It is the annual meeting of walking and middle distance running organized by Top Training ADS which promotes athletics and running through the experience of the national coach Giorgio Rondelli and is scheduled at the Arena Civica in Milan
ESET, global leader in the cybersecurity market, is sponsor of the Walk & Middle Distance Night by ESET initiative, a national athletics meeting reserved only for the disciplines of walking and middle distance. The event was born in 2011 from an idea by Giorgio Rondelli, national athletics coach, sports journalist and RAI technical commentator, and this year the tenth edition will be held on April 24th at the Arena Civica in Milan.
ESET is a company that has been dealing with IT security for businesses for over thirty years and firmly believes in the values of sport, also thanks to its Italian Country Manager, Fabio Buccigrossi, who is also an excellent marathon runner.
Walk & Middle Distance Night by ESET (WMD-NIGHT) is one of the most important athletics meetings taking place in Italy, a track race for the youth and overall categories, which involves the participation of at least 400 athletes, including some of the main Italian athletes of the two disciplines. Racing will begin at 3.30pm and national athletes are expected to participate during the five hours of non-stop racing, some of whom will be attempting to achieve Olympic participation minimums. The event will be broadcast live on the Top Training YouTube channel.
“WMD-NIGHT is a unique event of its kind, designed with a modern and captivating formula, for those who participate and also for the spectators, whether they are present on the field or connected online – underlines Giorgio Rondelli, National Athletics Coach and sports commentator -. "They are races of a high technical level because they were designed in collaboration with the federal staff and we are happy to have managed to reconfirm the appointment, while remembering that last year, due to the health emergency, we had to give it up. For this edition we would have liked to return to the XXV Aprile Sports Center in Milan but, due to problems related to the structure of the facilities, it was necessary to fall back on the beautiful athletics track of the Arena Civica, which is well suited to respecting the distancing measures envisaged by the Prime Ministerial Decree."
"We are happy to sponsor this important march and middle distance meeting and to be able to contribute to promoting athletics in our country" - underlines Fabio Buccigrossi, Country Manager of ESET Italy –. "Personally, I find many analogies between the world of work and that of sport and how the latter can become a real reference model. Sport is about training and requires commitment, then you have to compete, compare yourself with others, even with those who are better than us and you need to find the right stimuli to be able to improve yourself and win new challenges. The same goes in the business world, where every day we have new objectives and security requests to satisfy and customers to support in the protection of their company data. We need structured plans of training to achieve sporting goals and the same happens in work. Those who grow up in sport as a young person acquire those values that can make a difference in the future both in their professional activity and in the private sphere – concludes Buccigrossi.”
