Alberico Di Cecco
Alberico Di Cecco (born April 19, 1974 in Guardiagrele ) is an Italian marathon runner .
Life
In his debut on the 42.195 km distance he came in 19th place at the Maratona d'Italia in 2:20:23 h in 1996 . The following year he finished 13th in the Turin Marathon .
His breakthrough came in 2000 when he finished second at the Maratona d'Italia. In 2001 he was third in the Rome Marathon and came 17th at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton . In 2002 he won the Piacenza Marathon and Turin and was twelfth at the European Athletics Championships in Munich . With another third place in Rome, he qualified for the 2003 World Cup in Paris / Saint-Denis, where he finished 22nd. In the New York City Marathon he was fifth.
In 2004 he was nominated after a sixth place in the Treviso Marathon and a second in Turin for the Olympic Games in Athens , where he was ninth. In 2005 he won in Rome and was sixth in New York City. In 2006 he finished second in the Venice Marathon . He also came second in 2007 at the Maratona di Sant'Antonio and the Florence Marathon . In 2008 he repeated his second place at the Maratona di Sant'Antonio. At the Maratona d'Italia he finished fifth, but was tested positive for erythropoietin (EPO) during the subsequent doping control . He was then disqualified and suspended for two years for this violation of the doping rules.
Alberico Di Cecco is 1.74 meters tall and weighs 62 kg. He is trained by Romano Tordelli and starts for the Carabinieri Bologna.
Personal bests
- 10,000 m : 28: 48.51 min, June 17th 2000, Carpi
- Half marathon : 1:01:55 h, April 1, 2002, Prato
- Marathon: 2:08:02 h, March 13, 2005, Rome
Web links
- Alberico Di Cecco in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait ( memento from February 5, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) at FIDAL
- Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
- Alberico Di Cecco in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ^ IAAF: Di Cecco wins Rome Marathon in 2:08:02 ( memento from March 15, 2005 in the Internet Archive ). March 13, 2005
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Di Cecco, Alberico |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian marathon runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guardiagrele |