Instinct choices,
Rationality follows
A taekwondoka turned endurance athlete
I started this long sport journey thanks to my swimming classes in my childhood, together with what I consider the first milestone of my life: my taekwondo learning path. I joined several tournaments, met a lot of friends and expecially, I started to understand how my body works, and changing my introvert nature. The dark belt (first DAN) is one of the last things of that experience, and I still feel today a strong pride and emotions when I wear it. I will come back one day.
After two parenthesis in tennis, I started competing again in mountain-bike in 2017-2018, running (2018-present), and road cycling (2021-present). And from 2024 I started duathlons as well. It seems the most promising one, at least for me. I have won a national age-group championship in Imola, on April 2025. This deserves a dedicated blog post, for all the months full of emotions and fear that lead me to that. I think my athletic history is much more behind other areas of my life, even if it seems I train a lot from outside. I do. But it’s still a pretty recent thing, and my passions have not yet converged towards a clear goal. For this reason I keep exploring. My athletic and engineering achievments are not only selfish results, but I want to spread information and consciousness about life as a student-athlete, both for future students and current success stories. I share my story because every path towards excellence is paved of hard lessons learnt, emotions and people. Expecially people.
Aside from that, I think sport is also about exploration, other than competition. And biking around really helps me connecting more with the territory I live in.
My results highlights
🚴♂️Road Cycling: competing for an amatorial Italian cycling team (Team MP Filtri).
- 4th at National University Championships (CNU), Camerino, 2023. official results
- 7th (4th Italian) UCI Granfondo World Championships (side event), Uphill Time Trial “Charly Gaul”, Monte Bondone, Trento, 2022. results
🏃♂️Road Runner:
- Memorial Fava: 8th (2022), 16th (8th Italian) (2019) + won a small local race, La Pasqualonga, in 2019🙂. My first victory.
- 10 km time: 34:43, Duathlon Classic Italian Championships 2024 (results)
- 5km time: 15:53, Duathlon Sprint Italian Championships 2025 (time)
🥋Taekwondo: black belt + several podiums at inter-regional youth competitions
Triathlon 🏊♂️➡️🚴♂️➡️🏃♂️ (TD Rimini):
- 4th at Duathlon Sprint Italian Championships (Age Group) Imola, 2025 + Italian champion Age Group 25-29 (results)