Career
He is the current indoor world record holder in the M95 60 metres. He also held the indoor world record for the triple jump and outdoor world records in M95 age group for long jump and triple jump. He has 46 Italian National Championships and 13 national records.
He holds the outdoor Discus European record too,
After serving in the Italian Air Force during World World War II, he spent his career as a men"s tailor.
Marzia is now a top masters marathoner. At the suggestion of the brothers Paul and Julian Costantini, he started masters athletics in the late 1980s.
He is coached by Graziano Bacchiocchi and then in 2010, Mauro Angelini coached him to high jump. After turning 95 in 2011, he became the first 95-year-old athlete to surpass 2 meters for the long jump and 4 meters for the triple jump.
He drives himself the 25 km from his home in Sant"Ippolito to the training facility in Fano.
He lives by two mottos. "Foreign me sport is life" and "curiosity drives me to live."
At age 97 he enrolled in the University of the Third Age in Fossombrone. At the invitation of Professor Ario Federici, he has given the opening lecture in Kinesiology at the University of Urbino for the last two years.
