Anna Incerti

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Anna Incerti
Anna Incerti Barcelona 2010.jpg
Incerti celebrating her gold medal in the 2010 European Championships
Personal information
National team Italy (17 capa)
Born (1980-01-19) 19 January 1980 (age 43)
Palermo, Italy
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight45 kg (99 lb)
Sport
CountryFlag of Italy.svg  Italy
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Long-distance running
Club G.S. Fiamme Azzurre
Coached byTommaso Ticali
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
  • 5000 m: 15:15.5 (2011)
  • 10000 m: 32:12.01 (2012)
  • Half marathon: 1:08:18 (2012)
  • Marathon: 2:25:32 (2011)
Medal record
Individual
Event1st2nd3rd
European Championships 100
Universiade 001
Mediterranean Games 100
Total201
Team
Event1st2nd3rd
European Marathon Cup 300
European Half Marathon Cup 010
European 10,000m Cup 012
Total322
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Barcelona Marathon
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 Amsterdam Half marathon team
Universiade
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2003 Daegu 10,000 m
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2009 Pescara Half marathon
European Marathon Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2006 Gothenburg Team marathon
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Barcelona Team marathon
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Helsinki Team marathon

Anna Carmela Incerti (born 19 January 1980 in Palermo) is an Italian long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon. She has represented Italy in the marathon at European, World and Olympic-level. She won the bronze in the event at the 2010 European Championships, later upgraded to silver and then to gold.

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Biography

She was the 2003 winner of the Florence Marathon, which made her the Italian marathon champion for that year. [1] She also won the bronze medal in 10,000 metres at the 2003 Summer Universiade. Incerti began focusing on longer distances and set a personal best in the marathon at the 2006 European Athletics Championships, running a time of 2:32:53 for ninth place. She finished 17th over the distance at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics.

She represented Italy at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and came fourteenth in the marathon with a personal best run of 2:30:55 hours. [2] Later that year, she won the Milan Marathon in a new personal best time of 2:27:42 hours and finished the season with an Italian record run of 32:1 minutes for the 10K at the San Silvestre Barcelona. [3]

Incerti won the Roma-Ostia Half Marathon in March 2009 and then secured the half marathon title at the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara. [4] At the 2010 European Athletics Championships she won the bronze medal in the marathon race, but was subsequently upgraded to the silver (following the disqualification of race winner Živilė Balčiūnaitė for a doping offence), then to the gold medal (following the disqualification of runner-up Nailiya Yulamanova). [5] [6]

She ran at the 2011 Osaka Ladies Marathon and improved her best time to 2:27:33, coming in fourth place. [7] She also improved her half marathon best soon after, defeating Jessica Augusto to defend at the Roma-Ostia with a time of 1:09:06 – which was also a new course record. [8] After some high altitude training in Ifrane in Morocco she ran at the Stramilano half marathon, but she felt her second-place finish behind Ababel Yeshaneh was not a good performance. [9] She decided to enter the 2011 Berlin Marathon and she ran a significant personal best of 2:25:32 hours. [10] She was runner-up to Valeria Straneo at the Stramilano in 2012 and was fifth in a competitive Roma-Ostia field. [11]

She is married to fellow marathon runner Stefano Scaini. [9]

Achievements

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventTimeNotes
2003 Universiade Flag of South Korea.svg Daegu 3rd10,000 m 33:49.71
2006 European Championships Flag of Sweden.svg Gothenburg 9thMarathon 2:32:53
2007 World Championships Flag of Japan.svg Osaka 17thMarathon 2:36:36
2008 Olympic Games Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Beijing 14thMarathon 2:30:55
2009 Mediterranean Games Flag of Italy.svg Pescara 1stHalf marathon1:12:25
2010 European Championships Flag of Spain.svg Barcelona 1stMarathon 2:32:48
2014 European Championships Civil Ensign of Switzerland.svg Zürich 6thMarathon 2:29:58

National titles

Anna Incerti at 2015 New York City Marathon Anna Incerti (2015 NYC Marathon).jpg
Anna Incerti at 2015 New York City Marathon

She won six national championships.

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References

  1. ↑ Civai, Franco (26 December 2008). Firenze Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 30 November 2009.
  2. ↑ Anna Incerti. Sports Reference. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
  3. ↑ Antonin Hejda (24 January 2011). National Records- 10 kilometers Road. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
  4. ↑ Sampaolo, Diego (4 July 2009). "Cusma double; Sdiri shows solid form again, 8.29m - Mediterranean Games, Day 4". IAAF . Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  5. ↑ (in Italian) ANNA INCERTI MEDAGLIA D’ARGENTO AI CAMPIONATI EUROPEI DI BARCELLONA - Doping, 2 anni di squalifica alla lituana Zivile Balciunaite
  6. ↑ "London 2012 Olympics: Russian athletics trio banned for doping offences". Daily Telegraph. 3 July 2012. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
  7. ↑ Nakamura, Ken (30 January 2011). Akaba out-duels Ito in windy Osaka. IAAF. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
  8. ↑ Viola, Elena (27 February 2011). "Beyu and Incerti win at Roma Ostia". IAAF. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  9. 1 2 Sampaolo, Diego (27 February 2011). "Kisorio wins 40th edition of Stramilano Half Marathon in 60:03". IAAF. Archived from the original on 30 April 2011. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
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