Italy at the World Athletics Relays explained

Country:	Italy
Iaaf:	ITA
Fedname:	FIDAL
Games:	World Athletics Relays
Gold:	3
Silver:	0
Bronze:	1
Rank:	6
Appearances:	2014 2015 2017 2019 2021
App Begin Year:	2014

Italy has competed at the World Athletics Relays since first edition held in 2014, Italian teams have won a bronze medal in 2019.^[1]

Medals

Edition				Event	Team
2014 Nassau	0	0	0
2015 Nassau	0	0	0
2017 Nassau	0	0	0
2019 Yokohama	0	0	1	Women's relay	Maria Benedicta Chigbolu Ayomide Folorunso Giancarla Trevisan Raphaela Lukudo Chiara Bazzoni Elisabetta Vandi
2021 Silesia	3	0	0	Mixed relay	Edoardo Scotti Giancarla Trevisan Alice Mangione Davide Re
Women's relay				Irene Siragusa Gloria Hooper Anna Bongiorni Vittoria Fontana Johanelis Herrera
Men's relay				Fausto Desalu Marcell Jacobs Davide Manenti Filippo Tortu
	3	0	1

Nassau 2014

Italy competed at the first edition of the World Athletics Relays (at what time still known as IAAF World Relays) in Nassau, Bahamas, from 24 to 25 May 2014.

Selected athletes

In this first edition national relay team was made up of only the women's 4x400m team, only five athletes.^[2]

Athlete	Women's 4x400
	x
	x
	x
	x
	x

Results

Event	Team	Round	Rank	Time	Notes
relay	align=left rowspan=2	Chiara Bazzoni Maria Enrica Spacca Elena Maria Bonfanti Libania Grenot	Heats	8th	3:30.67
	Final	6th	3:27.44

Nassau 2015

Italy competed at the 2015 IAAF World Relays in Nassau, Bahamas, from 2 to 3 May 2015.^[3]

Selected athletes

17 athletes, 6 men and 11 women, was selected for the event, for the composition of four teams: the 4x100 m men and women, the 4x400 m women. The 4x200 m men did not start.^[4]

Athlete	Men's 4x100	Men's 4x200	Women's 4x100	Women's 4x400
	x
	x	x
	x	x
	x	x
		x
			x
			x
			x
			x
			x
				x
				x
				x
				x
				x
Marta Milani				x

Results

Men

Event	Team	Round	Rank	Time	Notes
relay	Fabio Cerutti Fausto Desalu Diego Marani Delmas Obou	Heats	10th	38.84
	Fabio Cerutti Eseosa Desalu Matteo Galvan Delmas Obou	Final B	5th	39.23

Women

Event	Team	Round	Rank	Time	Notes
relay	Chiara Bazzoni Libania Grenot Elena Maria Bonfanti Maria Benedicta Chigbolu	Heats		No time
relay	Giulia Riva Gloria Hooper Irene Siragusa Audrey Alloh	Heats		No time

Nassau 2017

Italy competed at the 2017 IAAF World Relays in Nassau, Bahamas, from 22 to 23 April 2017.

Selected athletes

11 athletes, 6 men and 5 women, was selected for the event for the composition of two teams: the 4x100 m men and the 4x100 m women.^[5]

Athlete	Men's 4x100	Women's 4x100
	x
	x
	x
	x
	x
	x
		x
		x
		x
		x
		x

Results

Women

Yokohama 2019

Italy competed at the 2019 IAAF World Relays in Yokohama, Japan, from 11 to 19 May 2019, participating in five of the ten scheduled competitions.^[6]

Selected athletes

29 athletes, 14 men and 15 women, was selected for the event.^{[7] [8]}

Athlete	Men		Women
	4x100	4x400/4x400 mixed	4x100	4x400/4x400 mixed
	x
	x
	x
	x
	x
	x
		x
		x
		x
		x
		x
		x
		x
		x
			x
			x
			x
			x
			x
			x
				x
				x
				x
				x
				x
				x
				x
				x
				x

Composition team and results

On 10 May 2019 Italian Athletics Federation announced the composition of the five national teams to the five competitions in which it will participate.^[9]

