Salami, The Italian of north African origin who finished fourth, 2:14:57, is sponsored by KARHU shoe company, Finland. Unusual to see elites wearing those shoes from that company famous many decades ago but not now. Do they have a super shoe? Perhaps you don’t need a super shoe to run two hours 15 minutes but in any case congratulations to the Italian for running as well as he did and this was his first marathon he said in the commentary after the race. He then thanked his family, his coach and the organizers of the race to make this happen. Very courteous individual. Speaks perfect Italian so I’m assuming he was born in Italy or moved there when he was very young.
The ending kilometers of the Venice Marathon on those long and torturous bridges did not help to run a fast time. The course record of 208 13 was not threatened today.