Annarita Sidoti Explained

Nationality:Italian
Sport:Athletics
Event:Race walk
Birth Place:Gioiosa Marea, Sicily, Italy
Death Place:Gioiosa Marea, Sicily Italy
Weight:42kg (93lb)
Pb:
  • 10 km: 41:46 (1994)
  • 20 km: 1:28:38 (2000)
Country: Italy

Annarita Sidoti (25 July 1969 – 21 May 2015) was an Italian race walker.

Biography

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

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.[4] [5]

International competitions

Representing
1988World Junior ChampionshipsSudbury, Canada4th5000m22:36.47
1989World Race Walking CupL'Hospitalet, Spain8th10 km44:59
1990European Indoor ChampionshipsGlasgow, United Kingdom3rd3000 m12:27.94
European ChampionshipsSplit, Yugoslavia1st10 km44:00
1991World Student GamesBuffalo, United Statesbgcolor=cc9966 3rd10 km45:10
World Race Walking CupSan Jose, United States9th10 km45:28
World ChampionshipsTokyo, Japan9th10 km44:18
1992Olympic GamesBarcelona, Spain7th10 km45:23
1993World Race Walking CupMonterrey, Mexico7th10 km46:14
World ChampionshipsStuttgart, Germany9th10 km44:13
1994European Indoor ChampionshipsParis, France1st3000 m11:54.32
European ChampionshipsHelsinki, Finland2nd10 km42:43
1995World Race Walking CupBeijing, China8th10 km43:55
World Student GamesFukuoka, Japan1st10 km43:22
World ChampionshipsGothenburg, Sweden13th10 km44:06
1996European Race Walking CupA Coruña, Spain1st10 km43:26
Olympic GamesAtlanta, United States11th10 km43:57
1997Mediterranean GamesBari, Italybgcolor=silver 2nd10 km45:35
World ChampionshipsAthens, Greece1st10,000m42:55.49
World Student GamesCatania, Italy3rd10 km44:38
1998European ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary1st10 km42:49
1999World ChampionshipsSeville, Spain—20 kmDNF
2000European Race Walking CupEisenhüttenstadt, Germany5th20 km1:28:38
Olympic GamesSydney, Australia—20 kmDNF
2001European Race Walking CupDudince, Slovakia11th20 km1:31:43
World ChampionshipsEdmonton, Canada8th20 km1:31:40
2002European ChampionshipsMunich, Germany8th20 km1:31:19

National titles

She won ten times at the Italian Athletics Championships.[6] [7]

See also

Notes

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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: PODIO INTERNAZIONALE DAL 1908 AL 2008 – DONNE . sportolimpico.it . 26 December 2012.
  2. Book: Annuario dell'Atletica 2009 . 2009 . FIDAL.
  3. Web site: Anna Rita, piccola grande donna d'oro . cabaldixit.blogspot.it . it . 26 December 2012.
  4. http://www.iaaf.org/news/iaaf-news/anna-rita-sidoti-obituary 1997 world race walking champion Sidoti dies
  5. http://www.gazzetta.it/Atletica/21-05-2015/atletica-lutto-morta-annarita-sidoti-110916643696.shtml Atletica in lutto: è morta Annarita Sidoti
  6. Web site: "CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" ITALIANE SUL PODIO TRICOLORE – 1923 2012 . sportolimpico.it . 26 December 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121224062428/http://www.sportolimpico.it/attachments/article/224/CAMPIONI%20ITALIANI_DONNE.pdf . 24 December 2012 .
  7. Web site: ITALIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS . gbrathletics.com . 26 December 2012.
  8. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/more-sports/athletics/Former-Italian-race-walking-world-champion-Sidoti-dies-at-44/articleshow/47372547.cms Italian race-walking chamption Annarita Sidoti dies at 44 (sic)
  9. https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/si/annarita-sidoti-1.html. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418012405/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/si/annarita-sidoti-1.html. dead. 2020-04-18.
  10. http://www2.raisport.rai.it/atlanta96/protag/02/043.html Annarita Sidoti

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