Tiziana Alagia
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Tiziana Alagia (born 8 March 1973) is a retired
World Championships in Athletics
in 2001. A one-time Italian marathon champion, her best for the distance was 2:27:53 hours. She primarily competed in Italy and won marathon races in Florence, Carpi, Turin, Padova and Piacenza.
Biography
Born in
track at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics and was 14th in the 10,000 metres final. She represented Italy at the 1995 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships and began to make her impact on the road running scene in the late 1990s under the tutelage of Renato Canova.[1]
Alagia had consecutive wins at the Vivicittà Firenze 12K in 1997 and 1998.[2] She made her debut over the marathon distance at the Millennium for Peace marathon in Assisi, coming fourth.[3] She broke the women's course record to win at the Cannes Half Marathon in February 2002 and went on to take two marathon wins later that year, first at the Cesano Boscone Marathon and then the Florence Marathon.[4][5][6] She ended a breakthrough year with a win at the Best Woman 10 km in Fiumicino.[7]
A career best run of 1:11:29 for the
European Cup 10000m and was chosen for the marathon at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics, where she again finished in 21st (just behind team mate Rosaria Console).[10] Alagia won her first national title in 2002, as she won the women's race at the Italian Marathon in Carpi in a time of 2:30:24 hours. She won the Maratona del Salento in Parabita that year.[11] He only major appearance of 2003 came at the Florence Marathon, where she was third.[1] She missed most of the season through injury, but vowed to return to top level competition the following year.[12]
Alagia trained in
Vienna Marathon.[11]
See also
References
- ^ a b c Tiziana Alagia (maratona/marathon). FIDAL. Retrieved on 2011-05-02.
- ^ Civai, Franco (2011-04-07). Vivicittà Firenze Half Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2011-05-02.
- ^ 1999 Classifica generale Femminile (in Italian). Assisi Marathon (archived). Retrieved on 2011-05-02.
- ^ Cannes Half Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians (2011-03-23). Retrieved on 2011-05-02.
- ^ Cesano Boscone Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians (2007-09-04). Retrieved on 2011-05-02.
- ^ Firenze Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians (2010-12-04). Retrieved on 2011-05-02.
- ^ Civai, Franco & Gasparovic, Juraj (2011-02-06). Best Woman 10K. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2011-05-02.
- ^ Civai, Franco (2011-03-06). Half Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2011-05-02.
- ^ Wim van Hemert, Marty Post & Franco Civai (2010-11-18). Turin Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2011-05-02.
- ^ 2001 World Championships – Women's Marathon Results Archived 2009-08-15 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-05-02.
- ^ a b Alagia Tiziana. Marathon Info. Retrieved on 2011-05-02.
- ^ Sampaolo, Diego (2004-04-25). Kenya and Italy share honours in Padua Marathon. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-05-02.
- ^ Civai, Franco & Loonstra, Klaas (2011-03-07). Piacenza Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2011-05-02.
- ^ Sampaolo, Diego (2004-04-04). Kipchumba takes Stramilano win. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-05-02.
- ^ Sampaolo, Diego (2005-03-14). Di Cecco wins Rome Marathon in 2:08:02. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-05-02.
- ^ Sampaolo, Diego (2005-04-10). Kiprotich in the world’s fastest time of 2005 takes Stramilano honours. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-05-02.
External links
- Tiziana Alagia at World Athletics
- Tiziana Alagia at the Italian Athletics Federation (in Italian)
