Italy at the World Athletics Indoor Championships

Italy has participated in all the World Athletics Indoor Championships since the beginning in 1985 IAAF World Indoor Games. Italy won a total of 24 medals (6 gold, 6 silver and 12 bronze).[1] Italy is 21st on the all time medal table.

Italy at the
World Athletics Indoor Championships
WA codeITA
National federationFIDAL
Websitewww.fidal.it
Medals
Ranked 21st
Gold
6
Silver
6
Bronze
12
Total
24
World Athletics Indoor Championships appearances (overview)
  • 1985
  • 1987
  • 1989
  • 1991
  • 1993
  • 1995
  • 1997
  • 1999
  • 2001
  • 2003
  • 2004
  • 2006
  • 2008
  • 2010
  • 2012
  • 2014
  • 2016
  • 2018

Medal count

Gennaro Di Napoli, the only Italian athlete to win two gold medals at the World Indoor Athletics Championships.

Italy won 24 medals (6 gold) an ranked 21st in the all-time medal table of the championships.[2][3][4] In six editions the azzurri team has not won any medals.

EditionRank
Paris 1985 1219
Indianapolis 1987 01211
Budapest 1989 00321
Seville 1991 01315
Toronto 1993 10110
Barcelona 1995 1106
Paris 1997 10011
Maebashi 1999 000-
Lisbon 2001 10012
Birmingham 2003 000-
Budapest 2004 000-
Moscow 2006 00128
Valencia 2008 000-
Doha 2010 000-
Istanbul 2012 01017
Sopot 2014 000-
Portland 2016 10010
Birmingham 2018 00124
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Medalists

Ileana Salvador and Giovanni Evangelisti, five bronze medals in two, photographed on their return to Italy with the two world bronze medals won in Seville 1991.
  Women medalists
  No medals
Edition Event Gold Silver Bronze
1985 Paris 3000 metres walk Giuliana Salce
5000 metres walks Maurizio Damilano
3000 metres Agnese Possamai
Long jump Giovanni Evangelisti
1987 Indianapolis 3000 metres walk Giuliana Salce
60 metres Pierfrancesco Pavoni
Long jump Giovanni Evangelisti
1989 Budapest 60 metres Pierfrancesco Pavoni
800 metres Tonino Viali
3000 metres walk Ileana Salvador
1991 Sevilla 5000 metres walk Giovanni De Benedictis
4×400 metres relay Marco Vaccari,
Vito Petrella,
Alessandro Aimar,
Andrea Nuti
Long jump Giovanni Evangelisti
3000 metres walk Ileana Salvador
1993 Toronto 3000 metres Gennaro Di Napoli
3000 metres walk Ileana Salvador
1995 Barcelona 3000 metres Gennaro Di Napoli
4×400 metres relay Fabio Grossi
Andrea Nuti
Roberto Mazzoleni
Ashraf Saber
1997 Paris Long jump Fiona May
1999 Maebashi
2001 Lisbon Triple jump Paolo Camossi
2003 Birmingham
2004 Budapest
2006 Moscow Long jump Andrew Howe
2008 Valencia
2010 Doha
2012 Istanbul High jump Antonietta Di Martino
2014 Sopot
2016 Portland High jump Gianmarco Tamberi
2018 Birmingham High jump Alessia Trost
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1985

The racewalker Giuliana Salce, gold medal in 1985.

Italy participated with 19 competitors, 16 men (but one Roberto Ribaud in 400 m did not stsrt), and 3 women.[4]

  Top eight

Men

Athlete
Antonio Ullo 8
Pierfrancesco Pavoni 14
Stefano Tilli 7
Tonino Viali 6
Riccardo Materazzi 5
Alberto Corvo 6
Stefano Mei 9
Gianni Tozzi 9
Luigi Bertocchi 11
Maurizio Damilano 2
Luca Toso 10
Paolo Borghi 13
Giovanni Evangelisti 3
Mario Lega 10
Marco Montelatici 6

Women

Athlete
Antonella Ratti 6
Agnese Possamai 2
Giuliana Salce 1

1987

Pierfrancesco Pavoni, bronze medal in 60 m at the 1987 edition.

