Nationality: | Italian |
Birth Date: | 3 November 2000 |
Birth Place: | Mesagne, Italy |
Residence: | Mesagne, Italy |
Height: | 179 cm |
Weight: | 58 kg |
Sport: | Taekwondo |
Weight Class: | Flyweight |
Club: | Carabinieri Bologna |
Coach: | Roberto Baglivo (club) Claudio Nolano (national) |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Vito Dell'Aquila (pronounced as /it/; born November 3, 2000) is an Italian taekwondo athlete.[1] [2] He won a gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He also won the gold medal in the men's flyweight event at the 2022 World Taekwondo Championships held in Guadalajara, Mexico.
On 25 June 2017 he won a bronze medal at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships in Muju losing in the semifinals to the eventual world champion Kim Tae-hun in the Men's finweight (54 kg) competition.[3]
On 24 July 2021, being ranked number 2 in the Men's 58 kg olympic ranking, he won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics beating the 2021 African champion, Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi, in the final of the Men's 58 kg.[4] [5]