Rock Climbing Marathon – San Vito lo Capo, Sicily

The intent of the organisers was to promote the relatively unknown rock climbing potential in Sicily, and for the occasion the picturesque area on the extreme NW tip of the island, known as San Vito lo Capo, was chosen. This famous summer holiday resort also offers countless possibilities for sport climbing and multi-pitch climbing.

Thanks to the immense work of the organisers, spearheaded by Massimo Cappuccio, Peppe Gallo (authors of the rock climbing guide “Di roccia e di sole”, ed. Versante Sud), Daniele Arena & Co, Italian and international climbers managed to have fun on the beautiful rocks immersed in the typical Mediterranean setting. Sun, sea, warm temperatures, typical Mediterranean smells all helped create a context where climbing was certainly an excellent pretext to rest and relax.

To ensure that the meeting at San Vito was even more interesting a sort of "competition" was organised which was comprised of two formulas: an 8 hour climbing marathon on routes from 6a to 8b and an 4 hour half marathon on routes up to 6b. The competition was for climbing teams (no distinction between men and women): both climbers had to climb the same route and points were awarded depending on the grad of the route, the style of ascent (redpoint, resting) with a bonus if the route was climbed on-sight by both climbers. Superfluous to say that those who climbed fastest received most points, quantity proved more important than quality... as did the homogenous nature of the team.


The first edition of the San Vito Rock Climbing Marathon was won by Matteo Gambaro - Marco Nescatelli, followed by Mauro Calibani - Guido Jafelice. Third place went to Matteo Giglio - Angelika Rainer. Over 150 climbers took part in the meeting, including some of Italy's finest such as Gambaro, Nescatelli, Calibani, Rainer, Alberto Gnerro, Marzio Nardi, Alessandro Catalano, Elena Chiappa, Anna Torretta, Marco Ballerini, Norberto Riva and many others. As well as Scott Titt who bolted all the routes at the crag at Salinella Camping where the marathon took place.


RESULTS
MARATHON (8 hours)
1. Gambaro Matteo – Nescatelli Marco (1640,40)
2. Calibani Mauro – Jafelice Guido (1512,60)
3. Giglio Matteo – Rainer Angelika (1182,00)
4. Cermak Lucas – Frohlich Vojtech (1146,00)
5. Chiappa Elena – Ferrino Roberto (1081,70)
6. Del Tredici Marco – Spinoglio Luigi (1070,40)
7. Maquignaz Remy – Olliveri Riccardo (982,80)
8. Gnerro Alberto – Nardi Marzio (954,40)
9. Intropido Paolo – Trombetta Adriano (893,90)
10. Catalano Alessandro – Giammarco Luca (982,80)
11. Bonaventura Jonathan – Monaco Mirto (745,10)
12. Grigolli Luca – Piscina Caludio (743,30)
13. Bagnara Pietro – Guarino Livia (677,50)
14. Gallo Davide – Tamagnini Tommaso (625,30)
15. Fazzalari Marco – Mandra Davide (597,60)
16. Cappucciati Roberto – Quaresima Bruno (479,30)
17. Kysela Georg – Neumayr Manfred (471,60)
18. Crotta Roberto – Vescovo Chiara (433,20)
19. Albrisi Luca – Croce Alfredo (357,70)
20. Stella Luca – Zanni Emiliano (247,40)

HALF MARATHON (4 hours)
1. Candido Claus – Perkmann Annes (519,60)
2. Nespola Andrea – Zecchinelli Giacomo (360,00)
3. Cardaci Marco – Carranza Javier (346,80)
4. Leube Cristian – Sesti Guido (312,10)
5. Gstottenmeyer Joseph – Titt Scott (301,20)
6. Dargaud Guillaume – Mariani Jennifer (299,70)
7. Gaddi Graziana – Riva Norberto (287,80)
8. Bernardini Paolo – Lombardi Gianfranco (266,20)
9. Amoroso Mauro – Randazzo Fausto (264,30)
10. Ballerini Marco – Ballerini Maria (259,20)
11. Lentini Riccardo – Piera Simon Alberto (235,20)
12. Massi Fabio – Milazzo Diego (214,00)
13. Iannotta Eduardo – Seminara Daniele (213,40)
14. Di Benedetto Giuseppe – Lo Manno Giuseppina (209,10)
15. Dessi Roberto – Donini Francesco (198,70)
16. Bresson Pascal – Lazzaroni Maurizio (170,30)
17. Soraci Sergio – Torretta Anna (160,70)
18. Palumbo Pietro – Parodi Luigi (158,50)
19. Leto Alice – Mannarrano Ignazio (158,00)
20. Ercolino Lorenza – Viscusi Marco (154,80)
21. Cammara Rosario – Cumbo Florinda (152,90)
22. Lanfredi Palma – Maccarinelli Erika Elisa (140,70)
23. Maraone Alberto – Riva Pietro (140,40)
24. Patti Vito – Ramondetta Pietro (128,50)
25. D'Alberto Giorgio – D'Alberto Nicola (125,20)
26. Fenu Loretta – Trudu Andrea (124,70)
27. Antonioli Fabrizio – Scoppola Margherita (118,10)
28. Oelze Kastern – Titt Jim (100,80)
29. Cassetta Giuseppe – Zagarella Mario (88,20)
30. Cascone Cristina – Puleo Marco (78,20)
Di Guardo Luca – Manca Stefano (77,10)
32. Innocenti Marco – Nalin Sergio (75,90)
33. Megna Vincenzo – Rosalia Giuseppe (67,50)
34. Cala Lesina Eleonora – Catalfamo Luca (62,00)
35. Buono Giuseppe – Rossattini Chiara (61,90)
36. Fichera Giovanni – Martinico Giuseppe (60,30)
37. Battaglia Luca – Valentino Davide (55,20)
38. Ashtari Ismail – Incagnone Giulia (46,90)
39. Mosca Marco – Rossi Barbara (46,10)
40. Aldé Anna – Aldé Carlo (42,80)
41. Duong Khaison – Minacapilli Paolo (40,70)
42. Mustica Fabia – Pagliaro Alessandro (30,60)
43. Lanzafame Luigi – Lo Jacono Gaetano (26,80)
44. Morina Caludio – Muciaccia Federico (24,70)
45. Marino Giada – Martinez Umberto (20,50)
46. Faricelli Francesca – Orto Giuseppe (14,00)
47. Galluzzo Giuseppe – Verro Vincenza (11,00)
48. Osswald Sina – Pizzo Beatrice (9,90)
49. Marabito Vincenzo – Montalto Simona (8,90)