Stefano La Rosa
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Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Grosseto, Italy | 28 September 1985||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Long-distance running Marathon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | C.S. Carabinieri | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Stefano La Rosa (born 28 September 1985 in Grosseto) is an Italian long distance runner. He is a five-time Italian champion (twice over 10,000 metres and three times over 5000 metres).
Biography
[edit]Of Sicilian descent, as a junior athlete, he came 52nd at the 2003 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. He came 16th over 5000 metres at the 2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics, but managed a 1500 metres/5000 m double at the Italian junior championships. He won a team silver medal in the under-23 section of the 2006 European Cross Country Championships, courtesy of his tenth-place finish. He improved to fifth place in this category at the 2007 European race. Senior success came two years later in the form of a 5000 m silver medal at the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara and a team bronze medal at the 2009 European Cross Country Championships alongside Daniele Meucci.[1]
In his first major senior track final, he came tenth over 5000 m at the 2010 European Athletics Championships. He managed the same position in the 3000 m at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships and secured the bronze medal over 5000 m at the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen.[1] He was the first Italian finisher at the 2011 BOClassic 10K race, taking sixth place overall.[2]
Achievements
[edit]Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing Italy | |||||
2004 | World Junior Championships | Grosseto, Italy | 16th | 5000 m | 14:20.51 |
2007 | European U23 Championships | Debrecen, Hungary | 6th | 1500m | 3:46.37 |
10th | 5000m | 13:59.35 | |||
2009 | Mediterranean Games | Pescara, Italy | 2nd | 5000 m | 14:04.44 |
2010 | European Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 10th | 5000 m | 13:46.58 |
2011 | European Indoor Championships | Paris, France | 10th | 3000 m | 8:04.12 |
Universiade | Shenzhen, China | 3rd | 5000 m | 14:02.95 | |
2012 | European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 11th | 5000 m | 13:41.99 |
2013 | Mediterranean Games | Mersin, Turkey | – | 5000 m | DNF |
Universiade | Kazan, Russia | 4th | 5000 m | 13:40.42 | |
2014 | European Championships | Zürich, Switzerland | 8th | 10,000 m | 28:49.99 |
2016 | European Championships | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 13th | Half marathon | 1:04:15 |
National titles
[edit]He has won 9 times the individual national championship.[3]
- 5 wins in the 5000 metres (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
- 3 wins in the 10,000 metres (2008, 2009, 2018)
- 1 win in the Half marathon (2012)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Stefano La Rosa. FIDAL. Retrieved on 2012-01-02.
- ^ Sampaolo, Diego (2012-01-01). Soi and Cheruiyot take thrillers in Bolzano. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-01-02.
- ^ ""CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" ITALIANI SUL PODIO TRICOLORE – 1906 2012" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
External links
[edit]- Stefano La Rosa at World Athletics
- Stefano La Rosa at the Italian Athletics Federation (in Italian)
- Stefano La Rosa at ARRS
- Stefano La Rosa at Olympedia
- Stefano La Rosa at the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)
- 1985 births
- Living people
- Athletics competitors of Centro Sportivo Carabinieri
- Italian male cross country runners
- Italian male long-distance runners
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Sportspeople from Grosseto
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy
- Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Italy
- Competitors at the 2013 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade
- Italian Athletics Championships winners
- 21st-century Italian sportsmen