A Torino City Marathon 2024 big names

The Torino City Marathon 2024

is making headway.

To the sound of record-breaking numbers. This is how the Torino City Marathon 2024, which will be run in the Piedmontese capital next Sunday, December 1, is making its way. There will be about 10.000 runners will be at the start of the event, which will take place over three distances: the marathon (42.195 km), the half marathon (21.097 km) and the stracittadina, which will include a distance of about 5 km and will be in support of cancer treatment and research taking place at’Istituto di Candiolo – IRCCS.

 
Big numbers, indeed, which, for the moment, pits 3,500 registered participants for Torino City Marathon, 2,500 for Torino City Half Marathon. The’turnout for the Torino City Run continues to grow, with registration open until the morning of the race.
 
In the marathon, the eve predictions are colored blue in both the men’s and women’s fields. On the one hand, Pasquale Selvarolo (G.S. Fiamme Azzurre), class of 1999, who has worn the national team jersey more than once and won tricolor titles as a junior and then as a promise on the 10 km and half marathon. The Apulian athlete comes to Turin with a personal best on the half of 1:00’32”, set last year in Ravenna, and the desire to write the first chapter of his new sports career. For him it will be the’s debut over the distance.
On the’other side the more’experienced Catherine Bertone (Atletica Sandro Calvesi), from Aosta by birth and from Turin by adoption. For her, the Turin marathon has a special flavor: it was in this city that she ran her first marathon and Sunday’s will be her 40th; it will come, among other things, at the close of her 30th year of competitive activity. His è a career of great achievements culminated with participation in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. She has a personal best of 2:28’34”, set in Berlin in 2017, which è also holds the W45 masters world record.
 
Selvarolo will find himself rebounding strokes and pace of Jonathan Akankwasa, a Ugandan athlete who wants to prove his full worth in Turin. He has a personal best over the 42.195 km of 2:12’34” obtained in Malaga in 2023. È the winner of the Dodoma Marathon, in Tanzania, in 2023 and 2024. Also among the pretenders to the podium are Kenyan John Kioi Mungai, who made his marathon debut this year in Leiden, Netherlands, stopping the clock at 2:18’41” and Moroccan Mohammed Zouioula (Gruppo Millepiedi), who has lived in Italy for years now and chose Turin to run his first marathon. On the half he boasts a record of 1:07’57” in Cremona in 2023.
 
Bertone will have to contend with two Kenyan marathon runners: Janet Jelagat Rono, who can leverage several years of experience in the running world and arrives in Turin to revive her career. Her personal è of 2:26’03” set in Tokyo in 2014 when she arrived; 5th° woman overall; and 24-year-old Rael Cherop Boiyo, making her distance debut.
 
Also returning to the start of the Torino City Marathon is Luz Nadine De La Cruz Aguirre (G.S. Il Fiorino), third overall and first Italian last year. Eyes are also on Francesca Malnati Manfredi (Atl. Casone Noceto), who returns to marathon running after debuting in 2022 in Ravenna.