His pace seems unstoppable; his legs grind out kilometer after kilometer at an average of 18k per hour, “dominating” one race after another: it was already well known that Carmine Buccilli is one of the strongest Italian athletes currently competing, so it comes as no great surprise that Team Oxyburn’s star athlete triumphed on Sunday, April 24, in the 43rd edition of the Pedagnalonga 21k, a half-marathon run in a natural setting through the lands and farms of the Bonifica Pontina, and that on Monday, April 25, he followed that up with another victory at the CorriAlvito—the fourth Federico Buccilli Memorial.

On Sunday the 24th, in fact, the strong athlete from Lazio scored an impressive victory in the Borgo Hermada Classic, in the Agro Pontino region—a 21k race that had been in doubt due to bad weather until the day before— finishing in 1h10’03” and finishing a full five minutes ahead of Morocco’s Cherkaoui El Makhrout and Italy’s Vincenzo Di Girolamo.

Then, on Monday the 25th , Carmine Buccilli competed in the CorrAlvito, an Oxyburn-sponsored race organized by his club that drew more than three hundred runners. In this race, the athlete, despite a veritable deluge, set his own “breakneck” pace in an extremely grueling race, characterized by numerous climbs and, indeed, extremely adverse weather conditions—which, however, did not affect the Lazio native’s pace nor prevent a large crowd from turning out to watch.