Elisa Desco (born 30 May 1982) is an Italian female

sky runner Skyrunning is a sport of mountain running above where the minimum average incline is 6% over the total distance and at least 5% has an incline of 30% or more. The climbing difficulty does not exceed II grade UIAA. Poles, crampons, and hands may ...

and

mountain runner Mountain running is a sports discipline which takes place mainly off-road in mountainous terrain, but if there is significant elevation gain on the route, surfaced roads may be used. In this it differs from fell running; its courses are more cl ...

world champion A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...

at the 2014 Skyrunning World Championships held in

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, and

European champion A European Championship is the top level international sports competition between European athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. In the plural, the European Championships also refers to a ...

at the 2008 European Mountain Running Championships held in

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Biography

She was also

at individual

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level she won 7 medals (1 gold individual and 6 with the

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) at the 2008

World Mountain Running Championships The World Mountain Running Championships (''World Mountain Running Trophy'' until 2008), is an international mountain running competition contested by athletes of the members of WMRA, World Mountain Running Association, the sport's global governi ...

but was disqualified for doping. She is engaged to the Italian

mountain running Mountain running is a sports discipline which takes place mainly off-road in mountainous terrain, but if there is significant elevation gain on the route, surfaced roads may be used. In this it differs from fell running; its courses are more ...

champion

Marco De Gasperi Marco De Gasperi (born 5 April 1977) is an Italian male mountain runner, sky runner and long-distance runner. Biography He won five gold medals at senior level (from 1997 to 2007) and one at junior level (1996), at the World Mountain Running C ...

and they live in

Bormio Bormio (, , ) is a town and ''comune'' with a population of about 4,100 located in the Province of Sondrio, Lombardy region of the Alps in northern Italy. The centre of the upper Valtellina valley, it is a popular winter sports resort. It was the ...

with their two daughters named Lidia (2011) and Cecilia (2017).

Achievements

Team results

** 2005, 2013, 2014 (3)

National titles

* Italian Mountain Running Championships **

Mountain running Mountain running is a sports discipline which takes place mainly off-road in mountainous terrain, but if there is significant elevation gain on the route, surfaced roads may be used. In this it differs from fell running; its courses are more ...

: 2008, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2019 (5) *

Italian Long Distance Mountain Running Championships The Italian Long Distance Mountain Running Championships () are the national championships in long-distance mountain running, organised every year by the Italian Athletics Federation, FIDAL from 2010. The first edition of these Italian championshi ...

** Long distance mountain running: 2013, 2014 (2)

References

External links

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FIDAL The Italian Athletics Federation (Italian: ''Federazione Italiana di Atletica Leggera'', FIDAL), is the governing body for athletics in Italy since 1906. The Italian Federation, founded on 21 October 1906, on initiative of ''La Gazzetta dello Sp ...

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Desco, Elisa 1982 births Living people Italian female mountain runners Italian sky runners Doping cases in athletics Skyrunning World Championships winners 21st-century Italian sportswomen