Elisa Cusma Piccione

Elisa Cusma Piccione at the 2009 World Championships

Elisa Cusma Piccione (born July 24, 1981 in Bologna ) is an Italian middle -distance runner whose special route is the 800-meter distance .

Career

Since Elisa Cusma Piccione first became the Italian champion over 800 meters in 2005, she has also participated in the major international championships. At the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg and the 2007 World Championships in Osaka , she was eliminated in the semifinals, where she set her personal best in the 2007 semifinals with 1: 58.63 min. At the World Indoor Championships in Valencia in 2008 she reached the finals and finished sixth in 2: 03.76 minutes. In the outdoor season she won her fourth Italian championship title in a row, but retired from the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing again in the semifinals.

At the European Indoor Championships in 2009 in front of a home crowd in Turin, she ran to the bronze medal in 2: 00.23 minutes. At the first European team championships , which were held in Leiria that same year, Cusma Piccione, after finishing seventh over 800 meters, also competed over 1500 meters and finished third here. At the World Championships in Berlin she was limited to the 800 meters and was sixth in 1: 58.81 min. At the European Championships in Barcelona in 2010 , she was eliminated in advance.

Elisa Cusma Piccione is 1.66 m tall and weighs 50 kg. She is trained by Claudio Guizzardi and starts for the Italian army . Her father is the former European lightweight boxing champion Lucio Cusma .

Best times

800 m: 1: 58.63 min, August 26, 2007, Osaka
- Hall: 1: 59.25 min, February 15, 2009, Karlsruhe
1500 m: 4: 04.98 min, July 13, 2009, Athens
- Hall: 4: 17.17 min, February 18, 2006, Ancona

literature

Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2009. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2009, ISBN 978-1-899807-78-9 .

Web links

Elisa Cusma in the database of World Athletics (English)
Elisa Cusma Piccione in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

↑ Elisa Cusma married a Mr. Piccione. Since there are no double names in Italy and she does not want to run as Elisa Piccione, she continues to start as Elisa Cusma. The world association IAAF, however, uses the double name in all lists and then the ATFS statistics association, which publishes the Athletics Yearbook, uses the double name in all lists. The main sources use a name form that does not exist in this form in Italy.

personal data
SURNAME	Cusma Piccione, Elisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cusma, Elisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian middle distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH	July 24, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bologna

[1] Elisa Cusma married a Mr. Piccione. Since there are no double names in Italy and she does not want to run as Elisa Piccione, she continues to start as Elisa Cusma. The world association IAAF, however, uses the double name in all lists and then the ATFS statistics association, which publishes the Athletics Yearbook, uses the double name in all lists. The main sources use a name form that does not exist in this form in Italy.