Elisa Desco (born 30 May 1982) is an Italian female

sky runner Skyrunning is a sport of mountain running up to or exceeding where the minimum average incline is 6% over the total distance and at least 5% has an incline of 30% or more. The climbing difficulty does not exceed II grade UIAA. Poles, crampons and ...

and

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at the

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held in

Chamonix Chamonix-Mont-Blanc ( frp, Chamôni), more commonly known as Chamonix, is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France. It was the site of the first Winter Olympics in 1924. In 2019, it had ...

, and European champion at the 2008 European Mountain Running Championships held in

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Biography

She was also

at individual senior level she won 7 medals (1 gold individual and 6 with the

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) at the 2008

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but was disqualified for doping. She is engaged to the Italian

mountain running Mountain running is a sports discipline which takes place mainly off-road in mountainous terrain, but if there is significant elevation gain on the route, surfaced roads may be used. In this it differs from fell running; also its courses are more ...

champion

Marco De Gasperi Marco De Gasperi (born 5 April 1977) is an Italian male mountain runner, sky runner and long-distance runner. Biography He won five gold medals at senior level (from 1997 to 2007) and one at junior level (1996), at the World Mountain Running Cha ...

and they live in

Bormio Bormio ( lmo, Bormi, rm, italic=yes, , german: Worms im Veltlintal) is a town and ''comune'' with a population of about 4,100 located in the Province of Sondrio, Lombardy region of the Alps in northern Italy. The centre of the upper Valtellina ...

with their two daughters named Lidia (2011) and Cecilia (2017).

Achievements

Team results

** 2005, 2013, 2014 (3)

National titles

* Italian Mountain Running Championships **

Mountain running Mountain running is a sports discipline which takes place mainly off-road in mountainous terrain, but if there is significant elevation gain on the route, surfaced roads may be used. In this it differs from fell running; also its courses are more ...

: 2008, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2019 (5) * Italian Long Distance Mountain Running Championships ** Long distance mountain running: 2013, 2014 (2)

References

External links

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FIDAL The Italian Athletics Federation (Italian: ''Federazione Italiana di Atletica Leggera'', FIDAL), is the governing body for athletics in Italy since 1906. The Italian Federation, founded on 21 October 1906, on initiative of '' La Gazzetta dello S ...

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Desco, Elisa 1982 births Living people Italian female mountain runners Italian sky runners Doping cases in athletics Skyrunning World Championships winners