Italy national athletics team

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

Ugo Frigerio, four medals (three gold), at the Olympic Games.

Medal count

When there is Y is update to 13 March 2019

Event	Editions	1st edition	Last edition	Men	Women	Total	Notes
								Tot.				Tot.				Tot.
Olympic Games Y	27	1896	2016	16	8	22	46	3	7	4	14	19	15	26	60	details
World Championships Y	16	1983	2017	8	9	9	26	3	6	8	15	11	15	17	43	details
European Championships	23	1934	2016	32	36	22	90	8	9	20	37	40	45	42	127	details
World Indoor Championships Y	17	1985	2018	4	3	8	15	2	3	4	9	6	6	12	24	details [1][2]
European Indoor Championships Y	38	1966	2019	19	21	20	60	13	12	12	37	32	33	32	97	details [3]
World Cup Y	13	1977	2018	1	5	7	13	0	4	1	5	1	9	8	18	details
European Cup Y	36[4]	1965	2017	52	63	74	189	8	15	37	60	60	78	111	249	details
Mediterranean Games Y	18	1951	2018	114	85	74	274	60	69	46	173	174	154	120	448	details
Universiade Y	29	1959	2017	34	30	45	109	13	16	11	40	47	45	57	149	details
Military World Games Y	6	1995	2015	15	13	8	26	2	6	6	14	17	19	14	40	details

Caps

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

   Still active

Men

Vittorio Visini, with 67 caps, is the Italian athlete with most appearances in national team of all-time.[5][6]

	Athlete	Event	Born	Period	Caps
					World Ch.	Olympics	European Ch.	Tot.
1	Vittorio Visini	Racewalking	1945	1965–1981	–	3	5	67
2	Alessandro Andrei	Shot put	1959	1981–1995	4	2	2	63
3	Maurizio Damilano	Racewalking	1957	1977–1991	3	4	4	60
	Nicola Vizzoni	Hammer throw	1973	1995–2013	9	4	5
5	Giovanni Evangelisti	Long jump	1961	1980–1994	3	3	4	59
	Marco Montelatici	Shot put	1953	1972–1986	–	1	2
7	Paolo Dal Soglio	Shot put	1970	1992–2012	5	2	2	58
8	Dario Badinelli	Triple jump	1960	1981–1993	1	1	2	56
9	Pietro Mennea	Sprint	1952-2013	1969–1988	1	5	4	52
	Sergio Liani	110 metres hurdles	1943	1965–1979	–	2	4
	Silvano Simeon	Discus throw	1945–2010	1966–1982	–	2	4
12	Stefano Tilli	Sprint	1962	1983–2000	5	4	4	51
13	Adolfo Consolini	Discus throw	1917–1969	1938–1960	–	4	5	50
14	Armando De Vincentiis	Discus throw	1943	1969–1983	–	2	3	48
	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	Sprint	1963	1980–1990	2	2	2	51
16	Silvano Meconi	Discus throw	1931	1955–1969	–	3	2	47
	Renato Dionisi	Pole vault	1947	1964–1978	–	2	2
18	Giuseppe Cindolo	Middle distance running	1945	1965–1976	–	4	5	46
19	Fabrizio Donato	Triple jump	1976	2000-	4	5	5	45
19	Sergio Bello	400 metres	1942	1961–1972	–	3	4	45
21	Giampaolo Urlando	Hammer throw	1945	1965–1984	1	3	2	44
22	Abdon Pamich	Racewalking	1933	1954–1973	–	5	6	43
	Roberto Ribaud	400 metres	1961	1983–1987	2	1	2
24	Daniele Fontecchio	110 metres hurdles	1960	1980–1986	1	1	2	42
	Carlo Lievore	Javelin Throw	1937	1956–1971	–	2	3
	Stefano Mei	Middle distance running	1963	1981–1994	2	2	2
	Giovanni De Benedictis	Racewalking	1968	1987–2004	6	5	4
28	Livio Berruti	Sprint	1939	1957–1968	–	4	3	41
	Marco Martino	Discus throw	1968	1983–1993	2	1	3
	Gennaro Di Napoli	Middle distance running	1968	1988–2002	4	3	4
31	Alessandro Lambruschini	3000 metres steeplechase	1951	1985–1998	4	3	4	40
31	Giuseppe Buttari	110 metres hurdles	1951	1971–1980	–	2	2	39
	Diego Fortuna	Discus throw	1968	1995–2005	4	2	1
	Ennio Preatoni	Sprint	1944	1963–1972	–	3	3

Women

Marisa Masullo (79) and Agnese Maffeis (73) are the Italian women with more appearances.[7]

