- Daniele Meucci
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Medal record 
Meucci at the 2010 European ChampionshipsMen's athletics Competitor for 
ItalyEuropean Championships Bronze 2010 Barcelona 10,000 m Daniele Meucci (born 7 October 1985) is an Italian athlete who specialises in long-distance running, including track running, cross country and road running.
Born in Pisa, he began competing internationally in 2006 and was fourteen at the European Cup 10000m and improved to tenth place in the 10,000 metres at the 2006 European Athletics Championships. He won a bronze medal and a team silver medal at under-23 level at that year's European Cross Country Championships, which was held in San Giorgio su Legnano. The following year he was sixth at the 2007 European Cup 10000m in Ferrara and won the 10,000 m bronze at the 2007 European Athletics U23 Championships.
He represented Italy on the world stage for the first time in 2008, but he only managed 99th place in the senior race at the 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. He had greater success at European level that year, again taking sixth in the European Cup race and finishing twelfth in the senior race at the 2008 European Cross Country Championships.
Meucci took up road running in 2009 and was fifth at the Stramilano Half Marathon with a time of 1:02:56.[1] He returned to the track in the summer and took on the shorter 3000 metres at the 2009 European Team Championships, winning a bronze medal. Two months later he competed on the global track stage for the first time but he did not progress out of the 5000 metres heats at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. Demonstrating his versatility over different surfaces, he was 18th at the 2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships on the streets of Birmingham in October (recording a personal best 1:02:43) and led the Italians to the team bronze with a ninth place finish at the 2009 European Cross Country Championships.
The Italian slightly improved his half marathon best with a 1:02:41 run for fifth at the 2010 Roma Ostia Half Marathon,[2] and he ran his first full-length marathon at the Rome City Marathon soon after, where he was eleventh overall.[3] He won his first major medal later that year at the 2010 European Athletics Championships. In the men's 10,000 m he headed to the line after winner Mo Farah, but Chris Thompson just pipped Meucci at the line, leaving the Italian with a bronze medal.[4]
The following year he managed only eleventh in the 3000 m at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships[5] He was beaten to the 2011 national title in the 5000 m by Stefano La Rosa, but set a personal best in the 10,000 m as a guest at the UK Championships, completing the distance in a time of 27:44.50 minutes.[6] He represented Italy in both long-distance track events at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, coming twelfth over 10,000 m and tenth in the 5000 m. After the championships, a half marathon best (1:02:30 hours) came at the Udine Half Marathon and then he was runner-up behind Edwin Soi at the Giro al Sas 10K race.[7]
References
- IAAF profile for Daniele Meucci
- ^ Sampaolo, Diego (2009-04-05). Kimugul and Kebede take Stramilano Half Marathon titles. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-31.
- ^ Zorzi, Alberto (2010-02-28). Kimeli and Timbilil battle the winds to take Roma Ostia titles. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-31.
- ^ Sampaolo, Diego (2010-03-21). Ethiopian double as Rome celebrates Bikila – Rome Marathon report. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-31.
- ^ Farah finds relief at the end of a long, hard road. European Athletics (2010-09-27). Retrieved on 2010-07-31.
- ^ Final Results. 2011 European Indoors. Retrieved on 2011-10-10.
- ^ 2011 Italian Athletics Championships Results. FIDAL. Retrieved on 2011-10-10.
- ^ Sampaolo, Diego (2011-10-10). Kurgat clocks course record in Carpi. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-10.
External links
- Athlete profile at FIDAL (Italian)
- In-depth article from IAAF
Categories:- 1985 births
- Living people
- People from Pisa
- Italian long-distance runners
- Male long-distance runners
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