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Italy national athletics team

The Italy national athletics team represents Italy at the international athletics competitions such as Olympic Games or World Athletics championships.

Medal count

2023 World Athletics Championships

At the 2023 World Athletics Championships held in Budapest, Hungary, from August 19 to 27, Italy fielded a team of 78 athletes (43 men and 35 women). The team achieved a total of four medals, ranking 13th overall:

  • Gold:
  • Gianmarco Tamberi in the Men's High Jump
  • Silver:
  • Leonardo Fabbri in the Men's Shot Put
  • Bronze:
  • Men's 4 × 100 metres relay team (Roberto Rigali, Marcell Jacobs, Lorenzo Patta, Filippo Tortu)
  • Bronze:
  • Antonella Palmisano in the Women's 20 Kilometres Walk

2024 Summer Olympics

During the 2024 Summer Olympics, Italy's athletics team continued to demonstrate strong performances:

  • Men's Long Jump:
  • Mattia Furlani secured a silver medal with a leap of 8.34 meters.
  • Men's Triple Jump:
  • Andy Díaz earned a bronze medal with a jump of 17.64 meters.
  • Women's Long Jump:
  • Larissa Iapichino narrowly missed the podium, finishing fourth with a jump of 6.87 meters.
  • Women's Pole Vault:
  • Elisa Molinarolo achieved a commendable sixth place with a vault of 4.70 meters.

These performances highlight Italy's growing prominence in international athletics, particularly in field events.

Caps

Updated at the 2013 Mediterranean Games (29 June 2013).

Men

Vittorio Visini, with 67 caps, is the Italian athlete with most appearances in the national team of all-time.

Women

Marisa Masullo (79) and Agnese Maffeis (73) are the Italian women with more appearances.

Multiple medalists

Athletes in the table have won at least two gold medals. In bold those still active.

Most winning racewalkers

Where is - he/she never participated because the competition did not exist when he/she was competing. In blod still active athletes.

Diamond League

Italian victories

Italian podiums

Italian team athletes have reached 28 podiums, including 6 victories in the Diamond League.

Gianmarco Tamberi was the first Italian to win the Diamond League Crown in 2021.

Olympic Games

21 of the 65 medals came from race walk.

Technic commissioners

This is the list of technic commissioners of Italy's national athletics team.

  • 1933/34: Ove Andersen, Martti Jarvinen, Paavo Karikko, Veikko Renko (men)
  • 1935/39: Boyd Comstock (men/women)
  • 1946/47: Lidia Bongiovanni (women)
  • 1946/61: Giorgio Oberweger (men)
  • 1962/63: Lauro Bononcini (men): Augusto Lorenzoni (women)
  • 1964/68: Giorgio Oberweger (men/women)
  • 1969: Alessandro Calvesi (men): Marcello Pagani (women)
  • 1970: Marcello Pagani (men/women)
  • 1971/74: Bruno Cacchi (men/ women)
  • 1975/86: Enzo Rossi (men); Sandro Giovannelli (women)
  • 1987/88: Enzo Rossi (men): Elio Locatelli (women)
  • 1989/94: Elio Locatelli (men/women)
  • 1995/00: Giampaolo Lenzi (men); Dino Ponchio (women)
  • 2001/04: Roberto Frinolli (men); Augusto D’Agostino (women)
  • 2005: Nicola Silvaggi (men/women)
  • 2008/2012 (men/women)
  • 2013/2016: Massimo Magnani
  • 2017/2018: Elio Locatelli (2)
  • 2019-: Antonio La Torre

See also

References

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