Elisabetta Perrone

Elisabetta Perrone (born July 9, 1968 in Camburzano ) is a former Italian walker who finished second in the 1996 Olympic Games.

At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​Perrone finished 19th in a 10 km walk in 46:43 minutes. A year later she made her breakthrough to the top of the world. At the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart in 1993 she was fourth in 43:26 minutes, five seconds behind the Spaniard Encarnacion Granados . In Helsinki at the European Athletics Championships in 1994 she went 43:47 min and finished seventh.

She won her first medal at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg. It was a very close race in which the first four walkers crossed the finish line within seven seconds. The 18-year-old Irina Stankina won with a three-second lead over Perrone in 42:16 minutes. Jelena Nikolajewa and Sari Essayah took third and fourth place in 42:20 minutes. The decision at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was much clearer: Nikolajewa won in 41:49 minutes ahead of Perrone in 42:12 minutes. Over the next few years, Perrone was no longer in the form she had been in the previous two years. A tenth place at the 1997 World Championships in Athens was followed by an eleventh place at the 1998 European Championships .

Starting in 1999, walking 20 km replaced 10 km walking as the official competition discipline at international championships. Perrone finished 21st at the 1999 World Championships in Seville and was disqualified for the first time in a major competition at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. After four years without a front placement at the season highlight, Perrone returned to world class at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton. Behind Olimpiada Iwanowa and Valjanzina Zybulskaja , she reached Bronze Square in 1:28:56 h. A year later she was sixth at the 2002 European Championships in Munich. At the end of her career, Perrone came in 18th at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

Elisabetta Perrone is 1.68 m tall and weighed 55 kg during her competition time.

Best times

• 3000 meters walk: 11: 56.40 min (1993)
• 5000 meters walking by train: 20: 12.41 min (2003)
• 10 kilometers of street walking: 42:09 min (1996)
• 20 kilometers of street walking: 1:27:09 h (2001)

literature

• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2005. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2005, ISBN 1-899807-27-6 .

Web links

• Elisabetta Perrone in the database of World Athletics (English)