Just seeing her take a few steps to grasp her potential: Nadia Battocletti has a light, elegant, never disjointed stride. A perfect combination of legs and arms, torso inclination, energy management: all factors that have allowed her, at just 22 years of age, to carve out a leading role on an international level in an increasingly competitive and evolving track and field athletics. The middle-distance runner of the Fiamme Azzurre, on March 12 at the Roman Theater of Gubbio at the Cross Festival, enchanted the large audience with her advancing and impeccable run, conquering the thirtieth Italian title in her career, between cross-country running, mountain running and track. A thirtieth Italian title that joins the four European cross-country titles at an individual level between the Under 20s and Under 23s and which demonstrates, once again, the class of one of the most crystalline talents ever in our middle-distance running. « Every Italian title is an indelible memory in my memory», reveals Nadia smiling with kind manners, at the end of the lessons in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture in via Mesiano in Trento where she attends the fourth year, immersed in the greenery among the secular trees on a sky streaked with white clouds tending to purple near sunset.
Battocletti at the Roman Theater of Gubbio, on March 12, the thirtieth Italian title of his career arrived. What did he feel in those situations?
« An immense emotion and happiness, also because I've raced in Gubbio several times and it's a place I'm very fond of. Then, on that type of circuit I was able to express myself at my best, being quite suited to my characteristics; the sensations were very good, I felt I could run an efficient race and that's what happened».
Among the thirty Italian titles won, which is the one you are closest to?
« We are certainly always in the cross sector and I would say the first in 2014 in Marostica, in the first year of the Cadette category. I never expected to win, for me it was a total surprise; the favorite was Marta Zenoni, a girl with great potential, who by the way was in the lead from the start. I was second, I don't know how but I managed to reach it and overtake it about fifty meters from the finish line, winning my first Italian category title over 2 km. I still have goosebumps, it seems like yesterday and yet almost ten years have already passed».
