Andrea Barberi Explained

Andrea Barberi
National Team:	Italy
Sport:	Athletics
Event:	400 metres
Birth Date:	1979 1, df=y
Birth Place:	Tivoli, Lazio, Italy
Death Date:	December 2023 (aged 44)
Death Place:	Tivoli, Lazio, Italy
Height:	1.78 m
Weight:	72 kg
Pb:	400 m: 45.19 (2006)

Andrea Barberi (15 January 1979 – December 2023) was an Italian sprint athlete who specialized in the 400 metres.

Biography

Barberi finished fifth at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and at the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships. He also reached the semi-finals of the 2005 World Athletics Championships. At the 2006 IAAF World Cup, he finished fifth in 4 x 400 metres relay with the European team.

On 27 August 2006 in Rieti, he ran in 45.19 seconds, breaking the Italian outdoor record which had stood since 1981.

The Italian Athletics Federation announced Barberi's death on 20 December 2023. He was 44.^[1]

National titles

Barberi won at the individual Italian Athletics Championships nine times:^[2]

• 400 metres (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
• 400 metres indoor (2004)

See also

• Italian all-time lists - 400 metres
• Italy national relay team

Notes and References

1. Web site: Atletica in lutto, addio Andrea Barberi . www.fidal.it . . 20 December 2023 . en.
2. Web site: "CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" ITALIANI SUL PODIO TRICOLORE – 1906 2012 . sportolimpico.it . 31 October 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121224064654/http://www.sportolimpico.it/attachments/article/224/CAMPIONI%20ITALIANI_UOMINI.pdf . 24 December 2012 .