium’s Jana Van Lent Entry lists World 1500m silver medallist Timothy Cheruiyot and double European cross-country champion Fionnuala McCormack are among the world-class field set to take part in the 41st Antrim International Cross Country Food and Rural Enterprise campus hosts the event on the same day as the IAAF Cross Country Permit meeting in San Giorgio su Legnano which will be the final race of the day at 2:20pm local time will provide a tough challenge for Cheruiyot whose last race came when the Kenyan won the IAAF Diamond League 1500m title in Zurich at the end of August The Kenyan 1500m champion will be aiming to improve on his Antrim performance from 2016 when he finished a close third to Aweke Ayalew and Thomas Ayeko World steeplechase silver medallist and Olympic fourth-place finisher Soufiane El Bakkali proved himself to be a formidable competitor throughout 2017 and the Moroccan is expected to challenge Cheruiyot in Antrim Britain’s 2014 European 10,000m silver medallist Andy Vernon will be competing in Antrim for the fifth time having finished second in 2010 and third last year Jeroen D'Hoet returned to action on 31 December with a third-place finish in Soest who won the European junior cross-country title in 2009 will be competing in Antrim for the first time Belgium’s 2013 European under-23 1500m champion Pieter Jan Hannes who had top-10 finishes at the World and European Mountain Running Championships in 2017 and Ireland's Hugh Armstrong are also set to compete McCormack leads a strong field for the women’s 5.4km race The 33-year-old has made six previous appearances in Antrim and has never finished outside of the top four both wins coming just weeks after her victories at the 2011 and 2012 European Cross Country Championships respectively Bahrain's world U20 5000m bronze medallist Bontu Edao Rebitu achieved podium finished in her first three cross-country races of 2017 and the 20-year-old will be hoping for a similarly successful start to her 2018 season Laura Graham will be aiming for a strong performance on home soil after a memorable 2017 The Northern Irish athlete won both the Dublin and Belfast Marathons becoming the first domestic winner of the latter since 1999 Since 2015 the race has been dominated by African athletes with the past three editions being won by Kenya’s Caroline Kipkirui Alice Aprot and Ethiopia’s Birtukan Fente 2014 European cross-country champion Gemma Steel has withdrawn from the event is instead focusing on her preparations for the Doha Marathon on 12 January As well as being part of the IAAF Cross Country Permit circuit the Antrim International Cross Counry is part of the UK Athletics Cross Challenge Series and this year will also incorporate the Celtic Cross Country International with teams from Scotland Ireland and Northern Ireland and Ulster all competing There will also be a full programme of supporting races from primary schools age upwards for both boys and girls Kipruto and Kipkirui score Kenyan double in A.. 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Italian distance running stars Andrea Lalli and Daniele Meucci will be in the spotlight on home soil at the famous Campaccio Cross Country race The last domestic winner in the northern Italian town of San Giorgio su Legnano was the former 3000m Steeplechase world champion Francesco Panetta It will be an admittedly tough task for Lalli and Meucci to end that barren streak and come out on top in the 10km race but both men have shown the form in the last month which suggests it’s certainly not impossible the Italian pair faces a very strong African contingent led by the Kenyan quartet of Paul Kipsiele Koech Thomas Longosiwa and Geoffrey Kirui; along with Uganda’s Moses Kipsiro and Ethiopia’s Muktar Edris Lalli grabbed the headlines on 9 December when he dominated the SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Hungary winning the gold medal with his aggressive gun-to-tape tactics to become the first runner to win the continental cross country title in all three different age categories San Giorgio su Legnano is where this hat trick began when he won the European junior title in 2006 the  Italian team completed a successful day at the European Cross Country Championships with the 2012 European Athletics Championships 10000m silver medallist  Meucci getting a bronze medal which helped  Italy finish third in the team contest 2012 came to a very satisfactory end for Meucci as he won the We Run Rome 10km road race in the Italian capital The turning point in Lalli’s career was his choice to spend long training periods in Kenya to train with Kenyan runners in Iten and he has followed the same recipe for success in the last 12 months I spent a period in October at Gianni Demadonna’s training camp in Iten to prepare the European Championships “I have been training regularly there for two years I have everything I need: strong Kenyan training partners and ideal training conditions at 2400 metres of altitude I have very good friends in Kenya,” commented Lalli recently Lalli will face some familiar faces from his stints in Kenya on Sunday The 2004 Olympic Games 3000m Steeplechase bronze medallist enjoyed a successful 2012 season when he clocked the third fastest time ever over the barriers with 7:54.31 at the Rome Samsung Diamond League meeting He won the Diamond Race in his discipline thanks to other wins in Doha (with 7:56.58) Kenya will be also represented by Leonard Komon the world record holder over 10km and 15 km on the road He knows the Campaccio course very well as he finished second in 2011 Komon won the New Year’s Eve road race in Peuerbach the 2012 Olympic Games 5000m bronze medallist also improved his personal best over the distance to 12:49.04 in the 5000m in the fast Paris Diamond League race this summer Longosiwa was ill last weekend and dropped out of the famous Boclassic race 10km road race in Bolzano on New Year’s Eve after one lap and so Sunday’s outing will be a test to see how well he has recovered Edris was the 2012 World Junior Championships 5000m gold medallist and 2012 African cross country junior champion and was only narrowly beaten by the reigning World Cross Country champion Imane Merga in Bolzano earlier this week a two-time IAAF World Cross Country Championships  medallist who clocked a very impressive 26:55.73 over 10000m at the Brussels Diamond League meeting in September will be accompanied by the US runner Scott Bauhs the 2009 and 2011 World Championships 3000m Steeplechase bronze medallist leads a women's field which also includes Kenya’s Priscah Cherono the 2007 World Championships 5000m bronze medallist who was second in Bolzano on Monday evening Local interest in the 6km women's race is provided by Elena Romagnolo who showed her recent good form when she finished fourth in the Boclassic in Bolzano Lalli and Britton victorious at European Cros.. 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