TARVISIO.The regional sport in mourning for the death of Mariano Malfitana, 70-year-old technician and manager mainly in the service of Nordic skiing, but also organizer of major mountain running events such as the alpine relay of Monte Lussari and the Berglauf Tarvisio-Lussari. of athletics meeting.
He was also responsible for the Etna marathon, a race starting at sea level and arriving at high altitude as far as the lava flows allowed. Mariano Malfitana was, in fact, a native of Linguaglossa, the town perched on the slopes of the volcano in the province of Catania, as his brother-in-law Paolo Tessitori remembers, also a committed director of the Sci Cai Monte Lussari.
Malfitana in his youth had been a promising cross-country skier. He had joined the Gs delle Fiamme Gialle in Predazzo at the age of eighteen and after a year the financier arrived in Tarvisio to compete with the Fifth Legion of the Guardia di Finanza. In Tarvisio he met Lucia Tessitori who he brought to the altar forming his family while the innate dynamism in him led him to work as a cross-country coach and to also engage in the field of athletics with Us Mario Tosi, a partnership of which he became president and above all supporter of the organization of important competitions and meetings hosted at the Polisportivo.
“Thanks to his very valid work – underlines the colonel of the Carabinieri Adolfo Faidiga, former president of Tosi – we have given new impetus to the company and now we all owe gratitude and gratitude to this man of value”. Person of great equilibrium Malfitana had been able to work constructively for the collaboration between sports clubs. His latest creation was the recent Italian cross country championships hosted at the Paruzzi arena last March, an event strongly desired by him involving, the ski college Bachmann, Sci Cai Monte Lussarie and Sc Weissenfels. And how can we forget that Malfitana was the manager of the fund at the 2003 Universiade in Tarvisio.
His was a 360 ° dedication to sporting activity aimed at the growth of young athletes, which saw him even more committed after a terrible car accident in France in July 2011 caused the death of the only and beloved daughter Elena, recently graduated in languages. He has always made his technical skills as a cross-country ski coach available to young people and there are many athletes he has shaped, starting with Antonella Bidinot who was blue at the time of Manuela Di Centa to get to the young hopes of today’s national fund. . In recent years he has worked as head of cross-country skiing of the Sci Cai Monte Lussari, as a coach of the students of the Ski College Bachmann also making himself available to the team of the Regional Fisi Committee. “With his untimely death the whole community – comments the mayor Renzo Zanette in addressing his family expressions of great closeness – loses an irreplaceable point of reference”.