Trucco is the winner of the fifth edition of the Genoa Pesto World Championship. The World Champion 2014 is 85 years old, lives in Montoggio near Genoa, and prepares Pesto using an old family mortar. She passed the first selection (from 100 competitors to 10 finalists) and then won against the other nine finalists.
At the second place Angelo Vanagolli and third Candida Grosso. The other finalists are Federico Bonzi, Bruno Canepa, Paolo Brovia, Luca Bernava, Mirco Chiavarini, Massimiliano Cresta e Fabrizio Migliorini. Among them, three IT programmers, an engineer and a nuclear physician.
Genoa Pesto World Championship is an extraordinary event in an atmosphere of joy and participation, accompanied by the most famous and beloved voice of football, the journalist Bruno Pizzul, with more than 2,000 people, including competitors, judges and International guests. Important international presence, the countries represented were: United States, Great Britain, France, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Lebanon, Finland, Northern Ireland and Japan.
The competitor coming from further arrived from Richmond, California, the closest coming from via dei Macelli di Soziglia, an alley in the Genoa historical center.
Also the jury was an international one thanks to the presence of gastronome experts coming from England, French, Netherlands and Norway. The jury evaluated the 100 mortar made Pesto prepared in the morning and they chose the winner among the 10 finalists Pesto prepared in the afternoon.

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Top 10 finalists

1 Alfonsina Trucco
2 Angelo Vanagolli
3 Candida Grosso
4 Massimiliano Cresta
5 Bruno Canepa
6 Federico Bonzi
7 Mirco Chiaverini
8 Fabrizio Migliorini
9 Paolo Brovia
10 Luca Bernava
The ranking of the 100 competitors by group

Group 1

1 Federico Bonzi
2 Isabel Carrettero
3 Serena Oliva
4 Alda Bernardelli
5 Ann Plough
6 Sejdiraj Boraldo
7 Luigi Scotto Busato
8 Nevio Gurreri
9 Marco Branchetti
10 Luca Brignole

Group 2

1 Bruno Canepa
2 Rossana Ravera Valle
3 Daniela Giordani
4 Maurizio Berisso
5 Craig Wales
6 Giacomo Trucco
7 Maria Livia Merlo
8 Eugenio Torre
9 John Chiozza
10 Lasse Orheim Pedersen

Group 3

1 Paolo Brovia
2 Giovanni Baghino
3 Flavio Corazza
4 Yuri Militello
5 Giuliana Granzarollo
6 Fabio Wicki
7 Giorgio Cuffari
8 Fabrizio Siragusa
9 Francesca Polo
10 Luis Urias

Group 4

1 Alfonsina Trucco
2 Massimo Biale
3 Marco Benvenuto
4 Eva Kleser
5 Domenico Capone
6 Iñaki Rojo Garmendia
7 Daniela Dau
8 Maria Rosaria Cardinale
9 Vittoria Pizzamiglio
10 Sergio Monaco

Group 5

1 Massimiliano Cresta
2 Alfio Longo
3 Simone Viola
4 Vittorio Boveri
5 Mauro Olcese
6 Carlo Girgenti
7 Massimo Tosetti
8 Michele Vesan
9 Clare Rainey
10 Shagufta Ahmed

Group 6

1 Luca Bernava
2 Federico Consonno
3 Claudio Bozzo
4 Carmelo Infantino
5 Matteo Rizzitano
6 Agim Bregu
7 Marco Pedemonte
8 Gabriele Gaspare
9 Elena Stecher
10 Vittoria Costella

Group 7

1 Mirco Chiaverini
2 Donato Torres
3 Johanna Tikkanen
4 Paolo Pizzorno
5 Pietro Marcello Quartirolo
6 Sophie Pillod
7 Cinzia Donati
8 Maria Rosa Torre
9 Riccardo Campi
10 Mauro Tasso

Group 8

1 Candida Grosso
2 John Siska
3 Daniela Vettori
4 Massimo Biscioni
5 Maria Alessandra Gazzo
6 Rossella Campice
7 Rocco Tinnirello
8 Roberto Ciccarelli
9 Simone Vesuviano
10 Gianni Ghione

Group 9

1 Angelo Vanagolli
2 Martina Tosetti
3 Simone Bertolini
4 Fabio Bracchi
5 Martin Carelli
6 Marzio Gurreri
7 Giacomo Delbalzo
8 Giuliana Zignego
9 Golda Eid
10 Grazia Borghetti

Group 10

1 Fabrizio Migliorini
2 Roberto Mercati
3 Giulia Sciaccaluga
4 Marino Salsi
5 Gianluca Lazzotti
6 Alessandro Lamiani
7 Iñigo Castro Saenz
8 Alessia Saro
9 Gervasio Spaterna
10 Andrea Geara