Luigi Zarcone | |
Nationality: | Italian |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | Middle distance running Long distance running |
Club: | G.S. Fiamme Gialle |
Birth Date: | 1950 6, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Villabate, Italy |
Death Place: | Palermo, Italy |
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Country: | Italy |
Luigi Zarcone (18 June 1950, in Villabate – 9 June 2001, in Palermo) was an Italian middle and long distance runner.
Luigi Zarcone won two medals, at senior level, at the International athletics competitions.[1] He has 32 caps in national team from 1973 to 1983.[2] He died prematurely at only 50 years old, in Palermo in 2001.[3] In his native hometown, Villabate in Sicily, is organized every year since 2003, a race named after him, the Memorial Luigi Zarcone.[4]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Time | Notes | |
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1979 | Mediterranean Games | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 5000 metres | 13:45.11 | [5] | |
bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 10000 metres | 28.39.06 |
Luigi Zarcone has won 4 times the individual national championship.[6] [7]