Andrea Agrusti
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Born | (1995-08-30) 30 August 1995 (age 28) Sassari, Italy | |||||||||||
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Country | Italy | |||||||||||
Sport | Racewalking | |||||||||||
Club | G.S. Fiamme Gialle | |||||||||||
Coached by | Patrizio Parcesepe | |||||||||||
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Andrea Agrusti (born 30 August 1995 in Sassari) is an Italian racewalker. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in 50 km walk.[1]
Biography
He became interested with athletics after looking 2004 Olympic Games at television, but he started with sprint and doing also some basket. Then he specialised only in racewalking, with coach Marco Sanna in Sassari. He won his first Junior National title in 2014 and from November 2014 he moved to Castel Porziano [fr] with a new coach, Patrizio Parcesepe. He participated to his first 50 km walk in 2015.[2]
With 6 National caps, he finished 11th at 2018 European Championships, 22nd at 2018 World Team Championships, 11th at 2017 European Cup and did not finished this race in 2019, then at his third attempt, he won the bronze medal at 2021 European Team Championships, with his personal best, qualifying him to the 2020 Olympics.[3]
References
- ^ "Athletics AGRUSTI Andrea". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2021-07-26. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
- ^ "Andrea Agrusti (g.a. Fiamme Gialle)". www.fidal.it.
- ^ "Italia doppio oro a squadre nella 35 e 50 km". www.fidal.it.
External links
- Andrea Agrusti at World Athletics
- Andrea Agrusti at the Italian Athletics Federation (in Italian)
- Andrea Agrusti at Olympics.com
- Andrea Agrusti at Olympedia
- Andrea Agrusti at the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)
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