Italy at the World Athletics Indoor Championships explained

Country:	Italy
Noc:	ITA
Iaaf:	ITA
Games Link:	World Athletics Indoor Championships
Games:	World Athletics Indoor Championships
Fedname:	FIDAL
Gold:	7
Silver:	6
Bronze:	13
Rank:	19

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.

Medal count

Italy won 26 medals (7 gold) and ranked 21st in the all-time medal table of the championships.^{[2] [3]} In six editions the azzurri team has not won any medals.

Edition				Rank
	1	2	1	9
	0	1	2	11
	0	0	3	21
	0	1	3	15
	1	0	1	10
	1	1	0	6
	1	0	0	11
	0	0	0	-
	1	0	0	12
	0	0	0	-
	0	0	0	-
	0	0	1	28
	0	0	0	-
	0	0	0	-
	0	1	0	17
	0	0	0	-
	1	0	0	10
	0	0	1	24
	1	0	1	13
	7	6	13	26

Medalists

Edition	Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1985 Paris		bgcolor=pink	Giuliana Salce
			Maurizio Damilano
			bgcolor=pink	Agnese Possamai
				Giovanni Evangelisti
1987 Indianapolis			bgcolor=pink	Giuliana Salce
				Pierfrancesco Pavoni
				Giovanni Evangelisti
1989 Budapest				Pierfrancesco Pavoni
				Tonino Viali
				bgcolor=pink	Ileana Salvador
1991 Sevilla			Giovanni De Benedictis
				Marco Vaccari, Vito Petrella, Alessandro Aimar, Andrea Nuti
				Giovanni Evangelisti
				bgcolor=pink	Ileana Salvador
1993 Toronto		Gennaro Di Napoli
				bgcolor=pink	Ileana Salvador
1995 Barcelona		Gennaro Di Napoli
			Fabio Grossi Andrea Nuti Roberto Mazzoleni Ashraf Saber
1997 Paris		bgcolor=pink	Fiona May
1999 Maebashi
2001 Lisbon		Paolo Camossi
2003 Birmingham
2004 Budapest
2006 Moscow
2008 Valencia
2010 Doha
2012 Istanbul			bgcolor=pink
2014 Sopot
2016 Portland
2018 Birmingham				bgcolor=pink
2022 Belgrade		Marcell Jacobs
				Gianmarco Tamberi
		7	6	13

1985

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

Men

Athlete
	bgcolor=lightblue	8
	14
		bgcolor=lightblue	7
				bgcolor=lightblue	6
					bgcolor=lightblue	5
					bgcolor=lightblue	6
						9
							9
							11
								bgcolor=silver	2
									10
									13
											3
											10
													bgcolor=lightblue	6

Women

Athlete
			bgcolor=lightblue	6
						bgcolor=silver	2
								bgcolor=gold	1

1987

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

Men

Athlete
	3
	bgcolor=lightblue	4
			13
					bgcolor=lightblue	8	DNF
							15
								bgcolor=lightblue	7
								13
										10
											3

Women

Athlete
	21
		9
							11
										bgcolor=lightblue	8
								bgcolor=silver	2

1989

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

Men

Athlete
	3
	bgcolor=lightblue	4
		bgcolor=lightblue	4
		10
				3
						bgcolor=lightblue	8
								bgcolor=lightblue	4
													bgcolor=lightblue	7

Women

Athlete
								3
										bgcolor=lightblue	5
											12

1991

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

Men

Athlete
	18
		bgcolor=lightblue	7
		9
					16
							18
								3
									bgcolor=silver	2
													3
													bgcolor=lightblue	7
														14

Women

Athlete
									3
									DSQ
										17
											bgcolor=lightblue	7

1993

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

Men

Athlete
	16
		13
			17
				10
					16
						bgcolor=gold	1
								bgcolor=lightblue	6^[5]
										15
											bgcolor=lightblue	7
														bgcolor=lightblue	5
Luciano Zerbini														bgcolor=lightblue	6

Women

Athlete
					11
									3
									bgcolor=lightblue	6
										18
											10	bgcolor=lightblue	4

1995

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

Women

Athlete
		18
						bgcolor=lightblue	4
							13
											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

Athlete	Event	Date of birth	Personal Best	Season Best	Result	Performance
Fabio Cerutti		26 Sep 85	6.55	6.65		6.71^[7]
Paolo Dal Molin		31 Jul 87	7.51	7.60		7.76
Marco Fassinotti		29 Apr 89	2.34 m	2.34 m	6th	2.29 m

