Coppa Città di Sesto San Giovanni

The Coppa Città di Sesto San Giovanni is an annual racewalking competition that takes place on 1 May in Sesto San Giovanni in Italy. It is an elite level event which features a men's and a women's race in the 20 kilometres race walk.

Pino Dordoni (left) and Abdon Pamich at the 1961 race.

Organised by Geas Atletica,[1] it has been part of the IAAF World Race Walking Challenge – the highest seasonal level of the sport – since the series was inaugurated in 2003.[2]

The competition was first established in 1957 as a men's only road walking competition.[3] After various distances ranging from 25 to 32 kilometres in its initial years, the race settled on a 30 km distance from 1960 onwards.[4] A women's race was included from 1980 onwards.[5] The women's races were initially over 10 kilometres in the early history of that competition.[4] The event's inclusion in the IAAF World Challenge series saw it adopt the standard Olympic distance of 20 km for both the men's and women's races. The race has been held every year since 1957 with the sole exception of 1995, where it was postponed due to organisational issues.[6]

The course for the race is a looped circuit directly in the centre of the city. The main route alternates along the parallel roads of Via Fratelli Bandiera and Via Giuseppe Rovani and the finishing point is a lap of the track and field stadium at the western end of the roads.[7]

Past winners

Key:   Course record

Men's 30 km race era
Edition Year Men's winner Time (h:m:s)
1st 1957  Pino Dordoni (ITA) ? (25K)
2nd 1958  Pino Dordoni (ITA) 2:13:08 (25K)
3rd 1959  Pino Dordoni (ITA) 2:47:22 (32K)
4th 1960 ? ?
5th 1961  Abdon Pamich (ITA) 2:36:55
6th 1962  Abdon Pamich (ITA) ?
7th 1963  Abdon Pamich (ITA) 2:28:11
8th 1964  Abdon Pamich (ITA) ?
9th 1965  Abdon Pamich (ITA) ?
10th 1966  Abdon Pamich (ITA) ?
11th 1967  Abdon Pamich (ITA) ?
12th 1968  Peter Fullager (GBR) 2:25:02,4
13th 1969  Christoph Höhne (GDR) 2:27:47
14th 1970  Peter Selzer (GDR) ?
15th 1971  H Maier (FRG) ?
16th 1972  Nikolay Smaga (URS) 2:28:31
17th 1973  Bernhard Kannenberg (GER) ?
18th 1974  Bernhard Kannenberg (GER) 2:30:34
19th 1975  Franco Vecchio (ITA) 2:29:20
20th 1976  Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller (GDR) ?
21st 1977  Vittorio Visini (ITA) 2:25:40
22nd 1978  Sandro Bellucci (ITA) 2:24:21
23rd 1979  José Marín (ESP) 2:19:07

First men's and women's races
Edition Year Men's winner Time (h:m:s) Women's winner Time (h:m:s)
24th 1980  Domenico Carpentieri (ITA) 2:22:28  Giuliana Salce (ITA) ? (5K)
25th 1981  Sandro Bellucci (ITA) 2:22:36  Carol Tyson (GBR) ?
26th 1982  Maurizio Damilano (ITA) 2:16:25  Ann Jansson (SWE) 24:16
27th 1983  José Marín (ESP) 2:18:14  Giuliana Salce (ITA) 24:09
28th 1984  Raffaello Ducceschi (ITA) 2:10:07  María Reyes Sobrino (ESP) 24:20
29th 1985  Jorge Llopart (ESP) 2:12:12  Ann Jansson (SWE) 46:59
30th 1986  Raffaello Ducceschi (ITA) ?  Olga Krishtop (URS) ?
31st 1987  Reima Salonen (FIN) ?  Kerry Saxby (AUS) ?
32nd 1988  Jozef Pribilinec (SVK) 2:09:49  Kerry Saxby (AUS) 45:18
33rd 1989  Maurizio Damilano (ITA) ?  Ileana Salvador (ITA) 44:24
34th 1990  Ernesto Canto (MEX) 2:08:49  Kerry Saxby (AUS) 44:31
35th 1991  Andrey Perlov (URS) 2:06:09  Olga Kardopoltseva (URS) ?
36th 1992  Giovanni Perricelli (ITA) ?  Ileana Salvador (ITA) 42:07
37th 1993  Mikhail Shchennikov (RUS) ?  Ileana Salvador (ITA) ?
38th 1994  Mikhail Shchennikov (RUS) ?  Annarita Sidoti (ITA) 42:45
— 1995 — — — —
39th 1996  Aleksandar Raković (YUG) ?  Rossella Giordano (ITA) 42:36
40th 1997  Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA) ?  Annarita Sidoti (ITA) ?
41st 1998  Alessandro Gandellini (ITA) 1:22:01  Valentina Tsybulskaya (BLR) 43:47
42nd 1999  Ilya Markov (RUS) 39:01  Yelena Nikolayeva (RUS) 42:04
43rd 2000  Ilya Markov (RUS) ?  Elisabetta Perrone (ITA) 41:19
44th 2001  Marco Giungi (ITA) ?  Elisabetta Perrone (ITA) 43:07
45th 2002  Aigars Fadejevs (LAT) 2:06:13  Kjersti Plätzer (NOR) 43:35

