Sentiero 4 Luglio SkyMarathon (SkyMarathon 4th July Footpath) is a skyrunning event created in 1994 at Santicolo di Corteno Golgi by Giacomo Salvadori. Its main claim is "a real stairway to the sky".

History

Three times trial world championship (2003, 2004, 2007), for a few years (1999, 2011, 2012 and 2013) was organized in collaboration with Aprica (SO); from 2014 is again organized only by Corteno Golgi (BS). It consists of two distances: classical marathon and half marathon (this last, since 2000).^[1]

Best male marathon racers

year	participant	country	total time (h:min:sec)
1994	Adriano Salvadori	Italy	4:27:59
1995	Fabio Meraldi	Italy	3:58:59
1996	Mauro Gatta	Italy	3:43:17
1997	Mauro Gatta	Italy	3:45:08
1998	Mauro Gatta	Italy	3:41:29
1999	Mauro Gatta	Italy	4:32:29
2000	Fabio Meraldi	Italy	4:22:43
2001	Bruno Brunod	Italy	4:11:39
2002	Dennis Brunod	Italy	4:17:02
2003	Mario Poletti	Italy	4:08:24
2004	Fabio Bonfanti	Italy	4:16:36
2005	Fabio Bonfanti	Italy	4:14:38
2006	Ettore Girardi	Italy	4:21:58
2007	Andrew Symonds	United Kingdom	4:15:11
2008	Paolo Gotti	Italy	4:25:06
2009	Jessed Hernandez	Spain	4:20:48
2010	not held
2011	Titta Scalet	Italy	4:21:56
2012	Paolo Gotti and Tadei Pivk	Italy	4:40:20
2013	Tadei Pivk	Italy	4:10:17
2014	Tadei Pivk	Italy	4:14:46
2015	Tadei Pivk	Italy	4:21:19
2016	Tadei Pivk	Italy	4:15:09
2017	Marco De Gasperi	Italy	4:16:46
2018	Cristian Minoggio	Italy	4:13:55

Best female marathon racers

year	participant	country	total time (h:min:sec)
1996	Gisella Bendotti	Italy	5:20:10
1997	Morena Paieri	Italy	5:19:04
1998	Morena Paieri	Italy	4:47:42
1999	Morena Paieri Gloriana Pellissier	Italy	5:52:50
2000	Gloriana Pellissier	Italy	5:32:06
2001	Michela Benzoni	Italy	5:39:57
2002	Corinne Favre	France	5:24:30
2003	Corinne Favre	France	5:28:03
2004	Emanuela Brizio	Italy	5:29:44
2005	Emanuela Brizio	Italy	5:10:43
2006	Gloriana Pellissier	Italy	5:11:05
2007	Corinne Favre	France	5:18:21
2008	Corinne Favre Pierangela Baronchelli	France  Italy	5:29:09
2009	Emanuela Brizio	Italy	5:12:37
2010	not held
2011	Emanuela Brizio	Italy	5:14:59
2012	Emanuela Brizio	Italy	5:40:50
2013	Silvia Serafini	Italy	5:10:10
2014	Emanuela Brizio	Italy	5:25:00
2015	Emanuela Brizio	Italy	5:24:07
2016	Denisa Iolena Dragomir	Romania	5:27:13
2017	Denisa Iolena Dragomir	Romania	5:15:55
2018	Denisa Iolena Dragomir	Romania	5:14:03

References

Bibliography

• Proloco Corteno Golgi - Sentiero 4 Luglio, quando l'amore si fa corsa (photobook, 2003)
• Proloco Corteno Golgi - Sortilegi di Vallecamonica, arte cultura natura sport turismo sul versante soleggiato delle Alpi Centrali (yearly magazine, since 1999)
• Giacomo Salvadori (Liberedizioni) - Lassù, tra sogno e realtà - Genesi e realizzazione del Sentiero 4 Luglio, del Bivacco Davide e della Maratona del Cielo (photobook, 2017)

External links

• Maratona del cielo