Paolo Mottadelli (MOZ) » Athlete

Bobsled individual push tests: 7.47, that’s good

admin — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:44:41 +0000

Very intersting day, yesterday; for the first time I could challenge myself in bobsled individual tests.
Being a guy who comes from Decathlon and is used to be all by himself during a two-days-race, I was a little bit sick of not having any individual measurement of my performances.
Yesterday the men bobsled Italian team was in Cesana Pariol and we did a 2-pushes test with a 130kgs sled down the indoor track.
I had a very positive feedback, improving my last (that was October) best by 24 cents of a second; I set 7.47 and my best was 7.71. That is good news because I feel I am on the right track to gain, one day, a place on Italy-1.
Today we are traveling to Koenigssee for the next World Cup race (Jan 10th-11th)

100 Minutes Decathlon – October 5th

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:09:04 +0000

Italian Decathlon Champion: 4th time.

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:16:46 +0000

With a great delay, pushed by the recent Olympic spirit, here is the annouce of my 4th Italian Decathlon Title.

It was not a great performance (7215 points) but it was enough to win a valuable national title.

I was recently watching time ever records in number fo national title wins…. well, I’m still very far from Franco Sar, who won 8 times between the 50s and the 60s

Anyway, this title was a nice shine in the dark sky of my season, due to a long time injury and poor of good performances. The only good race, during the last Decathlon was a PB in long jump: 7.25. It already time to thinj about the next season and start working hard!

Eptathletes hand in hand

admin — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:41:26 +0000

I found this nice picture on Flickr

Eptathletes after Osaka Eptathlon 2nd day.

Let’s guess who they are! Read the following names in order of appearence from right to left (fotofinish rules )))

Vasilikí Delinikóla, Linda Züblin, Yvonne Wisse, Aryiró Stratáki, Jessica Samuelsson, Olga Kurban, Ida Marcussen, Karolina Tyminska (I suppose… ) preceding for some centemeters Sonja Kesselschläger, Irina Naumenko and Nataliya Dobrynska.

It would be nice to have them all! OK, I’ll search some other photo

Post Update…

As promised, I found another one

Same order: Marie Collonvillé, Simone Oberer, Aiga Grabuste, Linda Züblin, Carolina Klüft, Jessica Ennis, Sylvie Dufour, Lyudmila Blonska and Kelly Sotherton