The Trieste Spring Run presented

The Press Conference to present the Trieste Spring Run 2024 took place on Tuesday 16 April, organized by the APD Miramar in collaboration with the Asd Trieste Atletica Aps, with the co-organization of the Municipality of Trieste and the patronage of the Fvg Region.

The event was held outdoors, in Porto Vivo, the symbolic location of this year’s event, which for the first time will cross the iconic coastal stretch recently returned to the city of Trieste. The guests met at the color artistic installation created by Elisa Vladilo in the area in front of the new Congress Center. “The Trieste Spring Run is an event that is synonymous with aggregation and promotion of the territory and is full of strengths that go well with the values ​​and strategic assets on which the Region bases its work. – are the words of the President of the FVG Region Massimiliano Fedriga, who was unable to attend the press conference but still wanted to leave a message to the organizers – It is extraordinary, continues Fedriga, the potential of attractiveness for the territory, with a unique route in its genre along the Trieste coast and the unprecedented passage through Porto Vivo, highly symbolic of a place that the Region is relaunching with conviction to create new opportunities for development and innovation”. Many institutional representatives present showed their support for the event. “It is an honor to be, today, the Councilor for Sport of the Municipality of Trieste – began Elisa Lodi, who is also Councilor for Real Estate Policies – Sporting events of all kinds are organized every weekend, the city has a great vocation sports fueled by the passion and commitment of the associations and their volunteers.

Today we present an excellence of the territory, a historic event that over the years has been able to reinvent itself by embracing innovations, including all the aspects linked to social inclusion which are very important”. Everest Bertoli, Councilor for financial policies with responsibility for Porto Vivo, also agrees on the importance of being open to new things, focusing precisely on the future of the former Porto Vecchio: “This year the Trieste Spring Run has a route that has a ‘exceptional tourist value but above all it represents the future of the city of Trieste. The return of Porto Vivo to the city with regeneration interventions and the registration of the logo are celebrated by an event that tells us a lot about Trieste, its sea, its soul and its history”. The most applauded and appreciated speech of the morning was that of Giorgia Marchi, Paralympic swimmer present at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics and testimonial of the event. Giorgia took the floor and talked about her relationship with sport and the challenges it has posed to her over the years. “In the pool I don’t feel different from anyone” she says, amidst her emotion, her mother Federica Verin and all those present, underlining how “sport continually presents you with challenges, objectives and goals to achieve and once achieved you have to continue, be constant, to aim for the next one”.

Speakers were followed by the new President of the ASD Trieste Atletica Aps Pompeo Tria, the President of the APD Miramar Emilio Porto, and the Testimonial of the event Giorgia Marchi, paralympic swimming champion. Then there was space for the Institutions and Main Sponsors, in the front row to support the event: Elisa Lodi, Councilor for Real Estate and Sport Policies of the Municipality of Trieste, and Everest Bertoli, Councilor for Financial Policies of the Municipality of Trieste, took the floor with delegation to Porto Vivo, Igor Gabrovec, Mayor of the Municipality of Duino Aurisina, institutional partner of the event, the SIOT President and General Manager of TAL Alessio Lilli, the Head of Communication and Stakeholder Relations Acegas ApsAmga Luciana De Mori, the Marketing Manager and Despar FVG Press Office Tiziana Pituelli, the President of ZKB Trieste and Gorizia Adriano Kovacic, the Regional Coordinator of Sport and Health FVG Erika Dessabo, the President of FIDAL – Italian Athletics Federation of Trieste Giacomo Biviano and the CONI Delegate of Trieste Ernesto Mari and Roberto Merkuza, Sales Director of Treesport – Breathe your life, technical sponsor of the Trieste Spring Run. Among those present were Fabrizio Cicero, Regional Director of Despar FVG, Elena Bruno de Curtis, member of Generali’s Group Corporate Identity team, among the Main Partners of the event, and Klaudia Krizek, Vice President and Volunteer of the Onlus Associazione Bambini del Danubio, Charity Partner of the event together with the Dynamo Camp Foundation, Vaira Vesnaver, Marketing Communication Manager of Jotun Europe Sales, Serena Pilot and Sandra Turchet, respectively Sports Director and Vice President of the ASD Skating Club Comina.

