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Giro al Sas

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The Giro al Sas, also known as the Giro Podistico di Trento and the Giro Internazionale Città di Trento, is an annual 10-kilometre road running competition for men which takes place in October in the city of Trento, Italy.

Giro al Sas
The Piazza del Duomo is the race start and finish point
DateMid-October
LocationTrento, Italy Italy
Event typeRoad
Distance10 km
Established1907
Official siteGiro al Sas

First held as a part of celebrations for Saint Vigilius of Trent in 1907, the competition was interrupted by World Wars but has been held virtually every year since 1945. This makes it one of Europe's longest-running competitions of its type. The race has been won by some of Italy's most successful long-distance runners, including Stefano Baldini, as well as elite foreign athletes such as Paul Tergat and Kenenisa Bekele.

The race is held within the city centre and starts and finishes at Piazza del Duomo. The name of the race, roughly translated as the Sas Circuit, derives from the fact that the course features ten kilometre-long loops on the main city streets – which are locally referred to as al Sas.

The running event should not be confused with the similarly named Giro del Trentino – a road cycling competition which the city has hosted since 1963.[1]

History edit

The history of the competition can be traced back to 1907 when a community group organised a race on the city streets of roughly 6 km as part of the festival of Saint Vigilius of Trent. Domenico Gottin, a runner from Veneto, was the first to cross the line but he was later disqualified for taking a short cut, leaving Isidoro Trenner (a member of the local sports club) as the winner of the inaugural race. The race became an annual tradition, although it ceased during World War I.[2]

 
Trento Cathedral is central to the race circuit.

It re-emerged in the post-war period and gained its current moniker of the Giro al Sas at this point – a name roughly meaning the Sas Circuit, which derived from the race's looped course on the city's main streets which were known as the Sas. The running competition was placed on hiatus from 1940–44 due to World War II. The Giro al Sas returned to the streets in November 1945, just months after the Italy's surrender to the Allied Forces.[2]

After the wars, the race entered a new, uninterrupted era (with the exception of 1991 and 1996) and gradually became international in nature with elite athlete competition. Alongside other Italian races, such as the Giro di Castelbuono, it is among the oldest road running competitions which continue to the present day. The current race director is Gianni Demadonna, a former athlete and athletics manager who won the race three times in his running career.[3] Among the prominent competitors of the race's history is Stefano Baldini, the 2004 Olympic marathon champion, who competed in 18 editions and won on three occasions.[4] He set the 2010 race as his final outing of his successful career, although an injury forced him to miss of the competition.[5] Other significant winners include Franjo Mihalić, Francesco Panetta, Paul Tergat, and Kenenisa Bekele.[6]

Course and records edit

 
An overview of the city and the streets where the race takes place

The course of the race has varied through its history: it was a 15 km race in the 1960s, before existing as a 12 km circuit from 1970 to the mid-1990s. From 1997 to 2004, the race typically featured ten laps spanning 10.9 km. It has been a 10 km race from 2005 to present.[7] The current course of ten 1 km laps features many twists and bends as it traces a circular loop around the central city streets,[8] making fast times difficult to achieve in the Trento race.[9]

Paul Kimaiyo Kimugul of Kenya holds the fastest time for the 10 km distance via his winning run of 28:00 minutes from 2005. Over the 10.9 km circuit, another Kenyan – Paul Kosgei Malakwen – has the course record with 30:46 minutes.[7] Although it has almost exclusively been a men's race only for its entire history, a women's competition was added to the programme for the 2005 edition – this 10 km race was won in 33:15 minutes by Bruna Genovese, an Italian professional marathon runner.[9]

Past winners edit

Little information about the race (or its winners) in its early history is available and the modern competition regards its post-war rebirth in 1945 as the start of its modern, continuous lineage.[7]

 
Italy's Stefano Baldini is a three-time winner of the race.
 
Former world record holder Paul Tergat was victorious at the 1997 race.
 
Kenenisa Bekele, a multiple Olympic champion on the track, won in 2001.
 
A one-off women's race in 2005 was won by Bruna Genovese.

