Renato Canova is an Italian athletics coach. Biography Renato Canova is well known for coaching Kenyan-born Qatari Saif Saaeed Shaheen (3000m steeplechase world record holder) along with a plethora of other great athletes including 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, 2010 World Half-Marathon Champion, and WR holder at the 15 km, 20 km and Half Marathon distances), 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 medalist), Caleb Ndiku (2014 World Indoor 3000m Champion, 2015 World Championships 5000m silver medalist), Ronald Kwemoi (World Junior Record Holder of 1500m), Irene Cheptai (World Champion in Cross Country 2017), and Geoffrey Kirui (2017 World Championships marathon gold medalist). 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). At the 2017 Fukuoka Marathon, Sondre Nordstad Moen, an athlete from Norway who was coached by him following the Olympic Games in Rio, surprised the athletic world, winning against some of the best Ugandan and Kenyan athletes in a new European Record of 2:05:48. 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 finished in 2:03:06, the fastest debut marathon of all-time and the second-fastest marathon in history at the time. On 3 June 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