Daniele Meucci
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Daniele Meucci (born 7 October 1985) is an Italian athlete who specialises in
He represented Italy at the
Biography
Early career
Born in
He represented Italy on the world stage for the first time in 2008, but he only managed 99th place in the senior race at the 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. He had greater success at European level that year, again taking sixth in the European Cup race and finishing twelfth in the senior race at the 2008 European Cross Country Championships.
Meucci took up
Prime and later years
The Italian slightly improved his half marathon best with a 1:02:41 run for fifth at the 2010
The following year he managed only eleventh in the 3000 m at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships[6] He was beaten to the 2011 national title in the 5000 m by Stefano La Rosa, but set a personal best in the 10,000 m as a guest at the UK Championships, completing the distance in a time of 27:44.50 minutes.[7] He represented Italy in both long-distance track events at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, coming twelfth over 10,000 m and tenth in the 5000 m. After the championships, a half marathon best (1:02:30 hours) came at the Udine Half Marathon and then he was runner-up behind Edwin Soi at the Giro al Sas 10K race.[8] He began 2012 with a third-place finish at the Great Ireland Run.[9]
In April 2012 he set his new personal best on 10,000 m in
He knocked almost a minute and a half off his best at the 2013
In 2019, he competed in the men's marathon at the 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, Qatar.[14] He did not finish his race.[14]
He finished 8th in the 2023 New York City Marathon, running 2:13:29.
Personal bests
- 1500 metres: 3:47.32 (2006)
- 3000 metres: 7:41.74 (2012)
- Two miles: 8:28.28 (2012)
- 5000 metres: 13:19.00 (2012)
- 10,000 metres: 27:32.86 (2012)
- 10 Km: 28:08 (2020) - national record[15]
- Half marathon: 1:01:05 (2013)
- Marathon: 2:10:45 (2018)
Achievements
Year | Competition | Venue | Event | Position | Time |
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2005 | European U23 Championships | Erfurt | 10,000 m | 14th | 30:43.41 |
2006 | European 10,000m Cup | Antalya | 10,000 m | 14th | 29:09.27 |
Team | 3rd | 1:27:10.52 | |||
European Championships | Göteborg |
10,000 m | 10th | 28:48.30 | |
European Cross-Country Championships | San Giorgio su Legnano | Youth race | 3rd | 23:16 | |
Team | 2nd | ||||
2007 | European 10,000m Cup | Ferrara | 10,000 m | 6th | 28:56.70 |
Team | 2nd | 1:27:44-24 | |||
European U23 Championships | Debrecen | 10,000 m | 3rd | 29:18.26 | |
2008 | World Cross-Country Championships
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Edinburgh | 12 km | 99th | 38:28 |
European Cup | Annecy | 5000 m | 3rd | 14: 03.04 | |
European 10,000m Cup | Istanbul | 10,000 m | 6th | 28:56.53 | |
Team | 3rd | 1:28:36.56 | |||
European Cross-Country Championships | Brussels | 10 km | 12th | 31:41 | |
2009 | European Team Championships | Leiria | 3000 m | 3rd | 8:02.22 |
2009 | World Championships
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Berlin | 5000 m | heat | 13:37.79 |
World Half Marathon Championships
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Birmingham | half marathon | 18th | 62:43 | |
European Cross-Country Championships | Dublin | 9 km | 9th | 31:42 | |
Team | 3rd | ||||
2010 | European 10,000m Cup | Marseille | 10,000 m | 8th | 28:39.05 |
European Team Championship | Bergen | 5000 m | 5th | 13:56.95 | |
European Championships | Barcelona | 10,000 m | 3rd | 28:27.33 | |
5000 m | 6th | 13:40.17 | |||
Continental Cup | Split | 3000 m | 7th | 7:57.98 | |
2011 | European Indoor Championships
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Paris | 3000 m | 11th | 8:04.82 |
2012 | European Championships | Helsinki | 10,000 m | 2nd | 28:22.73 |
Olympic Games | London | 10,000 m | 24th | 28:57.46 | |
5000 m | heat | 13:28.71 | |||
European Cross-Country Championships | Budapest | Senior race | 3rd | 30:13 | |
Team | 3rd | ||||
2013 | European Team Championships
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Gateshead | 3000 m | 9th | 8:06.46 |
Mediterranean Games | Mersin | 5000 m | 4th | 13: 45.12 | |
World Championships
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Moscow | 10,000 m | 19th | 28: 06.74 | |
2014 | Half Marathon World Championships
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Copenhagen | Half marathon | 27th | 61:57 |
European Championships | Zurich |
10,000 m | 6th | 28: 19.79 | |
Marathon | 1st | 2:11:08 | |||
2015 | World Championships
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Beijing | Marathon | 8th | 2:14:54 |
2016 | European 10,000m Cup | Mersin | 10,000 m | 1st | 28:24.71 |
Team | 1st | ||||
European Championships | Amsterdam | Half marathon | 3rd | 1:02:38 | |
Team | 3rd | ||||
2017 | World Championships
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London | Marathon | 5th | 2:10.56 |
2018 | European Cross-Country Championships | Tilburg | Team | 3rd | |
2019 | European 10,000m Cup | London | 10,000 m | 17th | 28:38.35 SB |
Team | 1st | 1:24:25.02 |
National titles
He won 10 national championships at senior level.
- Italian Athletics Championships
- 5000 m: 2007, 2008 (2)
- 10,000 m: 2006, 2007, 2010 (3)
- Half marathon: 2014 (1)
- Italian Athletics Indoor Championships
- 3000 m: 2008, 2009 (2)
- Italian Cross Country Championships
- Long race: 2011, 2017 (2)
See also
- Italian all-time top lists - 5000 metres
- Italian all-time top lists - 10000 metres
- Italian team at the running events
- List of Italian records in athletics
References
- ^ "Daniel Meucci - Biography". fidal.it. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-31.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-31.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-31.
- European Athletics(2010-09-27). Retrieved on 2010-07-31.
- ^ Final Results. 2011 European Indoors. Retrieved on 2011-10-10.
- ^ 2011 Italian Athletics Championships Results Archived 2011-06-29 at the Wayback Machine. FIDAL. Retrieved on 2011-10-10.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-10.
- ^ Martin, David (2012-04-15). Bekele sparkles with 27:49 10km in Dublin. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-04-21.
- ^ "Meucci vola al personale" (in Italian). fidal.it. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
- ^ Loeb, Lauren (2012-05-12). Meucci takes Manhattan. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-05-18.
- ^ Battaglia, Joe (2013-03-17). Wilson Kipsang gives high octane performance at chilly NYC Half. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-03-23.
- ^ "Men's 10000 m at the 2014 European Championships" (PDF). 13 August 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
- ^ IAAF. 5 October 2019. Archived from the original(PDF) on 27 June 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
- ^ "Valencia, Meucci record italiano nei 10 km" (in Italian). fidal.it. 12 January 2020. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
External links
- Daniele Meucci at World Athletics
- Daniele Meucci at Diamond League
- Daniele Meucci at the Italian Athletics Federation (in Italian)
- Daniele Meucci at Olympedia
- Daniele Meucci at the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)