Almost six years it took to get that medal that doping had taken from the field.

Yesterday in the stage of the Teatro Piccolo Regio in Turin, at the presence of her husband Daniele and sons Elena and Simone, Elisa Rigaudo received finally the third important bronze of her career after that of the European Championships in Gothenburg 2016, the most prestigious of the Olympic Games Beijing in 2008, arrived the expected longer bronze of Daegu 2011.

She had come fourth on the streets of Daegu Elisa Rigaudo (1:30:44) on Aug. 31, 2011 behind Olga Kaniskina (RUS - 1:29:42), behind Liu Hong (CHN - 1:30: 00), at that time coach-mate under the guide of Sandro Damilano, and another Russian Anisya Kirdyapkina (1:30:13). The result was not changed until March 23, 2016 when the CAS in Lausanne has deleted, among others, all the results of Kaniskina from 15.8.2009 to 15.10.2012.

The dream had come true.

As was the case for many other athletes in the same rewriting conditions of the rankings was given by the right echo of media the award ceremony of medals, and so after the last Saturday in Ancona Antonella Palmisano and Eleonora Giorgi for Europeans U23, yesterday Elisa Rigaudo was rewarded by the CONI president Giovanni Malago and the President of FIDAL Alfio Giomi.