Renato Canova

Renato Canova is an Italian athletics coach.

He coaches or has coached the Kenyan-born Qatari Saif Saaeed Shaheen (3000m steeplechase world record holder), 10,000 meter runner Nicholas Kemboi (26:30.03), Dorcus Inzikuru (2005 World 3000m steeplechase Champion), Moses Mosop (2005 World Championships 10000m bronze medalist, 2007 World Cross Country Championships silver medalist, and 25000m and 30000m world record holder in 1:12:47.4 and 1:26:25.4), Florence Kiplagat (2009 World Cross Country Champion and 2010 World Half-Marathon Champion, and WR holder of 15 km, 20 km and Half Marathon), Wilson Kiprop (2010 World Half-Marathon Champion and 10000m altitude world record holder in 27:26.93), Silas Kiplagat (2011 World Championships 1500m silver medalist), Sylvia Kibet (2009 and 2011 World Championships 5000m silver), Imane Merga (2011 World Cross Country Champion and 2011 World Championships 10000m bronze medalist), Abel Kirui (2009 and 2011 World Marathon Champion and Olympic silver medallist), Caleb Ndiku (World Indoor Champion 2014 of 3000m, and silver medal in WCh 2015 in 5000m), Ronald Kwemoi (World Junior Record Holder of 1500m) and Irene Cheptai (World Champion in Cross Country 2017). At the Olympic Games 2012 in London, athletes he coached won one silver (Abel Kirui, Marathon) and two bronze medals (Wilson Kipsang, Marathon, and Thomas Longosiwa, 5000m).

Canova's athletes have won many medals in top international middle and long distance competitions. Some of his other world champion athletes include Christopher Koskei (1999 3000m steeplechase), Paul Kosgei (2002 Half-Marathon), and Saif Saaeed Shaheen (2003 and 2005 3000m steeplechase). At the 2010 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Nanning, his athletes Florence Kiplagat and Wilson Kiprop became world champions in a 22-minute period. At the 2011 Boston Marathon, Moses Mosop recorded 2:03:06, the fastest debut marathon of all-time and the second-fastest marathon in history at the time. On June 3, 2011, Mosop set both the 25000m (1:12:25.4) and 30000m (1:26:47.4) world records in a special race at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon. On 16 February 2014 in Barcelona, his athlete Florence Kiplagat set world records at 20 km (1:01:56) and half marathon (1:05:12). At the same race on 15 February 2015, she set 3 world records in the same race: 15 km (46:14), previously held by Tirunesh Dibaba (46:26), and her two records of 20 km (1:01:54) and half marathon (1:05:09). Canova's latest athletes to win a world championship were Caleb Ndiku (2014 World Indoor Championships 3000m) and Irene Cheptai (World Cross Country Championships 2017 in Kampala).

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