Codroipo calls the US: «Vai Vissa», on Saturday the middle distance runner will make her debut at the World Championships

CODROIPO. For some seasons he has been competing for Brugnera Friulintagli. In the United States she is a protagonist of the NCAA university championship. Before her, from 9 to 20 years, she was however part of the Atletica 2000 of Codroipo.

It goes without saying that, in the early hours of Saturday 16 July, the whole society of Medio Friuli will cheer on Sintayehu Vissa, who is involved in the Eugene athletics world championships. The middle-distance runner of the national team, born in 1996, will compete at 3.10 Italian time in the 1,500 meters battery.

Councilors, managers and sympathizers of the Udine association are organizing to watch the race of Sinta, a girl born in Ethiopia and adopted by a family from Pozzecco di Bertiolo, together on TV. And her mother Annetta is still part of the board of directors of Atletica 2000, a club proud to see an athlete who has grown up in her youth sector at the World Cup.

«The schedule is not the best, but we will meet to follow it – assures Matteo Tonutti, sporting director of the Friulian club and Vissa’s first coach -. We will probably meet at the Polisportivo di Codroipo. It is a great satisfaction for us to know that it has come this far. Now we hope that he will advance to the semifinals ».

For the middle distance runner it is the absolute debut in the national team and at the world championships. Inexperience at this level may play a bad joke, but on Eugene Sinta’s track she won the NCAA championships in the 1,500 last spring. She therefore knows the ring on which she will perform. The criteria instead linked to the passage of the shift. Probably the best six of each heat will qualify (there could be three) plus the best six times.

«The debut hides pitfalls, we must immediately break the ice – says Tonutti -. If she were to go on, given her resilience, nothing can be precluded. ”

The semifinal is in fact scheduled for Sunday at 4.05 am Italian time. Eventual final on Tuesday at 4.50 (always Italian time). «Sinta has become a high-level athlete, capable of supporting heavy workloads – always underlines the sports director of Atletica 2000 -. In the United States, you are able to do up to 13 workouts per week. You mix quantity with quality. We have prepared it over the years. In this sense, what you did with our coach Cornelio Giavedoni was important ».

Vissa also practiced 400 and 400 obstacles at the time. Following the definitive transition to middle distance.

“The determination and the fact of having clear objectives are its strengths”, reveals Tonutti, who adds: “As a club we are also waiting for the exploit of Costanza Donato, born in 2000, a national sprinter on 100 and 100 obstacles. . She grew up with us (now at Bracco Atletica, ed) and she can still achieve a lot from athletics ».

Meanwhile, Sinta’s debut at the world championships. That after the first call in blue he does not want to stop.