Italy participated with 14 competitors, 9 men and 5 women.[4]

  Top eight

Men

Athlete
Pierfrancesco Pavoni 3
Antonio Ullo 4
Mauro Zuliani 13
Alessandro Lambruschini 8DNF
Luigi Bertocchi 15
Walter Arena 7
Carlo Mattioli 13
Gianni Stecchi 10
Giovanni Evangelisti 3

Women

Athlete
Rossella Tarolo 21
Daniela Ferrian 9
Patrizia Lombardo 11
Antonella Capriotti 8
Giuliana Salce 2

1989

Ileana Salvador, bronze medal in 3000 m race walk at the 1989 edition.

Italy participated with 11 competitors, 8 men and 3 women.[4]

  Top eight

Men

Athlete
Pierfrancesco Pavoni 3
Antonio Ullo 4
Sandro Floris 4
Paolo Catalano 10
Tonino Viali 3
Stefano Mei 8
Giovanni De Benedictis 4
Alessandro Andrei 7

Women

Athlete
Ileana Salvador 3
Antonella Capriotti 5
Agnese Maffeis 12

1991

Giovanni De Benedictis (left), silver medal in 5000 m race walk at the 1991 edition.

Italy participated with 17 competitors, 13 men and 4 women.[4]

  Top eight

Men

Athlete
Antonio Ullo 18
Sandro Floris 7
Paolo Catalano 9
Davide Tirelli 16
Laurent Ottoz 18
Relay team
 Marco Vaccari
 Vito Petrella
 Alessandro Aimar
 Andrea Nuti
3
Giovanni De Benedictis 2
Giovanni Evangelisti 3
Dario Badinelli 7
Alessandro Andrei 14

Women

Athlete
Ileana Salvador 3
Annarita Sidoti DSQ
Antonella Bevilacqua 17
Valentina Uccheddu 7

1993

Antonella Capriotti, fourth place with the national record in the new introduction speciality (first time at this 1993 edition) women's triple jump.

Italy participated with 19 competitors, 14 men and 5 women.[4]

  Top eight

Men

Athlete
Stefano Tilli 16
Marco Menchini 13
Marco Vaccari 17
Giuseppe D'Urso 10
Amos Rota 16
Gennaro Di Napoli 1
Relay team
 Andrea Montanari
 Vito Petrella
 Fabio Grossi
 Alessandro Aimar
6[5]
Roberto Ferrari 15
Andrea Pegoraro 7
Paolo Dal Soglio 5
Luciano Zerbini 6

Women

Athlete
Elisa Rea 11
Ileana Salvador 3
Annarita Sidoti 6
Antonella Bevilacqua 18
Antonella Capriotti 104

1995

Stefano Tilli, semifinalist in 200 m at the 1995 edition.

Italy participated with 17 competitors, 13 men and 4 women.[4]

  Top eight

Men

Athlete
Stefano Tilli 9
Angelo Cipolloni 22
Ashraf Saber 7
Andrea Nuti 25
Marco Chiavarini 19
Massimo Pegoretti 18
Andrea Giocondi 20
Gennaro Di Napoli 1
Relay team
 Fabio Grossi
 Andrea Nuti
 Roberto Mazzoleni
 Ashraf Saber
2
Ettore Ceresoli 8
Gianni Iapichino 28
Paolo Dal Soglio 7

Women

Athlete
Donatella Dal Bianco 18
Elisa Rea 4
Carla Tuzzi 13
Barbara Lah 13

2014

Italy at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships competed in Portland from 7 to 9 March, with 12 athletes, 3 men and 9 women.[6]

Men

AthleteEventDate of birthPersonal BestSeason BestResultPerformance
Fabio Cerutti 60 Metres26 Sep 856.556.65SF6.71[7]
Paolo Dal Molin 60 Metres Hurdles31 Jul 877.517.60Heat7.76
Marco Fassinotti High Jump29 Apr 892.34 m2.34 m6th2.29 m