IAAF-era (20 km)
Edition Year Men's winner Time (h:m:s) Women's winner Time (h:m:s)
46th[8] 2003  Paquillo Fernández (ESP) 1:19:25  Gillian O'Sullivan (IRL) 1:27:22
47th 2004  Alessandro Gandellini (ITA) 1:21:16  Elisa Rigaudo (ITA) 1:30:23
48th[9] 2005  Paquillo Fernández (ESP) 1:19:54  Ryta Turava (BLR) 1:28:43
49th 2006  Ilya Markov (RUS) 1:20:28  Ryta Turava (BLR) 1:29:22
50th[10] 2007  Erik Tysse (NOR) 1:21:38  Ryta Turava (BLR) 1:27:10
51st 2008  Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 1:20:31  Kjersti Plätzer (NOR) 1:30:07
52nd[11] 2009  Paquillo Fernández (ESP) 1:19:57  Kjersti Plätzer (NOR) 1:28:50
53rd[12] 2010  Alex Schwazer (ITA) 1:20:29  Vera Santos (POR) 1:28:29
54th[13] 2011  Valeriy Borchin (RUS) 1:19:43  Olga Kaniskina (RUS) 1:29:32
55th 2012  Eder Sánchez (MEX) 1:24:52  Tatyana Sibileva (RUS) 1:30:35
56th 2013[14]  Matej Tóth (SVK) 1:22:02  Elena Lashmanova (RUS) 1:32:07

Further reading
  • Redaelli, Daniele & Narducci, Fausto (2007). Sesto San Giovanni, una città in marcia. SEP.
  • La Torre, Antonio & Vernill, Gianluca (2009). La marcia femminile (1980-2009) e Sesto San Giovanni.

References
  1. LVI Coppa Citta' di Sesto San Giovanni - Marcia Int.le - FIDAL. FIDAL. Retrieved on 2013-05-02.
  2. IAAF Race Walking Challenge Standings. IAAF (2003-05-07). Retrieved on 2013-05-02.
  3. Sesto San Giovanni, una citta' in marcia Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian). SestoSG. Retrieved on 2013-05-02.
  4. Sesto San Giovanni - 30 Km.. Multimedia Visini. Retrieved on 2013-05-02.
  5. La marcia femminile (1980-2009) e Sesto San Giovanni Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine. SestoSG. Retrieved on 2013-05-02.
  6. http://www.sestosg.net/lucisu/dettaglio/,1842?p_arg_names=mese&p_arg_values=2&p_arg_names=anno&p_arg_values=2012 Marcia 1° Maggio: mancano 14 giorni...] (in Italian). SestoSG. Retrieved on 2013-05-02.
  7. Circuito Archived 2013-07-02 at Archive.today. SestoWalks. Retrieved on 2013-05-02.
  8. Marcia, Fernandez e O\'Sullivan vincono a Sesto. FIDAL. Retrieved on 2013-05-02.
  9. Turava and Fern\xe1ndez rise to the top of Race Walking in latest IAAF World Rankings. IAAF (2005-05-03). Retrieved on 2013-05-02.
  10. Sampaolo, Diego (2007-05-01). Comfortable victories for Turava, Tysse in Sesto San Giovanni - IAAF Race Walking Challenge - UPDATED. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-05-02.
  11. Sampaolo, Diego (2009-05-01). Fernandez and Platzer take Sesto San Giovanni titles – IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-05-02.
  12. Sampaolo, Diego (2010-05-02). Schwazer and Santos dominate in Sesto San Giovanni - IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-05-02.
  13. Sampaolo, Diego (2011-05-01). Borchin and Kaniskina dominate in Sesto San Giovanni – IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-05-02.
  14. Sampaolo, Diego (2013-05-01). Lashmanova and Toth victorious in Sesto San Giovanni. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-05-02.
List of winners
  • Opuscolo. Sesto San Giovanni. Retrieved on 2013-05-06.
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