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Two Runner Deaths Put Italian Prosecutors’ Focus on Club Medical Certificates

Autopsies are complete with laboratory testing now underway to establish the causes.

Overview

  • Prosecutors in Vicenza and Verona are scrutinizing the athletes’ agonistic medical certificates after two Team Km Sport members died in their sleep weeks apart.
  • Forensic exams with tissue sampling have been completed, and magistrates ordered expanded analyses of biological fluids; no official cause of death has been released.
  • Investigators obtained only a 2021 certificate for Anna Zilio from a medical practice and are checking whether her more recent documentation was manipulated.
  • Police seized Zilio’s personal computer to review scanned certificates for club members stored for Fidal record-keeping.
  • Authorities say Alberto Zordan’s paperwork was current and valid, while relatives and the club await lab results and report no evidence the cases are linked.