Annarita Sidoti
Annarita Sidoti (25 July 1969[nb] – 21 May 2015) was an Italian race walker.
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| Nationality | Italian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 July 1969[nb] Gioiosa Marea, Sicily, Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 21 May 2015 (aged 45) Gioiosa Marea, Sicily Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.50 m (4 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 42 kg (93 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Race walk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Annarita Sidoti was born in Gioiosa Marea. She won eleven medals at senior level in international competition.[1] She participated at three editions of the Summer Olympics (1992, 1996, 2000), and earned 47 caps in fifteen years in the national team from 1987 to 2002.[2]
She appeared in the film Le complici (1998) by director Emanuela Piovano, in which she played a prostitute.[3]
Death
She died in May 2015 in Gioiosa Marea, Italy, of metastatic breast cancer, which had spread to her liver and brain. She was 45 years old.[nb][4][5]
International competitions
National titles
She won ten times at the Italian Athletics Championships.[6][7]
- 1 win in the 5 km walk (1995)
- 1 win in the 10 km walk (1991)
- 4 wins in the 20 km walk (1992, 1995, 2000, 2002)
- 4 wins in the 3000 metres walk indoor (1991, 1994, 2001, 2002)
See also
Notes
nb Sources give her age at death as 44, but this is contradicted by widespread record of her year of birth as 1969 throughout the entirely of her career (by international and national athletics federations and Olympic scholars) and before publication of her death.[8][9][10]
References
- "PODIO INTERNAZIONALE DAL 1908 AL 2008 – DONNE" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
- Annuario dell'Atletica 2009. FIDAL. 2009.
- "Anna Rita, piccola grande donna d'oro" (in Italian). cabaldixit.blogspot.it. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
- 1997 world race walking champion Sidoti dies, IAAF.org, 22 May 2015; retrieved 28 June 2015.
- Atletica in lutto: è morta Annarita Sidoti. La Gazzetta Dello Sport, 21 May 2015; retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ""CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" ITALIANE SUL PODIO TRICOLORE – 1923 2012" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
- "ITALIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
- Italian race-walking chamption Annarita Sidoti dies at 44 (sic), timesofindia.indiatimes.com; accessed 21 May 2015.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Annarita Sidoti". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
- Annarita Sidoti Archived 2015-06-23 at the Wayback Machine, raisport.rai.it; retrieved 28 June 2015.
External links
- Annarita Sidoti at World Athletics
- Annarita Sidoti at the Italian Athletics Federation (in Italian)
- Annarita Sidoti at Olympedia
- Annarita Sidoti at RAI web site
- Annarita Sidoti at La marcia nel mondo (in Italian)
