Francesco Roccati

Francesco Roccati was an Italian marathon runner active between the World Wars. A Torino native and Michelin worker, he achieved his first big success at 23 in 1931 by winning the Italian championship in Torino in 2-48:12.2. Roccati ran the 1932 Olympic marathon but did not finish, and won Italian marathon titles in 1938 and 1939, both times in Carpi. On 15 October 1939, in Milano, he set his personal best of 2-35:24, breaking 2-40 for the first time. He won a fourth national title in August 1942, recording 2-49:45.2.

Personal Best: Mar – 2-35:24 (1939).