Historic day for Lombardy athletics: today morning, Saturday 15 June Brescia the foundation stone was laid indoor arena equipped with a ring which will rise behind the stands of the Gabre Gabric outdoor field, where the national Assoluto Challenge is currently underway. An indoor structure that Lombardy has been waiting for years: a work born ideally on Friday 3 December 2021 from a meeting between the then mayor of the city of Leonessa Emilio Delbono with the president of FIDAL Lombardia Gianni Mauri (flanked by the vice-president Roberto Goffi, the president FIDAL Brescia Rolando Perri and the president of CONI Lombardy Marco Riva). «For us in athletics it is a very strong emotion – he comments today Gianni Mauri -: it is an act of love towards our sport. The birth of this structure comes from afar, from the meeting of the FIDAL Lombardy Regional Committee, which collected the needs that emerged and emerge from the base, from the clubs, from the technicians and from the athletes who work with commitment on the fields every day, with the The attention and sensitivity of Emilio Delbono (present at today’s event, ed.) and the municipal administration of Brescia towards sport and in particular towards athletics. Athletics has an important history here, starting from afar, from a master of sports like Sandro Calvesiand coming to the recent past, with a great manager like Stefano Martinelli. Lombard athletics believes in it, all Italian athletics believes in it: FIDAL Brescia will be up to the task of active and conscious management.”
In addition to Mauri and Delbono, the mayor of Brescia, among others, was present at the laying of the first stone today in Brescia. Laura Castelletti and the councillors Valter Muchetti (Public Works), Alessandro Cantoni (Sports) e Marco Garza (Resources of the Municipality), for Brescia Infrastrutture the president of Brescia Infrastrutture Marcello Peli, for the Italian Athletics Federation the national president Stefano Meithe national vice president Grazia Maria Vannithe vice president of FIDAL Lombardy Luca Barzaghi with the councillors Federico Danesi, Bruno Frigeri And Gianpaolo shore and the president of FIDAL Brescia Rolando Perri (with other provincial presidents: Francesca Pirotta for Como/Lecco e Paolo Galimberti for Milan) and for DVision Architecture Marco Merigo: an athlete from Brescia returning from the 2024 European Championships in Rome, the 2023 world finalist in the 4×400, attended, obviously wearing a blue jersey. Alessandra Bonora. The end of the works is scheduled for January 2026.
Photo by Davide Vaninetti
