Italy at the World Athletics Championships

Sporting event delegation

Italy at the
World Championships in Athletics

WA code| ITA
National federation| FIDAL
Website| www.fidal.it
Medals
Ranked 16th|

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

World Championships in Athletics appearances (overview)

* 1976
* 1980
* 1983
* 1987
* 1991
* 1993
* 1995
* 1997
* 1999
* 2001
* 2003
* 2005
* 2007
* 2009
* 2011
* 2013
* 2015
* 2017
* 2019
* 2022
* 2023

Italy has participated in all editions of the World Athletics Championships, held since the first edition of 1983 World Athletics Championships,[1] winning 51 podiums, including 13 world titles, 18 silver medals and 20 bronze medals.

Fiona May is the most successful Italian athlete in championships history, she won four medals: two gold, one silver and one bronze in the long jump.

## Medal count

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Fiona May, two gold medals at the WC Elisa Rigaudo, 4th at the arrival af 20km racewalk at Daegu 2011 advanced to bronze, in 2016, and to silver, in 2019, for IAAF decision per Russian doping scandal. Edition  | Competitors  | Men  | Women  | Total

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Tot. | Men | Women |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Tot. | Rank
1983 Helsinki | 39 | 27 | 12  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8th
1987 Rome | 56 | 35 | 21  | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6th
1991 Tokyo | 48 | 33 | 15  | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12th
1993 Stuttgart | 44 | 29 | 15  | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 21st
1995 Göteborg | 49 | 30 | 19  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3rd=
1997 Athens | 66 | 40 | 26  | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 14th
1999 Sevilla | 43 | 30 | 13  | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6th
2001 Edmonton | 38 | 22 | 16  | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 16th
2003 Paris | 47 | 25 | 22  | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 12th
2005 Helsinki | 49 | 28 | 21  | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 33rd
2007 Osaka | 33 | 18 | 15  | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 23rd
2009 Berlin | 35 | 20 | 15  | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 33rd
2011 Daegu | 30 | 15 | 15  | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 23rd
2013 Moscow | 48 | 27 | 21  | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 25th
2015 Beijing | 31 | 14 | 17  | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | \-
2017 London | 35 | 18 | 17  | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 38th
2019 Doha | 65 | 34 | 31  | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 31st
2022 Eugene | 60 | 29 | 31  | 1 | 0 | 0  | 0 | 0 | 1  | 1 | 0 | 1  | 2  | 19th
2023 Budapest | 78 | 43 | 35  | 1 | 2 | 0  | 0 | 0 | 1  | 1 | 2 | 1  | 4  | 13th
Total |  |  |  | 10 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 18 | 20 | 51 | 16th

### Medals awarded years later after doping cases

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Edition | Medal | Event | Athlete | Disqualified athlete (position) | Years for decision-making | Notes

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2009 Berlin |  | Men's 20 km walk | Giorgio Rubino |  Valeriy Borchin (1st)  | 7  | [2][3][4]
| Women's high jump | Antonietta Di Martino |  Anna Chicherova (2nd) | 9  | [5]
2011 Daegu |  | Women's 20 km walk | Elisa Rigaudo |  Olga Kaniskina (1st)  | 5  | [6][4]
Anisya Kirdyapkina (2nd)  | 8  | [7][8]
2013 Moscow |  | Women's 20 km walk | Elisa Rigaudo |  Elena Lashmanova (1st)  | 6  |
Anisya Kirdyapkina (2nd)  | 9  | [9]

## Medalists

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### By athletes

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| Athlete | Gender  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze  | Total | Editions

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Fiona May | W | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1995–2001
Maurizio Damilano | M | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1987–1991
Francesco Panetta | M | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1987
Fabrizio Mori | M | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1999–2001
Alberto Cova | M | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1983
Michele Didoni | M | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1995
Annarita Sidoti | W | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1997
Ivano Brugnetti | M | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1999
Giuseppe Gibilisco | M | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2003
Massimo Stano | M | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2022
Gianmarco Tamberi | M | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2023
Antonietta Di Martino | W | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2007–2011
Pietro Mennea * | M | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1983
Elisabetta Perrone | W | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1995–2001
Elisa Rigaudo | W | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2011-2013
Pierfrancesco Pavoni * | M | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1983
Carlo Simionato * | M | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1983
Stefano Tilli * | M | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1983
Alessandro Andrei | M | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1987
Giuseppe D'Urso | M | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1993
Giovanni De Benedictis | M | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1993
Ileana Salvador | W | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1993
Giovanni Perricelli | M | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1995
Roberta Brunet | W | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1997
Vincenzo Modica | M | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1999
Andrew Howe | M | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2007
Valeria Straneo | W | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2013
Leonardo Fabbri | M | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2023
Roberto Rigali * | M | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2023
Marcell Jacobs * | M | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2023
Lorenzo Patta * | M | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2023
Filippo Tortu * | M | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2023
Stefano Baldini | M | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2001–2003
Alex Schwazer | M | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2005–2007
Antonella Palmisano | W | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2017-2023
Gelindo Bordin | M | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1987
Alessandro Lambruschini | M | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1993
Angelo Cipolloni * | M | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1995
Sandro Floris * | M | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1995
Ezio Madonia * | M | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1995
Giovanni Puggioni * | M | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1995
Ornella Ferrara | W | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1995
Magdelín Martínez | W | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2003
Giorgio Rubino | M | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2009
Eleonora Giorgi | W | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2019
Elena Vallortigara | W | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2022
Total | 13 | 24 | 23 | 60 |
* He won a medal with relay team