Women

AthleteEventDate of birthPersonal BestSeason BestResultPerformance
Audrey Alloh 60 Metres21 Jul 877.307.32Heat7.35
Marzia Caravelli 60 Metres Hurdles23 Oct 818.038.07SF7.97 PB
Giulia Pennella 27 Oct 898.048.04Heat8.16
Marta Milani 4 x 400 Metres Relay09 Mar 87 SF3:31.99 NR
Maria Enrica Spacca 20 Mar 86
Chiara Bazzoni 05 Jul 84
Elena Maria Bonfanti 09 Jul 88
Margherita Magnani 1500 Metres26 Feb 874:06.344:09.27DNS
3000 Metres8:51.818:51.818th9:10.13[8]
Chiara Rosa Shot Put28 Jan 8319.15 m18.23 mQual17.31 m

2016

The gold medal jump of Tamberi, 2.36 m at the first attempt.

Italy at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships competed from 17 to 20 March, with 5 athletes, 2 men and 3 women and won a gold medal with Gianmarco Tamberi in the high jump.[9]

Men

AthleteEventDate of birthPersonal BestSeason BestResultPerformance
Marco Fassinotti High Jump29 Apr 892.35 m2.35 m9th2.25 m
Gianmarco Tamberi 01 Jun 922.38 m2.38 m1st2.36 m

Women

AthleteEventDate of birthPersonal BestSeason BestResultPerformance
Gloria Hooper 60 Metres03 Mar 927.327.32SF7.28 PB
Chiara Rosa Shot Put28 Jan 8319.15 m17.90 m11th17.10 m
Alessia Trost High Jump08 Mar 932.00 m1.95 m7th1.93 m

2018

Alessia Trost, bronze medal in the high jump in 2018 edition.

Italy at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships competed in Birmingham from 1 to 4 March, with 13 athletes, 4 men and 9 women.[10]

Men

EventAthleteClubResultPerformanceNotes
Triple jump Fabrizio Donato G.S. Fiamme Gialle 14th 15.96 m
60 metres hurdles Paolo Dal Molin G.S. Fiamme Oro Heat 7.81
60 metres hurdles Hassane Fofana G.S. Fiamme Oro Heat 7.81
3000 metres Yassin Bouih G.S. Fiamme Gialle 11th 8:20.84 [11]

Women

EventAthleteClubResultPerformanceNotes
60 metres Anna Bongiorni C.S. Carabinieri Semi 7.30 [12]
60 metres hurdles Veronica Borsi ACSI Italia Atletica Heat 8.27
60 metres hurdles Elisa Di Lazzaro C.S. Carabinieri Heat 8.35
High jump Alessia Trost G.S. Fiamme Gialle 3rd 1.93 m SB
400 metres Ayomide Folorunso G.S. Fiamme Oro Heat 53.24
400 metres Raphaela Lukudo C.S. Esercito Semi 53.18 [13]
4 × 400 m relay Chiara Bazzoni
Marta Milani
Maria Enrica Spacca
Raphaela Lukudo
Ayomide Folorunso
5th 3:31.55 NR

See also

References

  1. "MANIFESTAZIONI INTERNAZIONALI ITALIANI SUL PODIO – 1908 2011" (PDF) (in Italian). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
  2. "IAAF World Indoor Championships [1985-2016]" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  3. "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.
  4. "Annuario FIDAL dell'atletica 2010" (PDF) (in Italian). asdpedaggio-castiglionetorinese.com. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
  5. Disqualified but finalists.
  6. "IAAF World Indoor Championships - Sopot (POL) 7-9 March 2014". iaaf.org. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  7. He ran a better time, 6.67 in Semi Finals
  8. She ran a better time, 8.58.51 in Semi Finals
  9. "IAAF World Indoor Championships - Portland (USA) 17-20 March 2016" (PDF). iaaf.org. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  10. "Trost e Di Lazzaro ai Mondiali Indoor" (in Italian). fidal.it. 22 February 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  11. He ran a better time in semi-finals, 7:50.65 his PB
  12. She ran a better time in heat, 7.24 her PB
  13. She ran a better time in heat, 52.98 her PB
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