Massimo Stano

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Massimo Stano
Personal information
Nickname(s)Jetsy
National teamItaly (7 caps)
Born (1992-02-27) 27 February 1992 (age 29)
Grumo Appula, Italy
Sport
CountryItaly Italy
SportAthletics
Event(s)Racewalking
ClubG.S. Fiamme Oro
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
  • 20 km walk: 1:17:45 (2019)
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
World Race Walking Cup 0 1 1
European U23 Championships 0 1 0
2020 Tokyo Olympics 1 0 0
Total 1 2 1
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 20 km walk
World Race Walking Cup
Silver medal – second place 2018 Taicang 20 km team
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Taicang 20 km
European Race Walking Team Championships
Silver medal – second place 2021 Poděbrady 20 km walk (team)

Massimo Stano (born 27 February 1992) is a male Italian racewalker. He competed in the 20 kilometres walk event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China, finishing in the 19th position,[1] and the same event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan, finishing in first place.[2]

Career[]

Born in Grumo Appula, he grew up in Palo del Colle. He started with athletics at 11 years-old with the Fiamma Olimpia Palo, middledistance running mainly, then starting at 14 years-old to practise racewalking with his coach Giovanni Zaccheo. His club becomes for 4 years the Atletica Aden Exprivia Molfetta, the town where he trained. In 2011, he became a policeman as member of the Fiamme Oro. His first big athletics result comes from the 2013 European Athletics U23 Championships in Tampere where he finished initially fourth, but where he won first the bronze medal, then the silver after the doping disqualification of 2 Russians. To improve his results, he left Palo for Sesto San Giovanni taking a new coach, Alessandro Gandellini.

With too many injuries, he finally decided to change again of location and went to  [fr], working and training in the barracks of the Fiamme Gialle. His new coach becomes Patrizio Percesepe. Very quickly, he started having better results: he won the national championships with a personal best, he finished third at the 2018 IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships in Taicang, China and 4th at the European Championships in Berlin, finishing at only 1 second from the podium. In June 2019, he established the new national record of 1:17:45, but then, he finished only 14th at the 2019 World Championships in Doha. 2020 was also a difficult year with more injuries (periostitis) and with Covid pandemic he started again walking at the European Cup in Poděbrady on 16 May 2021 where he finished 8th.[3]

National records[]

  • 20 km walk: 1:17:45 (Spain A Coruña, 8 June 2019) - Current holder.[4]

National titles[]

Personal life[]

He is married to Fatima and they have a daughter; he is a Muslim.[6]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Men's 20 kilometres walk heats results" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
  2. ^ "Athletics STANO Massimo - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". .. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  3. ^ Buongiovanni, Andrea (5 August 2021). "Massimo Stano: marciatore per passione, musulmano per amore". Gazzetta.it (in Italian).
  4. ^ "Stano primatista italiano dei 20 km di marcia" (in Italian). fidal.it. 12 June 2019. Retrieved 15 June 2019. Annullati tutti risultati conseguiti da Alex Schwazer a far data dal 18 marzo 2012. L’1h17:45 ottenuto dall'azzurro delle Fiamme Oro sabato scorso a La Coruna è record nazionale assoluto
  5. ^ "Marcia: Stano e Trapletti campioni della 20km" (in Italian). fidal.it. 4 March 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  6. ^ Casalsoli, Niccolò (5 August 2021). "Massimo Stano oro alle Olimpiadi. Il marciatore convertito all'Islam per amore". Quotidiano Nazionale (in Italian). Retrieved 5 August 2021.

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