| Iaaf: | ITA |
| Fedname: | Federazione Italiana di Atletica Leggera |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Games: | World Championships in Athletics |
| Location: | Berlin |
| Competitors: | 35 (20 men, 15 women) |
| Gold: | 0 |
| Silver: | 0 |
| Bronze: | 1 |
| Rank: | 33 |
| Appearances: | auto |
| App Begin Year: | 1983 |
Italy competed at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, held from August 15 to August 23. On August 3, the Italian national athletics federation (FIDAL) revealed the final team composed of 40 athletes (24 men and 16 women),[1] but on 8 August, after a last test competition in Grosseto, Andrew Howe, in accordance with FIDAL, decided not to compete in Berlin. Just before publishing the team, Faloci, a discus thrower, also decided not to compete.
Italy did not win a single medal in the championships, the first time ever in the history of the World Athletics Championships that Italy have failed to win a medal, the first time since Melbourne 1956 in any major championships (World, Olympics or European), but the medals of some of the athletics world championship races in 2009 were otherwise awarded 24 March 2016 as a result of doping disqualifications. Among these reallocations also the medals of 20 km walk, which saw the Italian Giorgio Rubino, initially 4th, get the bronze medal This fact, 7 years after the event, allowed Italy to clear the zero in the Medal table.[2] On 6 February 2018 IAAF disqualified Anna Chicherova for doping, 2nd in the high jump, so also Antonietta Di Martino was advanced to bronze medal.[3]
| Athlete | Gendre | Event | Medal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | BRONZE[4] | |||
| Women | BRONZE |
Italy national athletics team ranked 17th (with 9 finalists) in the IAAF placing table. Rank obtained by assigning eight points in the first place and so on to the eight finalists.[5]
For the Italian national team participated at the events 35 athletes, 20 men and 15 women.[6]
| Event | Athletes | Heat Round 1 | Heat Round 2 | Semifinal | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
| 100 m | Simone Collio | 10.49 | 4 | align=center colspan="8" | did not advance | ||||
| Fabio Cerutti | 10.36 | 3 | 10.37 | 7 | align=center colspan="4" | did not advance | |||
| Emanuele Di Gregorio | 10.35 | 2 | 10.26 | 4 | align=center colspan="4" | did not advance | |||
| 200 m | Matteo Galvan | DNS | DNS | align=center colspan="6" | did not advance | ||||
| 400 m | Matteo Galvan | 45.86 | 24 | align=center colspan="2" | - | 46.87 | 24 | align=center colspan="6" | did not advance |
| 800 m | Lukas Rifesser | 1:53.31 | 18 | align=center colspan="6" | did not advance | ||||
| 1500 m | Christian Obrist | 3:43:41 | 8 | align=center colspan="2" | - | align=center colspan="4" | did not advance | ||
| 5000 m | Daniele Meucci | 13:37:49 | 14 | align=center colspan="2" | - | align=center colspan="4" | did not advance | ||
| 20km walk | Ivano Brugnetti | align=center colspan="2" | - | align=center colspan="4" | - | DNF | DNF | ||
| Jean-Jacques Nkouloukidi | align=center colspan="2" | - | align=center colspan="4" | - | 1:23:07 | 21 | |||
| Giorgio Rubino | align=center colspan="2" | - | align=center colspan="4" | - | 1:19:50 | align=center bgcolor=cc9966 | 3 | ||
| 50km walk | Diego Cafagna | align=center colspan="2" | - | align=center colspan="4" | - | 4:08:04 | 28 | ||
| Marco De Luca | align=center colspan="2" | - | align=center colspan="4" | - | 3:46:31 | 7 | |||
| Alex Schwazer | align=center colspan="2" | - | align=center colspan="4" | - | DNF | DNF | |||
| 4 × 100 m relay | Italy Roberto Donati Simone Collio Emanuele Di Gregorio Fabio Cerutti | 38:52 | 1 | align=center colspan="4" | - | 38:54 | 6 | ||
| Event | Athletes | Qualification | Final | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
| Pole vault | Giuseppe Gibilisco | 5.65 | 5 | 5.65 | 7 |
| Triple jump | Fabrizio Donato | 15.81 | 41 | align=center colspan=2 | did not advance |
| Daniele Greco | 16.18 | 34 | align=center colspan=2 | did not advance | |
| Fabrizio Schembri | 16.88 | 15 | align=center colspan=2 | did not advance | |
| High jump | Giulio Ciotti | 2.27 | 9 | 2.23 | 11 |
| Hammer throw | Nicola Vizzoni | 76.95 | 7 | 73.70 | 9 |
| Event | Athletes | Heat Round 1 | Heat Round 2 | Semifinal | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
| 400 m | Libania Grenot | 51.45 | 2 | align=center colspan="2" | - | 50.85 | 4 | align=center colspan="2" | did not advance |
| 800 m | Daniela Reina | 2:06:30 | 5 | align=center colspan="2" | - | align=center colspan="4" | did not advance | ||
| Elisa Cusma | 2:02:33 | 1 | align=center colspan="2" | - | 2:00:61 | 1 | 1:58:81 | 6 | |
| 5000 m | Silvia Weissteiner | 15:20:88 | 12 | align=center colspan="4" | - | 15:09:74 | 7 | ||
| 3000 m s'chase | Elena Romagnolo | 9:56:61 | 14 | align=center colspan="4" | - | align=center colspan="2" | did not advance | ||
| 20km Walk | Elisa Rigaudo | align=center colspan="2" | - | align=center colspan="4" | - | 1:31:52 | 8 | ||
| Valentina Trapletti | align=center colspan="2" | - | align=center colspan="4" | - | 1:35:33 | 17 | |||
| 4 × 400 m relay | Italy Marta Milani Daniela Reina Maria Enrica Spacca Libania Grenot | 3:31:05 | 5 | align=center colspan="4" | - | align=center colspan="4" | did not advance | ||
| Event | Athletes | Qualification | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | |||
| High jump | Antonietta Di Martino | 1.95 | 4 | 1.99 | align=center bgcolor=cc9966 | 3 |
| Pole vault | Anna Giordano Bruno | 4.50 | 13 | align=center colspan="2" | did not advance | |
| Triple jump | Magdelín Martínez | 13.87 | 21 | align=center colspan="2" | did not advance | |
| Hammer throw | Clarissa Claretti | 70.01 | 12 | 71.56 | 8 | |
| Hammer throw | Silvia Salis | 68.55 | 17 | align=center colspan="2" | did not advance | |
| Chiara Rosa | 17.89 | 16 | align=center colspan="2" | did not advance | ||