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Maria Grazia Roberti

Maria Grazia Roberti

Italian mountain runner and snowshoe runner


Maria Grazia Roberti (born 10 December 1966) is an Italian female mountain runner and snowshoe runner, who won three World Snowshoe Championships.[1]

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Biography

Maria Grazia Roberti after a brilliant career in mountain running, crowned by several medals at the world and European championships (among them stands out two individual silver), arrived at the threshold of 40 years began to practice the snowshoe running by winning three golds and a bronze at the world championships, and if this discipline became Olympic at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Sochi,[2] the Brescia champion could attend you at the age of 51.[3]

Achievements

In mountain running she has participated in 16 World Championships (from 1989 to 2010) and 10 of the European Championships (1996 to 2012), winning 26 medals of which 2 at the individual level and 24 with the national team.

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References

  1. "Maria Grazia CATHELIJNE Roberti" (in Spanish). corredores-de-montana.blogspot.it. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  2. "Why Snowshoeing Should be an Olympic Sport". snowshoemag.com. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  3. "La signora delle ciaspole che sogna l'Olimpiade" (in Italian). brescia.corriere.it. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  4. Maria Grazia Roberti was rewarded with the bronze medal but following the disqualification for doping by Elisa Desco, she was later awarded the silver medal.
  5. "Can of worms! Desco, EPO, PEDs and TNF50". wmra.ch. Retrieved 25 October 2017. Desco served a two-year ban from the IAAF for testing positive for EPO at the 2009 World Mountain Running Championships.

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