The sports group of the Istituto Comprensivo Rita Levi Montalcini of San Giorgio del Sannio has taken first place at the second edition of "Maratona al Maradona – La Staffetta di Miguel."
The competition was held on the athletics track of the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona in Naples, with 42 schools taking part from the five provinces of Campania.
The school sports group was coordinated by teacher Romina Tufo. The names of the student runners and the winning time were not included in the reports available for this edition.
A marathon run as a school relay
The event covers the full marathon distance of 42.195 kilometres, run as a relay with individual legs of one thousand metres.
That format allowed a large school team to share the distance, with each runner completing a one-thousand-metre leg before handing over to a teammate until the marathon distance was completed.
The 2026 event was scheduled at the Maradona stadium on 12 and 13 November, bringing together school teams from across Campania in the same venue.
The memory of Miguel Sanchez
The relay is dedicated to the memory of Miguel Sanchez, the Argentine athlete, poet and writer who disappeared during the Argentine dictatorship.
The event was promoted by La Corsa di Miguel, with the patronage of the City of Naples and the Campania Region and the collaboration of CONI, FIDAL, AICS and UISP.
The official site of the winning school identifies it as the "Rita Levi Montalcini" institute of San Giorgio del Sannio, in the province of Benevento.
Its first-place finish ahead of 41 other participating schools marks a notable result for the Sannio school in a regional competition hosted in one of Italian football's most familiar stadiums turned, for the occasion, into an athletics relay course.