	Men's 4 × 100 metres relay	Women's 4 × 100 metres relay	Men's 4 × 400 metres relay	Women's 4 × 400 metres relay	Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay
Heats	Fausto Desalu Marcell Jacobs Davide Manenti Filippo Tortu	Johanelis Herrera Gloria Hooper Anna Bongiorni Irene Siragusa	Daniele Corsa Michele Tricca Edoardo Scotti Alessandro Sibilio	Maria Benedicta Chigbolu Ayomide Folorunso Elisabetta Vandi Chiara Bazzoni	Davide Re Giancarla Trevisan Andrew Howe Raphaela Lukudo
	advances to the final with the 3rd crono 38.29	advances to the final with the 6th crono 43.40	access to the final B with the 10th crono 3:03.97	advances to the final with the 6th crono 3:29.08	advances to the final with the 3rd crono 3:16.12
Finals	Fausto Desalu Marcell Jacobs Davide Manenti Filippo Tortu	Johanelis Herrera Gloria Hooper Anna Bongiorni Irene Siragusa	Daniele Corsa Michele Tricca Edoardo Scotti Davide Re	Maria Benedicta Chigbolu Ayomide Folorunso Giancarla Trevisan Raphaela Lukudo	Giuseppe Leonardi Virginia Troiani Chiara Bazzoni Alessandro Sibilio
		5th 44.29	1st 3:02.87	3:27.74	4th 3:20.28

Silesia 2021

Italy competed at the 2021 World Athletics Relays in Silesia, Poland, from 1 to 2 May 2021, participating in five of the ten scheduled competitions.^[6]

Selected athletes

30 athletes, 16 men and 14 women, was selected for the event,^[10] but there were two forfais.

Athlete	Men		Women
	4x100	4x400/4x400 mixed	4x100	4x400/4x400 mixed
	x
	x
	x
	x
	x
	x
	x
		x
		x
		x
		x
		x
		x
		x
			x
			x
			x
			x
			x
			x
			x
^[11]				x
				x
				x
				x
				x
Rebecca Borga				x
				x
				x
				x

Results

In the heats all five teams qualified for the final, the three who did not yet have the Olympic pass (Men's 4x100 m, Woman 4x400 m and Mixed 4x400 m), got it.^[12]

Men

Event	Team	Round	Rank	Time	Notes
relay	Fausto Desalu Marcell Jacobs Davide Manenti Filippo Tortu	Heats	1st	38.45	,,,
	Final	bgcolor=gold	1st	39.21
relay	Lorenzo Benati Alessandro Sibilio Brayan Lopez Vladimir Aceti	Heats	8th	3:04.81
	Final	4th	3:05.11

Women

Event	Team	Round	Rank	Time	Notes
relay	Johanelis Herrera Abreu Gloria Hooper Anna Bongiorni Irene Siragusa	Heats	6th	44.02	^[13]
	Irene Siragusa Gloria Hooper Anna Bongiorni Vittoria Fontana	Final	bgcolor=gold	1st	43.79
relay	Raphaela Lukudo Eleonora Marchiando Petra Nardelli Ayomide Folorunso	Heats	7th	44.02	,,
	Final	5th	3:32.69

Mixed

Event	Team	Round	Rank	Time	Notes
relay	Edoardo Scotti Giancarla Trevisan Alice Mangione Davide Re	Heats	1st	3:16.52	,,, ^[14]
	Filnal	bgcolor=gold	1st	3:16.60

See also

• Italian national track relay team

External links

• World Athletics Relays at World Athletics

Notes and References

1. Web site: World Athletics Relays - Past Editions. worldathletics.org. 27 April 2021.
2. Web site: Staffette Mondiali azzurre a Nassau. fidal.it. it. 24 May 2014. 29 April 2021.
3. Web site: 4X100 METRES RELAY MEN02 MAY 2015 19:58. worldathletics.org. 27 April 2021.
4. Web site: World Relays: inizia l'avventura azzurra. fidal.it. 30 April 2015. it. 4 May 2021.
5. Web site: IAAF World Relays: anche Cerutti a Nassau. fidal.it. it. 17 April 2017. 28 April 2021.
6. Web site: Yokohama 2019 Facts & Figures. worldathletics.org. 28 April 2021.
7. Web site: ATHLETES IAAF WORLD RELAYS - ITALY. iaaf.org. 11 May 2019.
8. Web site: Yokohama: 29 azzurri ai Mondiali di staffette. fidal.it. 23 April 2019. it. 11 May 2019.
9. Web site: Yokohama, ecco i quartetti azzurri. fidal.it. 10 May 2019. it. 11 May 2019.
10. Web site: Gli azzurri per le World Relays in Polonia. fidal.it. 20 April 2021. it. 26 April 2021.
11. Web site: World Relays, DT La Torre: "Strategia e coraggio". Abbiamo voluto preservare il valore della 4x400 femminile, pur con le assenze di Mariabenedicta Chigbolu e Rebecca Borga, che resteranno in Italia.. fidal.it. it. 28 April 2021. 28 April 2021.
12. Web site: Staffette, impresa Italia: 5 su 5 a Tokyo!. fidal.it. it. 1 May 2021. 2 May 2021.
13. Web site: 4X100 METRES RELAY WOMEN - Summary. worldathletics.org. 2 May 2021.
14. Web site: 4X400 METRES RELAY MIXED - Summary. worldathletics.org. 2 May 2021.