Overview

• In Cremona, Badr Jaafari claimed the men’s national crown in 1:01:48 and Sara Bottarelli won the women’s title in a 1:11:46 personal best at the Italian Half Marathon Championships.
• The championships doubled as the third stage of the road running club series and drew roughly 1,300 entrants, with Ahmed Ouhda (1:02:14) and Alberto Mondazzi (1:02:15) on the men’s podium and Anna Arnaudo second in 1:12:50.
• The overall Half Marathon Cremona was won by Burundi’s Egide Ntakarutimana in a 1:01:32 event record and Eritrea’s Rahel Daniel in 1:10:27, with Nekagenet Crippa and Nicole Reina not finishing.
• In Rome, Kenya’s Simon Maywa set a 59:44 men’s course best and Regina Cheptoo won in 1:08:26, as 18,540 starters lined up from more than 22,000 registrations with about 72% from abroad; Sofiia Yaremchuk placed fifth in 1:11:01 and Lorenzo Martelli was top Italian man.
• In Trieste, Nadia Battocletti won the Corsa dei Castelli 10 km in 32:52 and South Africa’s Maxim Chaumeton ran 27:50 for a record on the new route, with roughly 4,000 participants and Italy sweeping the U23 road match.