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

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.

Event	Editions	1st edition	Last edition	Men	Women	Total	Notes
								Tot.				Tot.				Tot.
Olympic Games Y	28	1896	2020	20	8	22	50	4	7	4	15	24	15	26	65	details
World Championships Y	16	1983	2019	8	9	9	26	3	7	10	20	11	16	17	44	details
European Championships Y	24	1934	2018	34	35	25	94	8	9	23	40	42	44	48	134	details
World Indoor Championships	17	1985	2018	4	3	8	15	2	3	4	9	6	6	12	24	details[1][2]
European Indoor Championships Y	38	1966	2021	21	25	22	68	13	12	11	36	34	37	33	104	details[3]
World Cup	13	1977	2018	1	5	7	13	0	4	1	5	1	9	8	18	details
European Cup	36[4]	1965	2017	52	63	74	189	8	15	37	60	60	78	111	249	details
Mediterranean Games	18	1951	2018	114	85	74	274	60	69	46	173	174	154	120	448	details
Universiade	29	1959	2017	34	30	45	109	13	16	11	40	47	45	57	149	details
Military World Games	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).

Men

Vittorio Visini, with 67 caps, is the Italian athlete with most appearances in the 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	6	46
20	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
	Carlo Mattioli	Racewalking	1954	1978–1991	2	2	2
	Marco Martino	Discus throw	1968	1983–1993	2	1	3
	Gennaro Di Napoli	Middle distance running	1968	1988–2002	4	3	4
32	Alessandro Lambruschini	3000 metres steeplechase	1951	1985–1998	4	3	4	40
33	Giuseppe Buttari	110 metres hurdles	1951	1971–1980	–	2	2	39
	Diego Fortuna	Discus throw	1968	1995–2005	4	2	1
	Sandro Bellucci	Racewalking	1955	1974–1991	3	2	4
	Ennio Preatoni	Sprint	1944	1963–1972	–	3	3

Women

Marisa Masullo (79) and Agnese Maffeis (73) are the Italian women with more appearances.^[7][8]

	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	2004-2021	5	2	5	52
9	Daniela Ferrian	Sprint	1961	1982–1993	2	1	1	51
10	Donata Govoni	Sprint	1944	1961–1975	-	2	4	49

Multiple medalists

  Still active

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

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

Most winning racewalkers

#	Athlete	Olympics			World Ch.			World Ind. Ch.			Eur. Ch.			Eur. Ind. Ch.			World Cup			Eur. Cup			Total
1	Annarita Sidoti	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	1	1	3	1	3	2	0	8	6	2
2	Maurizio Damilano	1	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	2	4	2	-	-	-	6	7	4
3	Elisabetta Perrone	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	3	4	1	4	10	2
4	Erica Alfridi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	2	1	2	2	0	4	5	2
5	Marco De Luca	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	2	2	3	4	3	4
6	Abdon Pamich	1	0	1	–	–	–	-	-	-	2	1	0	-	-	-	1	0	3	-	-	-	4	1	4
7	Ivano Brugnetti	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	0	3	3	1
8	Antonella Palmisano	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	1	3	2	3
9	Matteo Giupponi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	2	0	3	2	0
10	Ugo Frigerio	3	0	1	–	–	–	-	-	-	–	–	–	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	0	1
11	Rossella Giordano	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	2	0	2	5	0
12	Eleonora Giorgi	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	3	1	2	4	2
13	Sandro Bellucci	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	3	-	-	-	2	3	4
14	Giorgio Rubino	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	2	0	2	3	2
15	Carlo Mattioli	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	1	-	-	-	2	3	2
16	Pino Dordoni	1	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	1	0	0	-	-	-	0	0	1	-	-	-	2	0	1
17	Ileana Salvador	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	3	0	1	2	2	-	-	-	1	6	6
18	Elisa Rigaudo	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	1	0	1	2	2	1	4	4

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

• 2021 Diamond League: Gianmarco Tamberi (high jump)^[9]
• 2022 Diamond League: Gianmarco Tamberi (high jump)^[10]

Italian podiums

Italian team athletes have reached 28 podiums, including 6 victories in the Diamond League.^[11]

Gianmarco Tamberi was the first Italian to win the Diamond League Crown in 2021.^[12]

Gianmarco Tamberi last victory for the team in 2016.

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

  Women results

  Finals

  Diamond League Crown winner

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)
2020	BAUHAUS-galan	Luminosa Bogliolo (100 m ha, 12.88)
2021	Gateshead	Filippo Randazzo (Long jump, 8.11 m (w))		Luminosa Bogliolo (100 m ha, 13.45)
	BAUHAUS-galan		Marcell Jacobs (100 m, 10.05)
	Herculis			Marcell Jacobs (100 m, 9.99)
	Weltklasse Zürich	Gianmarco Tamberi (high jump, 2,34 m)

Olympic Games

Main article: Italy at the Summer Olympics

  Women's medals

21 of the 65 medals came from race walk.^[13]

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
Rio de Janeiro 2016				0
Tokyo 2021	100 m Marcell Jacobs			5
	High jump Gianmarco Tamberi
	20 km walk Massimo Stano
	20 km walk Antonella Palmisano
	4×100 m relay Lorenzo Patta Marcell Jacobs Fausto Desalu Filippo Tortu
	24	15	26	65

Technic commissioners

This is the list of technic commissioners of Italy's national athletics team.^[14]

• 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^[15] (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