In the year of the restart, the protagonists of five stories in the field of sport wanted to put themselves to the test in a variety of adventures, from trail running to cycling, from boating to motorcycling and outdoor. Together with the winners of the Garmin Beat Yesterday Awards, some prominent names on the Italian sports scene also took to the stage, such as Michele Cannoni from Team Luna Rossa, mountaineer Hervé Barmasse from Valle d'Aosta, the 2008 Varese cycling world champion Alessandro Ballan and motorcyclist Alessandro Botturi. Presenting the award for a very special project was TV presenter Matteo Viviani. "Without a shadow of a doubt, 2021 was a very challenging year. After months in which the world had to stop, it started again with even more energy and a great desire to leave the difficulties behind. And this was also the case for the protagonists of our Garmin Beat Yesterday Awards 2021,' said Stefano Viganò, CEO of Garmin Italia. 'Five worlds, five stories, five personalities and five goals, with their relative fears and complexities. All united by one thing: passion and the will to succeed'. In particular, the winners of the 2021 edition of the Garmin Beat Yesterday Awards were: Marco Martinez, who ventured by boat along the Arno river and headed south, then eastwards to Turkey; Enrica Gouthier, who completed the UTMB (Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc), covering 170 km for 10.000 metres of positive altitude difference; Wolfango Poggi, who reached Belgrade starting from Florence in eight days on his bike; Domitilla Quadrelli, who in her sixth month of pregnancy decided to sign up for one of the toughest and at the same time most exciting races on the off-road motorcycling scene: the Swank Rally of Sardinia; and finally, Roberto Carnevali, who for 21 years has been facing the biggest challenge of his life, namely trying to build a relationship of communication and mutual understanding with his son Manu, who suffers from an autism spectrum disorder. "After so many years, there are indeed many peaks we have climbed together. This experimentation we do together through physical activity has strengthened our relationship, built a bridge, offered us a new way to generate empathy between us. And we would like to introduce it to people who, like us, have to deal with people with autism,' Carnevali said.
