Annarita Sidoti
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Nationality | Italian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 25 July 1969[nb] Gioiosa Marea, Sicily, Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 21 May 2015 Gioiosa Marea, Sicily Italy | (aged 45)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.50 m (4 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 42 kg (93 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Race walk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Annarita Sidoti (25 July 1969[nb] – 21 May 2015) was an Italian race walker.
Biography
[edit]Annarita Sidoti was born in Gioiosa Marea. She won eleven medals at senior level in international competition.[1] She participated at three editions of the Summer Olympics (1992, 1996, 2000), and earned 47 caps in fifteen years in the national team from 1987 to 2002.[2]
She appeared in the film Le complici (1998) by director Emanuela Piovano, in which she played a prostitute.[3]
Death
[edit]She died in May 2015 in Gioiosa Marea, Italy, of metastatic breast cancer, which had spread to her liver and brain. She was 45 years old.[nb][4][5]
International competitions
[edit]National titles
[edit]She won ten times at the Italian Athletics Championships.[6][7]
- 1 win in the 5 km walk (1995)
- 1 win in the 10 km walk (1991)
- 4 wins in the 20 km walk (1992, 1995, 2000, 2002)
- 4 wins in the 3000 metres walk indoor (1991, 1994, 2001, 2002)
See also
[edit]- Italy at the European Race Walking Cup - Multiple medalists
- Italian all-time lists – 20 km walk
- FIDAL Hall of Fame
Notes
[edit]nb Sources give her age at death as 44, but this is contradicted by widespread record of her year of birth as 1969 throughout the entirely of her career (by international and national athletics federations and Olympic scholars) and before publication of her death.[8][9][10]
References
[edit]- ^ "PODIO INTERNAZIONALE DAL 1908 AL 2008 – DONNE" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
- ^ Annuario dell'Atletica 2009. FIDAL. 2009.
- ^ "Anna Rita, piccola grande donna d'oro" (in Italian). cabaldixit.blogspot.it. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
- ^ 1997 world race walking champion Sidoti dies, IAAF.org, 22 May 2015; retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ^ Atletica in lutto: è morta Annarita Sidoti. La Gazzetta Dello Sport, 21 May 2015; retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ^ ""CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" ITALIANE SUL PODIO TRICOLORE – 1923 2012" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
- ^ "ITALIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
- ^ Italian race-walking chamption Annarita Sidoti dies at 44 (sic), timesofindia.indiatimes.com; accessed 21 May 2015.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Annarita Sidoti". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
- ^ Annarita Sidoti Archived 2015-06-23 at the Wayback Machine, raisport.rai.it; retrieved 28 June 2015.
External links
[edit]- Annarita Sidoti at World Athletics
- Annarita Sidoti at the Italian Athletics Federation (in Italian)
- Annarita Sidoti at Olympedia
- Annarita Sidoti at RAI web site
- Annarita Sidoti at La marcia nel mondo (in Italian)
- 1969 births
- 2015 deaths
- Sportspeople from the Metropolitan City of Messina
- Italian female racewalkers
- Olympic athletes for Italy
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Italy
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Deaths from cancer in Sicily
- Deaths from breast cancer in Italy
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy
- Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Italy
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Italy
- World Athletics Championships winners
- Medalists at the 1991 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 1995 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 1997 Summer Universiade
- Italian Athletics Championships winners
- 20th-century Italian sportswomen