Anna Incerti

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.

Anna Incerti
Incerti celebrating her gold medal in the 2010 European Championships
Personal information
National teamItaly (17 capa)
Born (1980-01-19) January 19, 1980
Palermo, Italy
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight45 kg (99 lb)
Sport
Country Italy
SportAthletics
Event(s)Long-distance running
ClubG.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
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
European Championships 1 0 0
Universiade 0 0 1
Mediterranean Games 1 0 0
Total 2 0 1
Team
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
European Marathon Cup 3 0 0
European Half Marathon Cup 0 1 0
European 10,000m Cup 0 1 2
Total 3 2 2
European Championships
2010 BarcelonaMarathon
2016 AmsterdamHalf marathon team
Universiade
2003 Daegu10,000 m
Mediterranean Games
2009 PescaraHalf marathon
European Marathon Cup
2006 GothenburgTeam marathon
2010 BarcelonaTeam marathon
2014 HelsinkiTeam marathon

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 Daegu 3rd 10,000 m 33:49.71
2006 European Championships Gothenburg 9th Marathon 2:32:53
2007 World Championships Osaka 17th Marathon 2:36:36
2008 Olympic Games Beijing 14th Marathon 2:30:55
2009 Mediterranean Games Pescara 1st Half marathon 1:12:25
2010 European Championships Barcelona 1st Marathon 2:32:48
2014 European Championships Zürich 6th Marathon 2:29:58

National titles
Anna Incerti at 2015 New York City Marathon

She won six national championships.

See also

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. 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.
  10. Butcher, Pat (25 September 2011). "Makau stuns with 2:03:38 Marathon World record in Berlin!". IAAF. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  11. Sampaolo, Diego (25 March 2012). "Jarso and Straneo beat the heat at the Stramilano". IAAF. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
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