### By events

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| Event| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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Racewalking| 6| 5| 8| 19
Jumping| 4| 3| 5| 12
Hurdling| 1| 1| 0| 2
Long-distance running| 1| 1| 0| 2
Steeplechase| 1| 0| 1| 2
Marathon| 0| 2| 4| 6
Relay| 0| 2| 1| 3
Middle-distance running| 0| 2| 0| 2
Throwing| 0| 2| 0| 2
Sprinting| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (10 entries)| 13| 18| 20| 51

## Placing table

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In the IAAF placing table the score is obtained by assigning eight points in the first place and so on to the eight finalists.[10]

Edition |  |  |  | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Pts | Rank | Finalists | Medals

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Helsinki 1983 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 43 | 8 | 12 | 3
Rome 1987 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 61 | 6 | 13 | 5
Tokyo 1991 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 39 | 10 | 14 | 1
Stuttgart 1993 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 43 | 11 | 10 | 4
Göteborg 1995 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 63 | 6 | 13 | 6
Athens 1997 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 52 | 9 | 16 | 3
Seville 1999 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 55 | 9 | 13 | 4
Edmonton 2001 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 44 | 12 | 9 | 4
Paris 2003 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 39 | 13 | 10 | 3
Helsinki 2005 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 22 | 7 | 1
Osaka 2007 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 31 | 16 | 7 | 3
Berlin 2009 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 17 | 9 | 1
Daegu 2011 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 17 | 7 | 2
Moscow 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 23 | 19 | 7 | 2
Beijing 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 29 | 4 | 0
London 2017 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 38 | 2 | 1
Doha 2019 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 26 | 7 | 1
Eugene 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 39 | 12 | 10 | 2
Budapest 2023 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 51 | 8 | 13 | 4

## Doping disqualifications

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Athlete  | Sex  | Event  | Year(s)  | Result  | Notes

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Roberto Barbi | Men | Marathon | 2001 | 60th |

## See also

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* Athletics in Italy
* Italy national athletics team
* Italy at the European Athletics Championships
* Italy at the World Indoor Championships in Athletics

## References

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1. ^ "MANIFESTAZIONI INTERNAZIONALI ITALIANI SUL PODIO – 1908 2011" (PDF) (in Italian). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
2. ^ Giorgio Rubino became bronze medal on 24 March 2016 (7 years after the event) in 20 km walk (he was 4th) after disqualification of Russian Valeriy Borchin who originally had run the race.
3. ^ 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.
4. ^ a b "GLOBAL CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS AFFECTED BY THE 24 MARCH 2016 CAS DECISION". iaaf.org. Retrieved 24 August 2017. "Now disqualified by doping violation: Valeriy Borchin (RUS) originally 1st, 1:18:41"
5. ^ "Sanctions for anti-doping rule violations in athletics as of 29 January 2018". iaaf.org. 6 February 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2018. "CHICHEROVA Anna (Date of birth 22.07.82) RUS In competition, "XXIX Olympic Games", Beijing, CHN 24.08.08 2 years ineligibility 01.07.16-30.06.18 From 24.08.08 to 23.08.10"
6. ^ Elisa Rigaudo became bronze medal on 24 March 2016 (5 years after the event) in 20 km walk (she was 4th) after disqualification of Russian Olga Kaniskina who originally had run the race.
7. ^ "20 KILOMETRES RACE WALK WOMEN 13TH IAAF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN ATHLETICS - ADAEGU (DS), KOREA 27 AUG 2011 - 04 SEP 2011". iaaf.org. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
8. ^ "Squalificata Anisja Kirdyapkina, per Elisa Rigaudo argento nella 20 km di marcia dei Mondiali di Daegu 2011" (in Italian). cuneodice.it. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
9. ^ Elisa Rigaudo became bronze medal in 2022 (9 years after the event) in 20 km walk (she was 5th) after disqualification of Russians Anisya Kirdyapkina in 2019 and Elena Lashmanova in 2022.
10. ^ "IAAF World Championships Rome 1983 - placing table". iaaf.org. Retrieved 10 August 2017.

## External links

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

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