Key:   12 km race   10.9 km race   10 km race

Year Men's winner Time (m:s)
1945   Elvio Schiavini (ITA) ?
1946   Giovanni Nocco (ITA) ?
1947   Giovanni Nocco (ITA) ?
1948   ? Roetzer (AUT) ?
1949   Giuseppe Beviacqua (ITA) ?
1950   Giovanni Nocco (ITA) ?
1951   ? Ceraj (YUG) ?
1952   ? Page (SUI) ?
1953   Walter Konrad (GER) ?
1954   D Stritof (YUG) ?
1955   Walter Konrad (GER) ?
1956   Giacomo Peppicelli (ITA) ?
1957   Franjo Mihalić (YUG) ?
1958   Silvio de Florentis (ITA) ?
1959   Franjo Mihalić (YUG) ?
1960   Franjo Mihalić (YUG) ?
1961   Antonio Ambu (ITA) ?
1962   Franco Antonelli (ITA) ?
1963   Nedjalko Farcic (YUG) 48:0 (15 km)
1964   Antonio Ambu (ITA) ?
1965   Antonio Ambu (ITA) ?
1966   Antonio Ambu (ITA) ?
1967   Antonio Ambu (ITA) ?
1968   Antonio Ambu (ITA) ?
1969   Antonio Ambu (ITA) ?
1970   Lutz Philipp (GER) 35:56
1971   Giuseppe Ardizzone (ITA) 36:36.2
1972   Werner Dössegger (SUI) 36:39.3
1973   Werner Dössegger (SUI) ?
1974   Luigi Lauro (ITA) ?
1975   Primo Gretter (ITA) 37:52.2
1976   Primo Gretter (ITA) 37:47
1977   Luigi Zarcone (ITA) ?
1978   Domingo Tibaduiza (COL) 36:47.9
1979   Luigi Zarcone (ITA) ?
1980   Gianni Demadonna (ITA) 36:45.2
1981   Venanzio Ortis (ITA) 36:50.1
1982   Robert McDonald (AUS) 36:42.9
1983   Gianni Demadonna (ITA) 36:18.4
1984   Mike McLeod (ENG) 37:13.3
1985   Gianni Demadonna (ITA) 37:00.1
1986   Andrew Masai (KEN) 36:55.3
1987   Francesco Panetta (ITA) 35:57.8
1988   Francesco Panetta (ITA) 35:43.7
1989   Said Ermili (MAR) 36:32.7
1990   Abderrahim Zitouna (MAR) 28:01.4
1991 Not held
1992   Eliud Barngetuny (KEN) 35:04
1993   Thierry Pantel (FRA) 36:04
1994   Jonah Koech Kimurgor (KEN) 35:53.2
1995   Andrew Masai (KEN) 35:58.5
1996 Not held
1997   Paul Tergat (KEN) 31:15
1998   Giuliano Battocletti (ITA) ?
1999   John Cheruiyot Korir (KEN) 31:05
2000   Paul Kosgei Malakwen (KEN) 30:46
2001   Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) 30:49
2002   Stefano Baldini (ITA) 30:50.6
2003   Martin Sulle (TAN) 28:34
2004   Stefano Baldini (ITA) 31:21.1
2005   Paul Kimaiyo Kimugul (KEN) 28:00
2006   Stefano Baldini (ITA) 28:43
2007   Moses Mosop (KEN) 29:59 (10.5 km)
2008   Moses Mosop (KEN) 28:29
2009   Edwin Soi (KEN) 29:25
2010   Edwin Soi (KEN) 28:45.9
2011   Edwin Soi (KEN) 29:16
2012   Edwin Soi (KEN) 28:43
2013   Edwin Soi (KEN) 29:01
2014   Muktar Edris (ETH) 28:52
2015   Muktar Edris (ETH) 28:46
2016   Abdallah Mande (UGA) 28:47
2017   Muktar Edris (ETH) 28:54
2018   Jacob Kiplimo (UGA) 28:17
2019   Telahun Bekele (ETH) 28:09
2021   Muktar Edris (ETH) 28:13

Statistics edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Albo d’oro dal 1962 al 2009 Archived 2010-12-07 at the Wayback Machine. Giro al Trentino. Retrieved on 2010-11-03.
  2. ^ a b Un balzo nel passato Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian). Giro al Sas. Retrieved on 2010-11-03.
  3. ^ Olympic champion Baldini accelerates comfortably to Trento victory. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-11-03.
  4. ^ Baldini says goodbye at the Giro al Sas. European Athletics (2010-10-06). Retrieved on 2010-11-05.
  5. ^ Soi defends title at Giro Al Sas. IAAF (2010-10-10). Retrieved on 2010-11-05.
  6. ^ Albo d'Oro Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine. Giro al Sas. Retrieved on 2010-11-05.
  7. ^ a b c Malcolm Heyworth et al (2010-10-12). Giro al Sas 10 km. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2010-11-05.
  8. ^ Mappa Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine. Giro al Sas. Retrieved on 2010-11-05.
  9. ^ a b Zorzi, Alberto (2005-10-10). Kimugul defeats Baldini. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-11-05.
List of winners

External links edit

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