Annarita Sidoti
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| Nationality | Italian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 July 1969[nb] Gioiosa Marea, Italy |
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| Died | 21 May 2015 Gioiosa Marea, Italy |
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| Height | 1.50 m (4 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 42 kg (93 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Italy |
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Race walk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Annarita Sidoti (25 July 1969[nb] – 21 May 2015) was an Italian race walker.
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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][nb]
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
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- ↑ 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.
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- ↑ Italian race-walking chamption Annarita Sidoti dies at 44 (sic), timesofindia.indiatimes.com; accessed 21 May 2015.
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- ↑ Annarita Sidoti, raisport.rai.it; retrieved 28 June 2015.
External links
- Annarita Sidoti profile at IAAF
- Athlete profile at RAI web site
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- IAAF ID different in Wikidata
- 1969 births
- 2015 deaths
- Sportspeople from the Province of Messina
- Italian female racewalkers
- Olympic athletes of Italy
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- World Championships in Athletics athletes for Italy
- World Championships in Athletics medalists
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Cancer deaths in Italy
- Deaths from breast cancer
