Valeria Straneo
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| Nationality | Italian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 April 1976 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 44 kg (97 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Italy Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Long distance running | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Runner Team 99 Laguna Running | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Beatrice Brossa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Valeria Straneo (born 5 April 1976) is an Italian long-distance runner, winner of the silver medal at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics and Italian record holder in the marathon.
She won the Stramilano in 2011 and bettered the half marathon Italian record at the Roma-Ostia Half Marathon in 2012, although it was not ratified as the course doesn't meet Fidal criteria.[1]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Born in Alessandria, it was only after the removal of her spleen, in 2010, that she began to reach a national standard of running. At 35 years old, she ranked eighth in the 2011 Berlin Marathon with a time of 2:26:33 hours. This met the qualifying standard for the 2012 Olympic Games, but three other athletes had run faster than her (Anna Incerti, Rosaria Console and Nadia Ejjafini).[2][3] However, she broke the 12-year-old Italian record at the Rotterdam Marathon in April, finishing as runner-up with a time of 2:23:44 hours.[4][5] The Turin Marathon saw her finish third with a time of 2:27:04 hours.[6]
Straneo has represented the Italy national athletics team once (at the 2011 European Cross Country Championships) and has won twice at the national championships. She has two children, Leonardo (born 2006) and Arianna (born 2007).[2]
National records
[edit | edit source]- Half marathon: 1:07:46 (Italy Ostia, 26 February 2012) - Current holder.[4]
- Marathon: 2:23:44 (Netherlands Rotterdam, 15 April 2012) - Current holder.[7]
Achievements
[edit | edit source]| Year | Competition | Venue | Result | Event | Time | Notes |
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| 2011 | European Cross Country Championships |  Velenje
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10th | Cross country running | 26:42 | |
| 2012 | Olympic Games | United Kingdom London | 8th | Marathon | 2:25:27 | Changed to 7th after disqualification of Tetyana Hamera-Shmyrko[8] |
| 2013 | Mediterranean Games |  Mersin
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1st | Half Marathon | 1:11:00 | File:Sport records icon CR.svg |
| World Championships in Athletics | Russia Moscow | 2nd | Marathon | 2:25:58 | File:Sport records icon SB.svg | |
| 2014 | European Championships in Athletics | Switzerland Zurich | 2nd | Marathon | 2:25:27 | |
| 2016 | Olympic Games | Brazil Rio de Janeiro | 13th[8] | Marathon | 2:29:44 | File:Sport records icon SB.svg |
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Road races
[edit | edit source]- 1st - 2011 Stramilano
- 2nd - 2012 Rotterdam Marathon
National titles
[edit | edit source]Straneo won eight national championships at individual senior level, she has won, at 36 years old for her first time, the individual national championship.[2][9]
- Italian Athletics Championships
- 10,000 metres: 2013, 2020 (2)
- Half marathon: 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020 (4)
- Italian 10 km road Championship
- 10 km road race: 2011, 2012 (2)
See also
[edit | edit source]- Italian records in athletics
- Italian all-time lists - Half marathon
- Italian all-time lists - Marathon
References
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External links
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- 1976 births
- Living people
- Italian women long-distance runners
- Italian women marathon runners
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Italy
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Italy
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
- Italian Athletics Championships winners
- 20th-century Italian women
- 21st-century Italian sportswomen
- Sportspeople from Alessandria
- Athletes from Piedmont