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Bocconi Run 2011: A Record Year

, by Davide Ripamonti, translated by Alex Foti
The new course wasn't shorter, but it was straighter. And that was enough to produce some new records for the fastet Bocconi Run ever. Umberto Baracchi and Elena Vittone were the winners, with Nicolò Zingales leading the faculty runners

The third edition of Bocconi Run, the 8-kilometer running race organized by the Bocconi Sport Team on Sunday 2 October in Milan, was dominated by the Piedmontese. In fact, the winners were Umberto Baracchi, a 26-year old from Turin and member of Atletica Piemonte, enrolled in the "Amici" category, and Elena Vittone, a 20-year old Bocconi student from Chivasso of the Camelot Milano Athletic Society, who also won last year's women's race.
This year the race saw a change of course: it started from the historic Bocconi HQ in via Sarfatti and then took runners on the Navigli canals, with long straight paths that favored record times, 24'50" for men's race winner, and 28'48" for Elena, who improved on her last year's record time by about two minutes and a half.More than 260 athletes took part in the running competition. The pack of runners was preceded by the car of the sponsor, Auto Rigoldi. Bocconi Sport Team's President Alessandro Ciarlo thus comments the race: "All in all, this year's edition went very well, also thanks to the media contribution provided by Radio Bocconi. There were more participants than last year, and many were also the second-timers, a sure sign that the race has become a classic sporting competition within the Bocconi community."

The Bocconi faculty was well represented by, among others, Francesco Giavazzi, Carlo Favero, Giorgio Fiorentini, Stefano Zorzoli, and Debrah Meloso. The best runner among the faculty was the PhD Nicolò Zingales, 28 years of age and Assistant Professor at the Department of Law. He finished 8th overall, in a little more than 28 minutes: "A good result, although running for me is just a hobby", he explains, "My real passion is in fact surfing."
The absolute winner is a high-profile athlete. Umberto Baracchi, who will graduate in Dentistry from the University of Turin this November, is the Piedmont champion in the 5000-meter and 3000-meter steeplechase races, and ended up seventh in the 3000-meter steeplechase race in the last Italian track championships.

Elena, a former Piedmont Juniores champion in cross-country running, chose athletics, because "it's an individual sport that lets you personally taste the joy of victory and the bitterness of defeat."

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