Agnese Possamai is a retired middle-distance runner from Italy. Her greatest achievements were the 1985 World Indoor silver medal as well as three European Indoor gold medals.
The 2009 European Cross Country Championships was a continental cross country running competition that was held on 13 December 2009 near Dublin city, Fingal in Ireland. Dublin was selected as the host city in 2007 and the event was the first time that a major European athletics championships took place in Ireland. The six men's and women's races in the championship programme took place in Santry Demense on a looped course with flat and grassy ground. The 16th edition of the European Cross Country Championships featured 323 athletes from 30 nations.
Daniele Meucci is an Italian athlete who specialises in long-distance running, including track running, cross country and road running who won twenty medals at international level.
Stefano La Rosa is an Italian long distance runner. He is a five-time Italian champion.
Yohanes Chiappinelli is an Ethiopian-born Italian male middle-distance runner and steeplechaser.
Ahmed El Mazoury is an Italian born Moroccan male long-distance runner.
Marco De Gasperi is an Italian male mountain runner, sky runner and long-distance runner.
Bernard Dematteis is an Italian male mountain runner and sky runner, two times senior individual European champion at European Mountain Running Championships.
Valentina Belotti is an Italian female mountain runner, world champion at the 2009 World Mountain Running Championships.
Alice Gaggi is an Italian female mountain runner, and world champion at the 2013 World Mountain Running Championships.
Elisa Desco is an Italian female sky runner and mountain runner, world champion at the 2014 Skyrunning World Championships held in Chamonix, and European champion at the 2008 European Mountain Running Championships held in Zell am Harmersbach.
The Italian Mountain Running Championships are the national championships in mountain running, organised every year by the FIDAL from 1976 (men) and 1980 (women).
Xavier Chevrier is an Italian male mountain runner and long-distance runner who won 2017 European Mountain Running Championships.
Nives Curti is a former Italian female long-distance runner and mountain runner who competed at individual senior level at the IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships and at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships.
Renate Rungger is a former Italian female long-distance runner, mountain runner and sky runner who competed at individual senior level at the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.
Cesare Maestri is an Italian male long-distance runner, mountain runner and snowshoe runner who won, at individual senior level, World Snowshoe Championships (2019) and a silver medal at the 2019 World Mountain Running Championships and 2018 European Mountain Running Championships.
Tommaso Vaccina is an Italian male mountain runner, world champion at the World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships (2015).
Gabriele Abate is an Italian male mountain runner, who won a medal at individual senior level at the World Mountain Running Championships.
Ludovica Cavalli is an Italian athlete who specialises in middle-distance running. She competed in the women's 3000 metres event at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
Nekagenet Crippa is an Ethiopian-born Italian middle distance runner and cross-country runner who won a national title in 2019 and at senior level.
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