Women

Athlete	Event	Date of birth	Personal Best	Season Best	Result	Performance
Audrey Alloh		21 Jul 87	7.30	7.32		7.35
Marzia Caravelli		23 Oct 81	8.03	8.07		7.97
Giulia Pennella		27 Oct 89	8.04	8.04		8.16
Marta Milani		09 Mar 87			3:31.99
Maria Enrica Spacca		20 Mar 86
Chiara Bazzoni		05 Jul 84
Elena Maria Bonfanti		09 Jul 88
align=left rowspan=2	Margherita Magnani		26 Feb 87	4:06.34	4:09.27
	8:51.81	8:51.81		8th	9:10.13^[8]
Chiara Rosa		28 Jan 83	19.15 m	18.23 m		17.31 m

2016

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

Athlete	Event	Date of birth	Personal Best	Season Best	Result	Performance
	High Jump	29 Apr 89	2.35 m	2.35 m	9th	2.25 m
		01 Jun 92	2.38 m	2.38 m	bgcolor=gold	1st	2.36 m

Women

Athlete	Event	Date of birth	Personal Best	Season Best	Result	Performance
Gloria Hooper		03 Mar 92	7.32	7.32		7.28
Chiara Rosa		28 Jan 83	19.15 m	17.90 m	11th	17.10 m
Alessia Trost		08 Mar 93	2.00 m	1.95 m	7th	1.93 m

2018

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

Event	Athlete	Club	Result	Performance	Notes
Triple jump	Fabrizio Donato	G.S. Fiamme Gialle	14th	15.96 m
60 metres hurdles	Paolo Dal Molin	G.S. Fiamme Oro		7.81
60 metres hurdles	Hassane Fofana	G.S. Fiamme Oro		7.81
3000 metres	Yassin Bouih	G.S. Fiamme Gialle	11th	8:20.84	^[11]

Women

Event	Athlete	Club	Result	Performance	Notes
60 metres	Anna Bongiorni	C.S. Carabinieri		7.30	^[12]
60 metres hurdles	Veronica Borsi	ACSI Italia Atletica		8.27
60 metres hurdles	Elisa Di Lazzaro	C.S. Carabinieri		8.35
High jump	Alessia Trost	G.S. Fiamme Gialle	align=center bgcolor=cc9966	3rd	1.93 m
400 metres	Ayomide Folorunso	G.S. Fiamme Oro		53.24
400 metres	Raphaela Lukudo	C.S. Esercito		53.18	^[13]
4 × 400 m relay	Chiara Bazzoni Marta Milani Maria Enrica Spacca Raphaela Lukudo Ayomide Folorunso		5th	3:31.55

2022

Medalists

Medal	Athlete	Event
		Men's 60 m
		Men's high jump

See also

• Athletics in Italy
• Italy national athletics team
• Italy at the World Championships in Athletics

External links

• Italy at the World Championships (from page 48) at Daeugu 2011 Media Guide by FIDAL

Notes and References

1. Web site: MANIFESTAZIONI INTERNAZIONALI ITALIANI SUL PODIO – 1908 2011. sportolimpico.it. italian. 4 January 2013.
2. Web site: IAAF World Indoor Championships [1985-2016]]. sportolimpico.it. 6 July 2017.
3. Web site: Verso Sopot: il mondiale degli italiani in numeri – I record di Antonio Ullo, Fabrizio Donato e Paolo Dal Soglio. atleticalive.it. it. 5 March 2014. 23 February 2018.
4. Web site: Annuario FIDAL dell'atletica 2010. asdpedaggio-castiglionetorinese.com. it. 1 June 2021. 28 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210828003321/http://asdpedaggio-castiglionetorinese.com/files/annuario-fidal.pdf. dead.
5. Disqualified but finalists.
6. Web site: IAAF World Indoor Championships - Sopot (POL) 7-9 March 2014 . iaaf.org. 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. Web site: IAAF World Indoor Championships - Portland (USA) 17-20 March 2016 . iaaf.org. 23 February 2018.
10. Web site: Trost e Di Lazzaro ai Mondiali Indoor. fidal.it. it. 22 February 2018. 22 February 2018.
11. He ran a better time in semi-finals, 7:50.65 his
12. She ran a better time in heat, 7.24 her
13. She ran a better time in heat, 52.98 her