Stefano Chiesa Explained
Stefano Chiesa (born 25 May 1996) is an Italian athlete who specialises in race walking.[1]
From Verbania, he had achieved the Olympic qualifying standard for the 50 km race walk in October 2019 in the Tilburg 50 km, with a time of 3:48:25. In November 2019 however, he injured a metatarsal in a national training camp in Tuscany.[2] The time he recorded was described as remarkable as it was 23 minutes faster than his previous best time of 4:11:07.[3] Chiesa was named in the Italian squad for the World Race Walking Championships in 2022 held in Muscat.[4]
Notes and References
- Web site: Stefano CHIESA | Profile. worldathletics.org.
- Web site: TOMOLA . ARIANNA . 2020-04-03 . Il marciatore di Verbania Stefano Chiesa: "A Tokyo più forte dopo l'infortunio, il rinvio dei Giochi mi può aiutare" . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20210611075044/https://www.lastampa.it/topnews/edizioni-locali/verbano-cusio-ossola/2020/04/03/news/il-marciatore-di-verbania-stefano-chiesa-a-tokyo-piu-forte-dopo-l-infortunio-il-rinvio-dei-giochi-mi-puo-aiutare-1.38670748/amp/ . 2021-06-11 . www.lastampa.it.
- Web site: Tilburg: Stefano Chiesa migliora 23 minuti sui 50km: è minimo per Tokyo!. October 7, 2019.
- Web site: 2022-02-03 . Italy names a squad of 22 athletes to compete in World Race Walking Team Championships in Muscat . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20220722160355/https://athleticshour.com/italy-names-a-squad-of-22-athletes-to-compete-in-world-race-walking-team-championships-in-muscat/ . 2022-07-22 . athleticshour.com.
