Sergio Muto is the winner of the fourth edition of the Genoa Pesto World Championship! He’s 58 years old, born in Cosenza (Calabria, Italy) and living in Germany since 1976 where he manages a delicatessen. After winning a Pesto preliminary competition in Stuttgart in 2008, for several years  he has specialized in the mortar made pesto,  so he actually gives courses on that in Germany.

The other finalist in addition to Sergio Muto are:  Massimo Tosetti (businessman from Genoa), Roberto Mercati (communication consultant from Lecco), Luca Bernava (IT expert from Genoa), Elin Kvamme (the Norwegian champion came from Bergen), Alexandre Gleich (consultant from Lyon), Gennady Gabrielan (entrepreneur in Moscow), Massimiliano Cresta (nuclear physicist from Genoa), Gian Maria Valle (doctor from Genoa), and Daniela Dau (young Genovese pediatrician).

The Championship was held in an atmosphere of great emotional and competitive participation, accompanied by the most famous and beloved voice of football, the journalist Bruno Pizzul. There were more than 2,000 people, including competitors, judges and guests. Important international presence, the countries represented were: Argentina, United States, Canada, Russia, Great Britain, France, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Ukraine, Belgium and Japan.

The competitor coming from further arrived from Buenos Aires, 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 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 Sergio Muto
2 Massimiliano Cresta
3 GianMaria Valle
4 Alexandre Gleich
5 Daniela Dau
6 Elin Kvamme
7 Massimo Tosetti
8 Roberto Mercati
9 Luca Bernava
10 Gennady  Grabrielyan

 

 

The ranking of the 100 competitors by group

 

Group 1

1 Massimo Tosetti
2 Paolo Pizzorno
3 Angelo Bondioli
4 Maurizio Berisso
5 Daniela Giordani
6 Fabrizio Panza
7 Giudici Giuliana
8 Mirco Tranchida
9 Tommaso Camisa
10 Adele Antonini

 

Group 2

1 Roberto Mercati
2 Kanapathy Pushpananthan
3 Maria Rosa Torre
4 Andrea Cogorno
5 Maria Livia  Merlo
6 Francesco Abbadessa
7 Federico Consonno
8 Petra Bianchi
9 Pietro Cimino
10 Letizia Ripandelli

 

Group 3

1 Luca Bernava
2 Giovanni Baghino (equal)
2 Luca Naula (equal)
3 Riccardo Bruzzone
4  Eleonora Canessa
5 Roberto Rossi
6 Ivana Caneddu
7 Cinzia Donati
8 Rossana Ravera
9 Grazia Borghetti

 

Group 4

1 Elin Kvamme
2 Stefano Ferro
3 Piero Pala
4 Andrea Ivo Noferi
5 Guido Frosi
6 Sara Ottogalli
7 Susanna Passerone
8 Domenico Sartori
9 Daniela Vassallo (equal)
9 Vittoria Agrelli (equal)

 

Group 5

1 Alexandre Gleich
2 Massimo Durante
3 Marco Aicardi
4 Sergio Taraschi
5 Fabio Vanello
6 Pietro Bertucci
7 Federico Bonzi
8 Joanna Rothenberg
9 Daniela Bulleri (equal)
9 Hank Balle (equal)

 

Group 6

1 Gennady  Grabrielyan
2 Bettina Mettica
3 Niccolò Titia Rizzi
4 Gervasio Spaterna
5 Michele Vesan
6 Patrizia Traverso
7 Giuliana Zignego
8 Francesca Salemi (equal)
8 Leonardo Fumarola (equal)
9 Paolo Roncaglia

 

Group 7

1 Massimiliano Cresta
2 Bruno Canepa
3 Marino Copetti
4 Marina Gandolfo
5 Maria Cardinale (equal)
5 Jane Yoo (equal)
6 Mauro Elsi
7 Albina Deiana
8 Santa Panucci
9 Francesco Codeglia

 

Group 8

1 GianMaria Valle
2 Paolo Brovia
3 Luigi Guelfo
4 Roberto Lanzani
5 Michele Meoni
6 Cristina Orilia (equal)
6 Inigo Castro Saenz (equal)
7 Maria Merello
8 Attilio Norzi
9 Edda Fossati

 

Group 9

1 Sergio Muto
2 Rossella Campice
3 Alfonsina Trucco
4 Tiziano Pibernik (equal)
4 Inaki Rojo Garmendia (equal)
5 Cinzia Pennestri
6 Roberto Ciccarelli
7 Giancarlo Marabotti
8 Luciana Frisone
9 Giuseppe Bruzzone

 

Group 10

1 Daniela Dau
2 Giacomo Delbalzo
3 Paola Elisabetta Cereda
4 Marco Pedemonte
5 Marco Branchetti
6 Fabrizio Ceccarelli (equal)
6 Patrizia Cicala (equal)
7 Angelo Vanagolli
8 Seeberger Horst
9 Sergio Monaco