TRIESTE SPRING RUN 2024

Sport, tourism, social inclusion, environment, art and culture. These are the ingredients of the third edition of the Trieste Spring Run, an event with a strong appeal for the people of Trieste and beyond. In the last edition, in fact, among the over 5000 participants there were representatives of 26 countries: Austria, Australia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Malta, Holland, Paraguay, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, Great Britain. Like every year, there are many collateral events scheduled, starting with the brand new Trieste Spring Art, a traveling exhibition to enhance the symbolic places of the Trieste center through art, but also tasting events and debates dedicated to the world of regional sport. This year the event will embrace the whole city, with the inauguration, scheduled for Monday 29 April, of the Expo Village along the Trieste banks. From the previous week, the opening is scheduled for Monday 22 April, while the stand in Piazza della Borsa will be operational, available to everyone for information and registration. More details will be provided in the next few days via the website www.triestespringrun.com, and will be explored in depth at the next press conference, scheduled for Monday 29 April next to coincide with the inauguration of the Expo Village. The event is organized in the name of environmental sustainability with the use of plastic-free compostable materials.

BIND

The key day will be Sunday 5 May in which the Coastal Road, the Barcolano seafront and the city center will be the scene of four different races: the Trieste 21K (start at 9.30) is one of the most fascinating half marathons in Europe with its 21.0975 km drawn between Duino and Piazza Unità with the sea always keeping the participants company, the 21K Trieste Spring Roller Marathon (departure at 9.15) which is the version with skates on the feet of the 21K, introduced in 2023 with the support of the Comina Skating Club. Competitiveness will be just one of the ingredients of the first Sunday of May, in which the Bavisela Family Run (a 7 km non-competitive race from Miramare Castle to Piazza Unità) will be the main actor with its over 6000 expected participants. The start of the Bavisela Family Run (10:00 am) will be anticipated at 09:45 by the Solidarity Relay in which teams of three people (the times of the three participants will be added to draw up a ranking) will run on the 7 km Family route for a noble and supportive cause, that is, supporting the activities of Dynamo Camp, charity partner of the event together with the Danube Children’s Association. As usual, the appetizer of the Trieste Spring Run will be represented by the enthusiasm of the students of the Trieste Spring Young who will compete on a series of modular routes set up in Piazza Unità, from 10.00 on Thursday 2 May. The lineup of top runners expected for the 21 km is being defined.

CHARITY PARTNERS

An integral part of the event has been represented, since its inception, by the involvement of associations and social entities active in the area and beyond, with the aim of underlining the central role of sport as a vehicle for inclusion and all-round social cohesion. To enrich the third edition there is the presence of two Charity Partners with extremely relevant experiences in social activities and a Solidarity Relay, linked to one of them, not to be missed. Info Staffetta Solidale: https://triestespringrun.com/staffetta-solidale/. These are the “Dynamo Camp”, a well-known international organization dedicated to playful motor therapy for children and young people, and the local association “Bambini del Danubio” created with the aim of allowing children access to medical care. Dynamo Camp works for the Right to Happiness of children and young people with serious pathologies and their families; offering free Dynamo® Recreational Therapy programs to children with serious or chronic pathologies, their brothers and sisters and their parents. Climbing, archery, water activities, farm and horse, circus, vegetable gardens, ceramics, hip hop, rap, magical stories, Dynamo Art Factory, Radio Dynamo, Dynamo Studios are just some of the activities that give children fun , sociability and self-confidence. The Danube Children’s Onlus Association, founded in Trieste in 2004, was founded with the aim of allowing access to medical care for seriously ill children belonging to poor families residing in the Danube-Balkan area. Over the years it has extended its activity to also provide help to minors from developing countries in Africa, South America and Asia. The Association undertakes to support the costs of surgical operations, medical care and logistical support for family members accompanying the child.

THE TESTIMONIAL: GIORGIA MARCHI

An ideal passing of the baton from a high level Paralympic athlete to another who is no less. In 2023 the face of the Trieste Spring Run was Matteo Parenzan, already standard-bearer at the Closing Ceremony of the Tokyo Paralympics, capable of winning the European and World Paralympic table tennis championships in the same year, while the 2024 edition will feature on the cover Giorgia Marchi, from Trieste and rising Paralympic swimmer who, after experiencing the thrill of 12th place in the 100m breaststroke at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, will want to repeat the experience this summer in Paris. The girl from Trieste, born in 2001, is the Italian athlete with a relational intellectual disability, of reference and will be the testimonial of the Trieste Spring Run 2024. She exploded among the ranks of the USTN (Unione Sportiva Triestina Nuoto), after a path of further growth under the guidance of the Verona Swimming Team, for which she is a member of the Paralympic circuit, she joined the Fiamme Oro Sports Group in 2023 and today swims in Trieste with the Asd Tergeste Nuoto Altura, being part of the absolute team and therefore always training with the able-bodied. Giorgia’s story is a tale of obstacles overcome over the years thanks to the perseverance and discipline with which she faced every aspect of her life from school to sport, from fear to putting her head under water to getting on the stage of the Paralympics . Giorgia, she understood herself, accepted herself and with enviable strength managed to transform her difficulties into opportunities, gradually raising the bar while the individual objectives were achieved, including personal and athletic growth before everyone’s eyes.