Trieste reappeared to elite walk.
The Gruppo Sportivo San Giacomo, Trieste will host in the parlor of the city, the Piazza Unità d'Italia, Sunday, October 30, 2016 a road walk event open to all categories and athletes of the border countries of Slovenia, Croatia and Carinthia (Alpe Adria).
The race is valid as the 5th leg of the trophy "Racewalking Five Races" will be an opportunity to honor the memory of the late President of Gruppo Sportivo San Giacomo, Rodolfo Crasso, athlete of the years after the Second World War who in 1945 had founded the Gruppo Sportivo and of which he had been president for 50 years without interruption.
The figure of Rodolfo Crasso, had been remembered for our Italians readers, in our news of January 4, 2009.
He gathered young people from the road between the districts of Valmaura where he lived, and St. James (home of the Sports Club).
He took them in the track and taught them to walk, to suffer and to grit their teeth: in other words, to become men.
In the funeral service, officiated in the presence of the Mayor of Trieste Roberto Dipiazza and the Councillor for Sports Bandelli, and in the chronicle of the city of Trieste, the day of his funeral appeared two pages with a title in nine columns: "It disappeared the Mayor of St James "such was his popularity in the thick city ward.
Who writes today reminds him of having only the initial teachings and love of the specialty since 1961 when fourteen was introduced to race walk, a speciality of athletics, if you truly love, it is extremely difficult to break away.
At this year's race we have confirmed their presence many athletes of Lombardy, among which stand out the names of athletes who partecipated to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Matteo Giupponi and Anna Eleonora Giorgi.