Ruggero Pertile
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Ruggero Pertile (born August 8, 1974 in Camposampiero , Province of Padua ) is an Italian marathon runner .
In 1999 he was twelfth in his debut in the Venice Marathon . In 2001 at the Florence Marathon , lying in a promising position, he was misdirected and could not finish the race. A fifth place at the Milan Marathon in 2002 was followed by a fourth at the Maratona di Sant'Antonio in 2003 , which qualified him for the World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis . There he finished 23rd.
In 2004 he won the Rome Marathon and came third in the Maratona d'Italia . The following year he was eighth in the Lake Biwa Marathon and came in 35th place at the World Championships in Helsinki .
In 2006 he was sixth at the Stramilano and as the overall winner of the Maratona di Sant'Antonio Italian champion, but did not reach the goal at the European Championships in Gothenburg . In 2007 he finished seventh in the Boston Marathon and sixth in the New York City Marathon, and finished 32nd in the World Road Running Championships in Udine .
At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 he came fourth-best European in 15th place. The following year he came second in the Turin Marathon .
In 2010 Pertile became national champion in the half marathon . At the marathon of the European Championships in Barcelona he held a medal rank for a long time, but was pushed to fourth place on the last kilometers by Dmitri Safronov . In autumn he won in Turin.
In 2011 he finished seventh at Roma - Ostia and second in Milan. At the World Championships in Daegu he was the best European in eighth place. At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, he reached tenth place.
Ruggero Pertile is 1.70 m tall and weighs 55 kg. The athlete with the nickname "Rero" is trained by Massimo Magnani and starts for Assindustria Padova. Until his victory in Rome in 2004, he worked part-time in a supermarket; since then he has been a professional athlete.
Personal bests
- 5000 m : 13: 55.86 min, July 11, 1997, Ponzano Veneto
- 10,000 m : 28: 56.63 min, May 22, 2005, Vigna di Valle
- 10 km road run : 28:31 min, September 30, 2007, Milan
- Half marathon: 1:02:17 h, October 14, 2007, Udine
- Marathon: 2:09:53 h, April 19, 2009, Turin
Web links
- Ruggero Pertile in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait at FIDAL
- Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
- Ruggero Pertile in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ^ IAAF: Double "home" triumph in Rome Marathon ( Memento of April 13, 2004 in the Internet Archive ). March 28, 2004
- ^ IAAF: Pertile and Mancini take Italian titles in a warm Padua Marathon ( Memento of April 24, 2006 in the Internet Archive ). April 23, 2006
- ^ IAAF: Pertile surprises in rainy Turin, Jeptoo takes women's crown ( Memento of November 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). November 14, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pertile, Ruggero |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian marathon runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Camposampiero , Province of Padua |