Bronze Aouani at the Athletics World Cup
(Gaia Piccardi, sent to Tokyo) The engineer builds his very personal bridge between past and future. With a courageous race, always in the head positions and managing the effort in the final stages and in the last terrible lap of the track inside the Olympic stadium, the noble arrival of the longest race of the World Cup, the blue Iliass Aouani conquers a beautiful bronze in the marathon behind the Tanzanian Alphonce Simbu and the German Amanal Petros, accredited by the same time (2h09’48 “) to the photofinish) They sprinkle for gold after 42,195 meters of torment and ecstasy in Japanese humidity. (2h10’15 “).
There is no team game, each for itself and the gods of athletics for everyone, in the beautiful overall result in a proof deserted by the champions of the specialty to go and get the dollar of the great international marathons (it seems incredible but next Sunday there is the Berlin marathon, where the favorite will be the Kenyan Sawe, and wheel, 12 October and 2nd November, Chicago and New York will follow; London), Aouani is good at exploiting the emptiness emptiness leaving a proof of character on the streets of Tokyo, supported by an excellent form. “I trained to give the best version of myself -he said on the eve -, it was not an always linear preparation due to a slight injury to the left femoral biceps”. Then he had imagined the race: «This world championship will be different from the classic marathons with hares: factors such as tactics and climate count a lot but the humidity is there for everyone, and it will weigh. It will be important to remain concentrated until km 35, when fatigue is presented. But I don’t expect high rhythms ». And so it was.
European champion in charge of marathon, in Lovanio, in Belgium on 13 April by printing on the time trial 2h09’05 “, second Italian of all time with 2h06’06”, the 29 year old of the blue flame trained in Ferrara by Massimo Magnani keeps the flags high in a test in which Italy did not go up on the podium from the bronze by Stefano Baldini in Paris in 2003. A result, in its own way. Iliass lived in Morocco only two years, then reached his father and established himself in Milan, in the area of Ponte Lambro, discovering the race thanks to the student competitions without ever neglecting the study: after the scientific high school, he formed in the USA between Texas and Syracuse, obtaining the three -year degree in civil engineering and the master’s in structural engineering. He likes to read, train and write small pages history of our athletics, reported in the medals area in the marathon that we have never won worldwide. Tokyo, conquered with a black scarf in the head and with the superfine tactic of the engineer committed to solving difficult technical calculations, is his masterpiece.
