| Nationality: | Italian |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | Long distance running |
| Club: | G.S. Fiamme Gialle |
| Birth Date: | 1979 12, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Martina Franca, Italy |
| Coach: | Luciano Gigliotti |
| Weight: | 42kg (93lb) |
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| Country: |  Italy |
Rosaria Console, better known as Rosalba (born 17 December 1979 in Martina Franca, Taranto) is an Italian long-distance runner who specializes in the half marathon and marathon.
She won four medals, one of these at junior level, at the International athletics competitions.[1] She participated at two editions of the Summer Olympics (2004, 2012). She has 14 caps in national team from 1994 to 2012.[2] She suffered a tibia problem in early 2011 but still managed to take fifth place at the Rome City Marathon in March.[3] She won seven national championships (two on 10000 m in 2008 and 2016, four on half-marathon in 2003, 2009, 2010 and 2016, one on marathon in 2008).[4]
| Representing | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | World Junior Championships | Annecy, France | 18th (h) | 5000m | 16:51.21 | |
| 1999 | European U23 Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | 7th | 5000m | 15:51.35 | |
| bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 10,000m | 33:05.77 | |||
| Palma de Mallorca, Spain | 1st | Half marathon | 1:14:14 | |||
| 2001 | Padua, Italy | 1st | Marathon | 2:30:55 | ||
| Edmonton, Canada | 20th | Marathon | ||||
| 2002 | Munich, Germany | 5th | Marathon | 2:35:23 | ||
| 2003 | World Championships | Paris, France | - | Marathon | DNF | |
| 2004 | Vienna, Austria | 1st | Marathon | 2:29:22 | ||
| Athens, Greece | 16th | Marathon | ||||
| 2005 | Almería, Spain | 2nd | Half marathon | 1:15:40 | ||
| World Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 19th | Marathon | 2:32:47 | ||
| 2006 | European Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | - | Marathon | DNF | |
| 2008 | Italian Marathon | Carpi, Italy | 1st | Marathon | 2:30:44 | |
| 2009 | Pescara, Italy | 2nd | Half marathon | 1:12:34 | ||
| 2010 | European Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 8th | Marathon | 2:36:20 | |
| 2012 | London, Great Britain | 30th | Marathon | |||
She has won the individual national championship 8 times.[5]