Bruna Genovese

BRUNA GENOVESE
ITALY

BIRTHDATE:
24 September 1976

PERSONAL BEST:
2:25:28 (Boston, 2006)

WORLD MARATHON MAJOR HIGHLIGHTS:

11Apr10 Boston Marathon 5th 2:29:12
17Aug08 Olympic Marathon, Beijing 17th 2:31:31
21Apr08 Boston Marathon 6th 2:30:52
17Apr06 Boston Marathon 4th 2:25:28
06Nov05 ING New York City Marathon 5th 2:27:15
18Apr05 Boston Marathon 3rd 2:29:51
22Aug04 Olympic Marathon, Athens 10th 2:32:50
13Apr03 Flora London Marathon 14th 2:32:58
15Apr02 Boston Marathon 6th 2:29:02
12Aug01 World Championships 17th 2:33:13
16Apr01 Boston Marathon 9th 2:30:39

ADDITIONAL CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

15Nov09 Yokohoma Women's Marathon 4th 2:2957
19Arp09 Turin Marathon 3rd 2:30:51
18Nov07 Tokyo International Women's Marathon 3rd 2:27:35
12Aug06 European Championships 5th 2:31:15
21Nov04 Tokyo International Women’s Marathon 1st 2:26:34
28Mar04 Rome Marathon 2nd 2:29:04
16Nov03 Tokyo International Women’s Marathon 4th 2:34:04
18Nov01 Tokyo International Women’s Marathon 3rd 2:25:35
24Oct99 Venice Marathon 3rd 2:31:06

CAREER NOTES:

Genovese began running at age 12 and went on to become the Italian Junior 12K Champion in 1995 and the Under-21 Half Marathon Italian Champion in 1998. At the 1999 Venice Marathon, Genovese finished her debut race by placing third with a 2:31:06 Olympic “A” qualifying time even though she was only scheduled to run 30K.

She has enjoyed great success at the Tokyo International Women's Marathon. After a third place in 2001 and fourth in 2003, she earned her only career marathon victory with a 2:26:34 there in 2004. That year she was also second in Rome and 10th at the Olympics. She returned in 2007 to earn another podium position in third.

Genovese turned in two solid 2005 marathon performances with her third in Boston and fifth in New York City. In the half marathon, she was the Italian Half Marathon Champion in 2005 and also won the Cremona Half Marathon in a PR 1:11:22.

For the second consecutive year Genovese recorded a top-five finish at Boston in 2006, placing fourth with a new personal best of 2:25:28. She was also fifth at that summer's European Championships.

She ran her second Olympic marathon in 2008 and got back into the scoring column in the World Marathon Majors with a fifth at Boston in 2010.

PERSONAL NOTES:

Genovese lives in the Montello area of Italy and trains under the direction of 1992 Olympian Salvatore Bettiol of Italy. Genovese does not have a profession outside of running and has a degree in statistics and information science. She is single and has one sister. Her hobbies are reading books and going to the cinema.