Alberico Di Cecco
Alberico Di Cecco ( born April 19, 1974 in Guardiagrele ) is an Italian marathon runner.
Making its debut at the 42,195 -km distance he came in 1996 to 19th place in the Maratona d' Italia in 2:20:23 h following year, he finished the Turin Marathon on the 13th Place.
His breakthrough came in 2000 when he finished second at the Maratona d' Italia. He was third in the Rome Marathon in 2001 and came at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton on the 17th Place. In 2002, he won the marathon and Piacenza in Turin and was twelfth at the European Athletics Championships in Munich. With another third place in Rome, he qualified for the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint- Denis, where he broke in at number 22. In the New York City Marathon, he finished fifth.
In 2004 he was nominated for a sixth place in Treviso Marathon and a second in Turin for the Olympic Games in Athens, where he finished ninth. In 2005 he won in Rome and was sixth in New York City. In 2006 he was second in the Venice Marathon. Second, he was also at the 2007 Maratona di Sant'Antonio and the Florence Marathon. In 2008 he repeated his second place at the Maratona di Sant'Antonio. In the Maratona d' Italia he came in fifth place, but was tested in the subsequent doping test positive for erythropoietin ( EPO). He was then disqualified and banned because of this breach of the doping regulations for two years.
Alberico Di Cecco is 1.74 meters tall and weighs 62 kg. He is trained by Romano Tordelli and starts for the Carabinieri Bologna.