The standard bearer of the Nuova Atletica del Friuli goes beyond the pandemic: four golds in Viterbo in the tricolor throws of the Masters
UDINE. No one like the Triestine standard bearer of the Nuova Athletics from Friuli di Udine Nives Fozzer has been able to challenge Covid. At the ripe old age of 91, which took place last January. At the Tricolori master winter launches in Viterbo, the multiple Italian master champion, born in 1931, has been competing for years for the Udinese club of president Giorgio Dannisi, and has extended her already prestigious chain of medals by another four golds. Stainless thrower won them over in throwing the hammer with short handle, the discus, the javelin and the normal hammer.
A poker of victories in the SF / 90 category in which he scored among other things the best Italian performance in the hammer fell at 6.59 meters while he landed the puck at 9.32 meters, the javelin at 8.15 meters and the hammer normal at 13.04 meters. A life of competitive spirit and a thousand feats that of the immarcescible Trieste who as a young sprinter from 1957 to 1959 retouched the absolute regional record of 400 meters nine times up to bring it on 7 June 1959 to 59 “ 7 becoming the first regional woman go under one minute in the lap of the track.
A record that was then improved by Elena Schiavo from Udine before he established himself as a midfielder with the “vice of goals”. Last year at the Italian master championships in Lecce, Fozzer felt the satisfaction of hitting five titles dominating the modern pentathlon with 3,205 points raked in the disc, hammer, weight, javelin and hammer races. The Fidal membership of Nives Fozzer dates back to 1949 and is still present in the absolute regional rankings. “As I hoped – says Nives Fozzer – I won the four races in which, as always, I had prepared myself consistently, overcoming the problems of the pandemic without any difficulty, as I have always done since 1948 when I started attending the Grezar field competing for the clubs. Trieste. In 1980, when the amateur activity of the masters exploded, I decided to marry at the Naf in Udine, where together with the masters’ co-host and late Alfio Surza and his wife Maria, who recently passed away, we joined Anna Flaibani, Brunella Del Giudice and Silvano Gottardo of Italian, European and world laurels “.
Enthusiastic about the results of his athlete Giorgio Dannisi declares: «Considering the difficult period we are experiencing, Nives’ performances turn out to be even more significant. He participated in the championships following the vaccination where he was able to confirm his extraordinary longevity as an athlete of example for all ».
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