One hundred athletes at the start for the 70th edition, the record that dates back to 1982 unbeaten.
TAVAGNASCO
Eric Manfredi of the Des Amis Sports Group, with a time of 43 minutes and nineteen seconds, won the seventieth edition of the “Tavagnasco – Santa Maria Maddalena ai Piani”, regional race of vertical km mountain running, seventh round of the first Piedmont Parks Mountains trophy 2021. In the women’s field first was Elisabetta Piacenza, of the Cafasse Athletic Sports Union, in fifty-three minutes and fifty-six seconds.
Organized by the Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Podista Valchiusella, the Running Committee Plans, in collaboration with Atletica Monte Rosa “Mauro and Giuseppe Fogu” and with the patronage of the Municipality of Tavagnasco, the race saw about a hundred runners at the starting line. appointment from the early hours of the morning of Sunday 18, July in the locality of Gerbioni at the Alpi restaurant bar in Tavagnasco for the traditional collection of bibs followed by the long-awaited departure from the center of the bridge over the Dora Baltea.
The longest-lived in Europe
The mountain race of Tavagnasco, with seventy continuous editions, is the longest running in Europe, born in 1952 for a challenge between the boys of the town. The race starts at an altitude of 286 meters and then arrives at the church of Santa Maria Maddalena ai Piani, at an altitude of 1,337 meters. There are a total of 4,475 kilometers of development and 1,051 meters of altitude difference, on the route of the maximum slope allowed by the splendid and spectacular trails in the area.
As expected, it was necessary to use goggles in the start and finish areas with the obligation to wear them during the warm-up and for the first 500 meters of the race, and once back at the finish line. Among the men behind Eric Manfredi was Simone Girodo (APD Pont Saint Martin) in 45.11, third Silvio Balzaretti (Atletica Monterosa Fogu) in 45.19, followed in order by Niccolò Biazzetti (Atletica Monterosa Fogu) 45.23, Emanuele Falla (Valsusa Running Team) 45.33, Carlo Torello Viera (GSD Genzianella) 46.28, Manuel Bosini (Atletica Monterosa Fogu), Alfonso Bracco (APD Pont Saint Martin) 47.27, Matteo Rinaldi Biolcati (Pietro Micca Biella Running) 48.25, tenth Xavier Jean Villanese (Atletica Monterosa Fogu) in 50.15. In the women’s field behind Elisabetta Piacenza was Federica Quaccia (ASD Castlerun) in 54.54, third place for Nora Gilardi (Atletica Susa Adriano Aschieris) in 59.22.
Chiampo’s 1982 record
Given the results achieved on Sunday by the athletes, the historic record of 37 minutes and 36 seconds obtained by Piergiorgio Chiampo in the now distant 1982 continues to resist.