Meeting internazionale Sicily World (ITA)

Provisional Program / Main events:

• Men: 100m, 200m, 300m, 400m, 800m, 3000m, High Jump, Long Jump
• Women: 100m, 200m, 400m, 1500m, Long Jump

Youth Categories :

• Men:
  • U16 : 80m
• Women:
  • U16 : 80m

Provisional Timetable

Start List and live results: click on the image below :

3 new meeting records (+ 1 new performance)

Weather conditions: cloudy with 23° - wind 15km/m

• Long Jump M : 7.76 (W+0.9) [1086 pts], Antonino TRIO (ITA), 1993 -> WA profile
• Long Jump W:  6.26 (w+0.3) [1055 pts], Arianna  BATTISTELLA (ITA), 2002  (U23) -> WA profile
• 800m M: 1:53.54 (927 pts), Cristian CHETCUTI (MLT), 1994 -> WA profile
• 3000m M (new competition introduced from 2023): 8:52.32 [771 pts], Marco COPPOLA (ITA)  (U18) -> WA profile

Stats:

• Number of Athletes: 128
• Number of Foreign Athletes: 15 (12.5%)
• Number of Eap Delegations: 4

2023 Results in PDF format:

Start List and live results: click on the image below :

• Podium:
  • Prizes for the 3 best of each event.
• New EAP Record:
  • 400€

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Archives 2019:

28 April 2019

Goal of the meet: promote athletics in Sicily. To promote and strenghten the contact with the neighboring countries.

History

The Athletics section of the C.U.S. Catania was born in the late fifties. The men's team was led for a short time by Prof. Bruno Cacchi who then entrusted it to prof. Santo Barbagallo and Vicenzo Abbatelli; later other technicians collaborated including Franco Bandieramonte, Rosario Guerrera, Pippo Rossi, Roberto Nicolosi.

Today it is led by Nuccio Leonardi, prof.ssa Rosetta Milazzo and prof. Roccaforte Domenico. The women's team was born around the sixties. It was led for a few years by prof. Santo Caponnetto and then by Prof. Maria D’amico Abbatelli, assisted by her husband. Subsequently, the professors Vito Riolo Sabina Murabito and Antonio Belluomo collaborated.

In the competitive year '94 -'95 she finished in tenth place at the Livorno Corporate Championships; won two championships in the specialty championships in Rieti in the triple jump with Luisa Celesia, Salvina La Porta, Giusy Malerba and Dora Castiglione in the long jump with Celesta, La Porta, Malerba and Brigida Napoli, she obtained the ninth place in the Italian Cup in Cesena, the eleventh place at the Italian junior corporate championships; he also won the C.d.S. regional cross-country juniores and cadets and senior vice-champion placed fourth at the Italian junior club championships in Ferrara.

The team also saw Luisa Celesia (second place in the triple jump at the final stage of the race), and Eleonora Caruso (Italian champion in the 5 km walk) who, summoned in the Juniores National Team, placed eighth (best Italian ) to the "Eight Nations" of Fourgeres - Rennes in France; Nicoletta Albini third at the promises International meeting, engaged in the blue jersey in the 4 × 400 mt relay, and Maria Vaneria called up in the junior national team, was fourth in the Individual Junior Championships of Nembro and Salvina La Porta third in the triple jump, always in the same manifestation.

At the Absolute _Individual Championships the Cusi-Catania team obtained two bronzes with Fiorella Ferrari in the 400hs and in the 4 × 400m relay with Ferrari, Francesca Mazzullo, Francesca Liga and Nicoletta Albini.

To the results obtained by the absolute team we must add those of the cadet team that at the National Criterium of Riccione was the real protagonist with Valentina Milazzo (second in the race walk), Simona La Pera (fifth in the javelin with 38.18 meters), Elisa Sciuto (fifth in the 300 meters hs in 46 "5 and Letizia Pugliesi (fourth in 600 meters in 1'40" 36).

In the competitive year '95 -'96, the team achieved brilliant results both in the regional and national fields, it was classified in 2nd place at the Absolute Italian Indoor Society Championship (Torino 24-26 / 02/96), at 4th ° place in the Absolute Italian Championship of Final Society A (Milan 12/06/96), in 1st place in the IV edition of the Italian Cup (Rieti 28-29 / 09/96), in 1st place both in the Championship of Society of absolute specialty group jumps (long and triple) both in the final classification for the group of specialties jumps and again in 3rd place for the group of specialties jumps.

Some athletes have been called several times to the National rallies of Formia and Tirrenia and have worn the blue U23 jersey.

Maria Moroni participated in the Five Nations Indoor Trophy held in Genoa (11/02/97) and in the Universiade '97 (Catania 29/08/97), Maria Vaneria in the javelin took part in the International meeting of Italy-France throws (Nice 23/03/97), Margherita Nicolussi in 60m Hurdles at the International meeting Italy-France under 23 8 Livien 02/03/97), Giorgia Barbatella in the puck and Anita Pistone in speed were part of the Under 23 team at the Turku European Championships. Anita Pistone was the fourth relay runner (4 × 100 meters) of the Italian team at the 1997 Universiade.

In the last three years the women's team has always centered the National Serie B Final and the men's in the last two years.

New talents and promising young people are appearing from our nursery and increasingly tread the national stages. Our tip is the young Iuvara Lia, a sprinter, able to be present at the last World Championships held in Marackesch (Morocco), at various rallies of the Italian national team and entered in the "Talent Project" which gathers the best young Italians who will defend the colors of the our Nation to Upcoming International Commitments.