from our correspondent
ZURICH – Daniele Meucci, the guy who studies the robot, is the new European champion marathon. On the streets of Zurich, a ritch identical to the one on which he trains at his home in Cascina, Province of Pisa, has won a major gold under the eyes not only of his coach, Massimo Magnani, but Luciano Gigliotti, the man that led to Olympic gold before Gelindo Bordin in Seoul ’88 and then Stefano Baldini in Athens 2004 “We have found the marathon tomorrow,” said Gigliotti sentenced seeing Meucci run. “It’s the most beautiful medal because unexpected – he told the blue holding in her arms the little Darius, the son of two and a half years while her daughter, Naomi, just ten months, he slept in a stroller by his mother watched Giada – just like the Bronze 10000 in Barcelona in 2010. “
With a prudent conduct of the race, taking the lead after the thirtieth mile, Daniele has passed the first Polish Marcin Chabowski, that shortly after he retired, and then he flew solo to the finish line by cutting it in 2h11’08 “. Chabowski after a few kilometers tried to surprise everyone with an escape. No one behind, tried to braccarlo. The former European junior champion of the 3000 steeplechase hoped to cope with the great advantage gained, but it has not come to terms with his legs, and with the liver. Meucci has approached the thirtieth mile and had reduced the deficit to 41 “before taking after 1:48 a.m. ‘, the head of the race. Chabowski dumped while behind another Pole, though born in Ethiopia (Europe’s passport), Yared Sheguma in that country was called Yared Nida and ran the 400 meters with good results, it was able to reach the second place with a delay 52 out of the blue. ” Just beyond (2h12’15 “), the Russian Aleksey Reunkov who had already tried the marathon in Zurich having placed fifth in this year’s international competition earlier this year. In fifth place (2:13 a.m. “07″), celebrated as a hero, the master of the house, Viktor Rothlin who is now closed, a 40-year-old’s career.
Engineer of the robot, Daniel is working on Pisa to those for the exploration of the seabed and collect at the bottom of the sea, unexploded mines. “I’m doing my PhD, I Paice this experience because I can not think only of athletics.” This race has prepared her share in the first months of 2014, in Albuquerque, then after working at home is back on the rise, a St.Mortiz where he was with the whole family and Zurich arrived last Tuesday. “I came into the car and drove my partner.”
The calcium in her past, left wing in the team of his country, at 16 she decided to pursue athletics. In Zurich, Meucci has never watched the way. “I described him Massimo (Magnani, his coach, Ed) and I realized it was one of my home. He ran last fall in New York. “After that marathon (tenth in 2h12’03″) I decided that I would dedicate myself to this race. The track is beautiful, the beautiful road. “
Running is fine, without the hassle of running stopwatch wonderful. “Today, I’ve never looked at the clock, I listened to my feeling, but at one point I said to myself that I had to take risks to win,” he said recalling that the last 10 minutes of the match were terrible. “Three kilometers from the arrival I told Magnani I stop. He told me: you have to get to power. I could not obey. “
Italy has seen the seventh place of Ruggero Pertile (2h14’18 “) and the 32nd of Michele Palamini (2h21’32″). For as little as 10 seconds, the team was down from the podium of the European Cup won by Russia ahead of France and Switzerland.
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