	Athlete	Event	Born	Period	Caps
					World Ch.	Olympics	European Ch.	Tot.
1	Marisa Masullo	Sprint	1959	1977–1993	3	3	4	79
2	Agnese Maffeis	Shot put and Discus throw	1965	1985–2003	2	3	4	73
3	Sara Simeoni	High jump	1953	1970–1986	4	–	5	67
	Erica Rossi	400 metres	1955	1974–1989	2	2	2
5	Gabriella Dorio	800 m and 1500 m	1957	1973–1991	3	2	3	65
6	Agnese Possamai	Middle distance running	1953	1977–1988	–	–	–	60
7	Antonella Capriotti	Long and Triple jump	1962	1980–1997	3	2	–	55
8	Chiara Rosa	Shot put	1983	2004-2019	5	2	5	51
	Daniela Ferrian	Sprint	1961	1982–1993	2	1	1

Multiple medalists

In the table athletes that won at least two gold medals. In bold still active.

#	Athlete	Olympics			World Ch.			World Indoor Ch.			European Ch.			European Indoor Ch.			Total
1	Sara Simeoni	1	2	0	–	–	–	-	-	-	1	0	2	4	0	0	6	2	2	10
2	Pietro Mennea	1	0	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	3	2	1	1	0	0	5	3	4	12
3	Eddy Ottoz	0	0	1	–	–	–	-	-	-	2	0	0	3	0	0	5	0	1	6
4	Fiona May	0	2	0	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	4	4	2	10
5	Maurizio Damilano	1	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	4	3	2	9
6	Annarita Sidoti	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	1	4	1	1	6
7	Adolfo Consolini	1	1	0	–	–	–	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	5
8	Alberto Cova	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	5
9	Agnese Possamai	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	3	2	0	5
10	Abdon Pamich	1	0	1	–	–	–	-	-	-	2	1	0	-	-	-	3	1	1	5
11	Gennaro Di Napoli	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	1	0	4
12	Stefano Baldini	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	6
13	Ugo Frigerio	3	0	1	–	–	–	-	-	-	–	–	–	-	-	-	3	0	1	6
14	Gelindo Bordin	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	6
15	Gianmarco Tamberi	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	3
16	Fabrizio Donato	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	0	2	2	1	5
17	Francesco Panetta	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	4
18	Andrew Howe	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	1	4
19	Salvatore Antibo	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	1	4
20	Stefano Tilli	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	1	1	4
21	Luigi Beccali	1	0	1	–	–	–	-	-	-	1	0	1	-	-	-	2	0	2	4
22	Gabriella Dorio	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	1	3
23	Libania Grenot	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	3
24	Ivano Brugnetti	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2
25	Pino Dordoni	1	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	1	0	0	-	-	-	2	0	0	2

Italian podiums in the Diamond League

Italian team have reached 22 podiums, including three victories in the Diamond League.[8]

Gianmarco Tamberi last victory for the team in 2016.

Elena Vallortigara 4th in high jump final standings in 2018.

   Finals

Edition	Meeting	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2010	Memorial Van Damme		Antonietta Di Martino (high jump, 1.98 m)
2012	Weltklasse Zürich	Fabrizio Donato (triple jump, 17.29 m)
2013	Shanghai Golden Grand Prix			Yadisleidy Pedroso (400 m hs, 54.54)
	Golden Gala		Daniele Greco (triple jump, 17.04 m)
	Herculis		Daniele Greco (triple jump, 17.25 m)
2015	Bislett Games		Marco Fassinotti (high jump, 2.33 m NR)
	London Grand Prix	Marco Fassinotti (high jump, 2.31 m)	Gianmarco Tamberi (high jump, 2.28 m)
	Stockholm Bauhaus Athletics			Gianmarco Tamberi (high jump, 2.29 m)
2016	Doha Diamond League			Marco Fassinotti (high jump, 2.29 m)
	Prefontaine Classic			Alessia Trost (high jump, 1.92 m SB)
	Golden Gala			Gianmarco Tamberi (high jump, 2.30 m SB)
	Stockholm Bauhaus Athletics		Alessia Trost (high jump, 1.90 m)
				Libania Grenot (400 m, 52.62)
	Herculis	Gianmarco Tamberi (high jump, 2.39 m NR)
	Meeting de Paris			Alessia Trost (high jump, 1.93 m SB)
2017	Meeting de Rabat		Gianmarco Tamberi (high jump, 2.27 m)
2018	Golden Gala			Filippo Tortu (100 m, 10.04)
				Elena Vallortigara (high jump, 1.94 m)
	London Grand Prix		Elena Vallortigara (high jump, 2.02 m PB)
	Memorial Van Damme			Gianmarco Tamberi (high jump, 2.31 m)
				Yadisleidy Pedroso (400 m hs, 56.12)

Olympic Games

17 of the 60 medals come from race walk, in pink color the women's medals.

