Alessandro Di Lello
Italian Paralympic athlete
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Alessandro Di Lello (born 18 July 1977) is a Paralympic athlete from Italy competing mainly in category T46 long distance events.[1] In 2012 Di Lello won the marathon at the IPC World Championships and followed this with victory in the T46 classification at the 2013 London Marathon.
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Di Lello at the 2014 London Marathon | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Alessandro Di Lello | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 July 1977 Tivoli, Italy | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | Italy | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | T46 Marathon | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Athletic Terni | ||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Sports career
Di Lello first began running in an attempt to lose weight, and in 1992 he started competing in long distance races.[1] A motor bike accident resulted in a muscle impairment and Di Lello was subsequently classified as a T46 parasport athlete.[1] One of the first major competitions he entered was the 2009 New York Marathon, but he was forced to retire from the event with an Achilles tendon inflammation.[1][2] In 2012 he competed alongside fellow countryman Walter Endrizzi in the Summer Paralympics in London. Di Lello finished 8th with a time of 2.46:27.[1]
The next year Di Lello competed in T46 marathon at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon. Di Lello ran a time of 2:33.42 to take the gold ahead of Portugal's Pedro Meza.[1] 2013 also saw Di Lello win the T44-46 category in the London Marathon with a time of 2:32.06.[3]