Massimo Stano
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National team | Italy (7 caps) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Grumo Appula, Italy | 27 February 1992|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Racewalking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | G.S. Fiamme Oro | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 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]
, working and training in the barracks of theNational records[]
National titles[]
- Italian Athletics Championships
- 10 km walk: 2018
- 20 km walk: 2015, 2018[5]
Personal life[]
He is married to Fatima and they have a daughter; he is a Muslim.[6]
See also[]
- Italian records in athletics
- Italian all-time lists - 20 km walk
- Italy at the IAAF World Race Walking Cup
- Italy at the European Race Walking Cup
- Italy at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics
References[]
- ^ "Men's 20 kilometres walk heats results" (PDF). IAAF. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
- ^ "Athletics STANO Massimo - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". .. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
- ^ Buongiovanni, Andrea (5 August 2021). "Massimo Stano: marciatore per passione, musulmano per amore". Gazzetta.it (in Italian).
- ^ "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
- ^ "Marcia: Stano e Trapletti campioni della 20km" (in Italian). fidal.it. 4 March 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
- ^ 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.
External links[]
- Massimo Stano at World Athletics
- Massimo Stano at European Athletic Association (archived)
- Massimo Stano at Italian Athletics Federation (in Italian)
- Massimo Stano at Olympedia
- Italian male racewalkers
- Living people
- 1992 births
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Italy
- Athletics competitors of Fiamme Oro
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Olympic gold medalists for Italy
- Italian Muslims
- Olympic athletes of Italy