Athletics: Campaccio scored two goals with Tuemay and Tesfay in Ethiopia

A brace from Ethiopia in the 63rd edition of Campaccio, but also good evidence from the Azzurri. The 2020 Cross season opens with exciting challenges, won by Mogos Tuemay for men and Fotyen Tesfay among women. In an Italian key, the European bronze medalist Yeman Crippa always remains in the fight for the podium that eludes him in the sprint, and is fourth at the finish, while the continental champion under 20 Nadia Battocletti closes sixth, after a race conducted mostly in the leading group . Both confirm the same placement last year in this great cross-country classic, the fourth stage of the World Athletics specialty circuit.
On a beautiful sunny day, the 22-year-old Ethiopian Mogos Tuemay takes off at the end of the penultimate of the five laps and imposes himself in 29:01 on the 10 kilometers ahead of his compatriot Lamecha Girma (29:11), world vice-champion of the 3000 hedges. Then the Kenyan Robert Keter (29:13), in the duel for the third position, manages to get the better only in the final meters on Crippa (29:18). Applause for Marouan Razine too: the Italian champion of the 5000 meters, sixth in 29:36, takes the satisfaction of overcoming the Swedish European gold Robel Fsiha (29:37). In the top ten also the policeman Yohanes Chiappinelli.
To the female success of 21-year-old Fotyen Tesfay, who takes the lead in the last lap and places the decisive sprint in 19:27 on the 6 km to surprise the Kenyan Margaret Chelimo Kipkemboi, world silver of 5000 meters and winner in the recent San Silvestro BOclassic in Bolzano, second with the same time trial (19:27). Kenya is still on the podium with Gloriah Kite, third in 19:29 against the Ethiopian Alemitu Tariku (19:37) and the Kenyan Eva Cherono (19:45). The best of the blue ones is the Battocletti, sixth.