Andrea Cionna (born 1968) is an Italian athlete from

Osimo Osimo is a town and ''comune'' of the Marche region of Italy, in the province of Ancona. The municipality covers a hilly area located approximately south of the port city of Ancona and the Adriatic Sea. History The oldest archaeological evide ...

in the Province of Ancona. He holds the world record for the fastest

marathon The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of kilometres ( 26 mi 385 yd), usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes. The marathon can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy. There ...

run by a totally blind man, set in 2:31:59 in Rome in 2007,"Campione del mondo! Record di Andrea Cionna alla maratona"
, ''Noi Giornalista'', March 21, 2007 and has won two bronze medals in blind long-distance running at the

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Cionna first competed at the Paralympic Games in 2004, entering two long-distance events and running with a sighted guide. In the 10,000 metres T11 event for totally blind runners, he finished third in 33:59.98, winning the bronze medal, behind Kenya's

Henry Wanyoike Henry Wanyoike (born 10 May 1974) is a Kenyan long-distance runner. He is blind and competes in the Paralympics and in marathon racing. Early career Wanyoike is one of the world's fastest runners. While still a child he was already being groom ...

(gold) and Portugal's Carlos Amaral Ferreira (silver). In the T11 marathon, he also finished third, in 2:49:59, behind Japan's Yuichi Takahashi (gold), and Portugal's Carlos Ferreira (silver). He competed again at the Paralympics in 2008, a year after setting a world record in the blind marathon. At the 2008 Paralympics, however, the T11 marathon had been abolished as a separate event, and athletes categorised T11 (totally blind) ran in the same marathon as athletes categorised T12 (partially sighted). Cionna ran fastest of the blind athletes, setting a Paralympic record for his category in 2:36:43, but he finished the race in seventh place, behind six runners categorised T12. The marathon was the only event he entered; the 10,000 metre race was now also a T12 event.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cionna, Andrea Paralympic athletes for Italy Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Paralympic bronze medalists for Italy Italian male marathon runners 1968 births Living people Sportspeople from the Province of Ancona Athletes from Marche World record holders in para-athletics Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) 20th-century Italian sportsmen

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