Anna Carmela Incerti (born 19 January 1980 in

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) is an Italian

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who specializes in the

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. She has represented Italy in the marathon at European,

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and

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-level. She won the bronze in the event at the 2010 European Championships, later upgraded to silver and then to gold.

Biography

She was the 2003 winner of the

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, which made her the Italian marathon champion for that year.Civai, Franco (26 December 2008)
Firenze Marathon

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. Retrieved 30 November 2009. She also won the bronze medal in

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at the

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. Incerti began focusing on longer distances and set a personal best in the

at the

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, running a time of 2:32:53 for ninth place. She finished 17th over the distance at the

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. She represented Italy at the

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and came fourteenth in the marathon with a personal best run of 2:30:55 hours. Later that year, she won the

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in a new personal best time of 2:27:42 hours and finished the season with an Italian record run of 32:1 minutes for the 10K at the San Silvestre Barcelona. Incerti won the

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in March 2009 and then secured the

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title at the

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in Pescara. At the

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she won the

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in the marathon race, but was subsequently upgraded to the

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(following the disqualification of race winner Živilė Balčiūnaitė for a doping offence), then to the gold medal (following the disqualification of runner-up

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). She ran at the 2011

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and improved her best time to 2:27:33, coming in fourth place. She also improved her half marathon best soon after, defeating

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to defend at the Roma-Ostia with a time of 1:09:06 – which was also a new course record. After some high altitude training in

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in Morocco she ran at the

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half marathon, but she felt her second-place finish behind

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was not a good performance. She decided to enter the

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and she ran a significant personal best of 2:25:32 hours. She was runner-up to

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at the Stramilano in 2012 and was fifth in a competitive Roma-Ostia field. She is married to fellow marathon runner Stefano Scaini.

Achievements

National titles

She won six national championships. *

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** 10,000 metres: 2009 (1) ** 10 km road: 2015 (1) ** Half marathon: 2007, 2008, 2019 (3) ** Marathon: 2003 (1)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Incerti, Anna 1980 births Living people Italian female long-distance runners Italian female marathon runners Sportspeople from Palermo Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Italy Athletics competitors of Fiamme Azzurre European Athletics Championships medalists Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy Athletes (track and field) at the 2009 Mediterranean Games Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) World Athletics Championships athletes for Italy Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics Universiade bronze medalists for Italy Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade

Biography

Achievements

National titles

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