Edition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
London 1908		800 metres Emilio Lunghi		1
Stockholm 1912			10 km walk Fernando Altimani	1
Antwerp 1920	3 km walk Ugo Frigerio			4
	10 km walk Ugo Frigerio
			3000 metres steeplechase Ernesto Ambrosini
			Marathon Valerio Arri
Paris 1924	3 km walk Ugo Frigerio			2
		Marathon Romeo Bertini
Los Angeles 1932	1500 metres Luigi Beccali			3
			4X100 metres relay Giuseppe Castelli Gabriele Salviati Ruggero Maregatti Edgardo Toetti
			50 km walk Ugo Frigerio
Berlin 1936		800 metres Mario Lanzi		5
			1500 metres Luigi Beccali
		4X100 metres relay Orazio Mariani Gianni Caldana Elio Ragni Tullio Gonnelli
			Discus throw Giorgio Oberweger
	100 metres hurdles Ondina Valla
London 1948			4X100 metres relay Michele Tito Enrico Perucconi Carlo Monti Antonio Siddi	5
	Discus throw Adolfo Consolini	Discus throw Giuseppe Tosi
		Shot put Amelia Piccinini
		Discus throw Edera Cordiale
Helsinki 1952	50 km walk Pino Dordoni			2
		Discus throw Adolfo Consolini
Rome 1960	200 metres Livio Berruti			3
			50 km walk Abdon Pamich
			100 metres Giuseppina Leone
Tokyo 1964			400 metres hurdles Salvatore Morale	2
	50 km walk Abdon Pamich
Mexico City 1968			110 metres hurdles Eddy Ottoz	2
			Triple jump Giuseppe Gentile
Munich 1972			200 metres Pietro Mennea	2
			1500 metres Paola Pigni
Montreal 1976		High jump Sara Simeoni		1
Moscow 1980	200 metres Pietro Mennea			4
			4x400 metres relay Roberto Tozzi Mauro Zuliani Stefano Malinverni Pietro Mennea
	20 km walk Maurizio Damilano
	High jump Sara Simeoni
Los Angeles 1984	10000 metres Alberto Cova			7
			20 km walk Maurizio Damilano
			50 km walk Sandro Bellucci
			Long jump Giovanni Evangelisti
	Shot put Alessandro Andrei
	1500 metres Gabriella Dorio
		High jump Sara Simeoni
Seul 1988		10000 metres Salvatore Antibo		3
	Marathon Gelindo Bordin
			20 km walk Maurizio Damilano
Barcelona 1992			20 km walk Giovanni De Benedictis	1
Atlanta 1996			3000 metres steeplechase Alessandro Lambruschini	4
			5000 metres Roberta Brunet
		10 km walk Elisabetta Perrone
		Long jump Fiona May
Sydney 2000		Hammer throw Nicola Vizzoni		2
		Long jump Fiona May
Athens 2004	Marathon Stefano Baldini			3
	20 km walk Ivano Brugnetti
			Pole vault Giuseppe Gibilisco
Beijing 2008	50 km walk Alex Schwazer			2
			20 km walk Elisa Rigaudo
London 2012			Triple jump Fabrizio Donato	1
	19	15	26	60

Technic commissioners

This is the list of technic commissioners of Italy national athletics team.[9]

• 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[10] (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 Francesco Uguagliati (men/women)
• 2013/2016: Massimo Magnani
• 2017/2018: Elio Locatelli (2)
• 2019-: Antonio La Torre

See also

• Athletics in Italy
• Naturalized athletes of Italy
• Italy national relay team
• Italian team at the running events
• Italy at the Olympics
• Italian records in athletics
• FIDAL Hall of Fame

References

1. "IAAF World Indoor Championships [1985-2016]" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
2. "Verso Sopot: il mondiale degli italiani in numeri – I record di Antonio Ullo, Fabrizio Donato e Paolo Dal Soglio" (in Italian). atleticalive.it. 5 March 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
3. "Annuario 2016 - I campionati Europei indoor" (PDF). fidal.it. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
4. Participations of Italy at Super League: 25 Men, 13 Women and 7 Unified.
5. "La squadra nazionale" (in Italian). fidal.it. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
6. Annuario dell'Atletica 2009. FIDAL. 2009.
7. "Maffeis, mamma atletica" (in Italian). Gazzetta.it. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
8. "Diamond League". iaaf.org. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
9. "Annuario dell'atletica 2010" (PDF) (in Italian). Retrieved 28 July 2017.
10. He was the housband of Paola Pigni.

External links

• Italy Athletics at Summer Olympics
• (in Italian) MANIFESTAZIONI INTERNAZIONALI ITALIANI SUL PODIO – 1908-2011