Finish line in Allianz Tower for 30 runners
Target in Allianz Tower
Finish line in Torre Allianz for a group of thirty runners – with and without disabilities – who participated in the Paralympic relay race organized by the Obiettivo3 Association, the Association established in 2017 by the will of Alex Zanardi, the great Paralympic champion, – and supported by the Allianz UMANA MENTE Foundation and Allianz Partners – with the aim of training and initiating people with disabilities into sports. After the reception, athletes and the Association’s main sponsors took part in the conference “Beyond the Boundaries of Disability” held in the Allianz Tower Auditorium to show that disability can’t be a limitation and celebrate the’high social value of sports.
The’meeting at the headquarters of the insurance company is part of the project “Obiettivo Tricolore – La Grande Staffetta”. Now in its fourth year, the project è was born in 2020 and involves a relay race of Paralympic athletes and disciplines each year and alternating between running, cycling, handbike, Olympic wheelchair and canoe routes.
The’event organized in the Allianz Tower Auditorium aimed to promote a reflection on sport as a tool to promote social inclusion of people with disabilities and as an opportunity for redemption. A debate that fully fits into the’commitment of the Allianz foundation corporate to support and devise social initiatives aimed at fostering a better quality of life for people with disabilities.
The meeting è was introduced by the institutional greeting of Giovanni Malagò, President of the Italian National Olympic Committee.
This was followed by speeches by Barbara Manni, Marketing and Communication Manager of Obiettivo3, and Nicola Corti, Secretary General of the Allianz UMANA MENTE Foundation, on the Auditorium stage along with runners and athletes from Obiettivo Sci, who brought their testimonies. They included triathlete Cristina Nuti, the first Italian with multiple sclerosis to complete an Ironman, the European handbike championships, Paralympic triathlete Francesco Demaio and triathlon champion Daniel Fontana. The three athletes, protagonists of the relay race that ran through Milan, spoke about the ability of sport to combat stereotypes related to disability, as well as the ability of sport to be a way of personal and social redemption.
On the occasion of the meeting, the group of new athletes who have been included in the team of Obiettivo Sci, the Paralympic alpine skiing preparation project supported by the Allianz UMANA MENTE Foundation and Obiettivo3, was presented to a group of young people with disabilities who are aiming for the ambitious goal of qualifying for the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Paralympic Games.
In particular, in the most recent years, the Allianz UMANA MENTE Foundation has promoted the characteristics and qualities of sport as a vehicle for increasing the level of social participation, initiating to this end numerous collaborations with nonprofit entities or devising projects aimed at this end.
