The Sanremo Music Festival, officially the Italian Song Festival, is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria, organized and broadcast by Italian public broadcaster RAI. It is the longest-running annual TV music competition in the world on a national level and it is also the basis and inspiration for the annual Eurovision Song Contest.
Stefania Cicali is an Italian sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the late 2000s. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, she finished eighth in the K-4 500 m event while being eliminated in the semifinals of the K-2 500 m event.
Hanna Anatoliïvna Kasyanova is a Ukrainian heptathlete.
Elena Maria Petrini is an Italian professional triathlete, National Junior Aquathlon and National Junior Triathlon Champion, and Junior Aquathlon World Champion of 2010.
The Gruppo Sportivo Fiamme Azzurre is the sport section of the Italian police force Polizia Penitenziaria.
Roberto Bomprezzi is an Italian former modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal in the team event. He is currently a physician in good standing at the University of Massachusetts medical center practicing neurology with a focus in multiple sclerosis.
Cecilia Camellini is a visually-impaired, born blind, Paralympic swimmer of Italy. At the 2008 Summer Paralympics she won two silver medals. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics she won two gold in world record time, and two bronze medals.
Martina Caironi is an Italian Paralympic athlete. She competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and 2016 Summer Paralympics. She won a gold medal in the 100 m sprint in 2012 and a silver in the long jump in 2016. She qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Norma Murabito is an Italian sprint canoeist. Murabito is a member of Aniene Canoeing Club in Rome, and is coached and trained by Stefano Grillo.
Oxana Corso is a Russian-born Italian Paralympic athlete. As of April 2014, she holds the Women's 400 metres world records for the T35 cerebral palsy classification. She won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, and competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, in 100m T35 and 200m T35.
Maritza Arango Buitrago is a middle-distance para-sport athlete from Colombia who competes mainly in middle-distance events in the T11 category. She has represented Colombia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London and has won silver in the 800m at two consecutive IPC Athletics World Championships. She won two bronze medals at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Irene Franchini is an Italian recurve and compound archer and part of the national team.
Martina Carraro is an Italian swimmer. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in 100 m breaststroke and 200 m breaststroke. She was European champion in short course in the 100 m breaststroke at the 2019 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Glasgow, Scotland.
Elisabetta Mijno is an Italian Paralympic archer.
Stefano Sottile is an Italian high jumper who competed at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics.
Matteo Betti is an Italian wheelchair fencer. Born in Siena, he represented Italy at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and he won the bronze medal in the men's épée A event in 2012.
Giuseppina "Giusy" Versace is an Italian Paralympic athlete who competes in sprinting events in international level events and a television presenter and member of the Senate for the Action party.
Fabio Triboli is an Italian male paralympic athlete who won medals at the Paralympic Games.
Gianmaria Dal Maistro is a visually impaired Italian male paralympic alpine skier who won medals at the Paralympic Games.
Evelina Bertoli is an Olympic Italian eventing rider. Bertoli placed second in the 2020 FEI Eventing Nations Cup in Montelibretti, Italy—the Italian Grand Championships. She competed at the 2021 and 2023 European Championships, and at the 2022 World Championships in Pratoni del Vivaro. In 2024 she competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris and finished 22nd in the individual standings. Previously a modern pentathlete, she was Italian junior champion in modern pentathlon in 2004 and 2005.
