Italy at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics

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Italy at the
2005 World Championships in Athletics
Flag of Italy (2003-2006).svg
WA codeITA
National federation FIDAL
Website www.fidal.it
in Helsinki
Competitors49 (27 men, 22 women)
Medals
Ranked 33rd
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
1
Total
1
World Championships in Athletics appearances (overview)

Italy competed at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in Paris, France from 6 to 14 August 2005. The nation sent a delegation of 49 athletes (27 men and 22 women) and won one medal at the competition. Alex Schwazer was the bronze medallist in the men's 50 kilometres race walk and he achieved a national record of 3:41:54 hours in the process. It was an unexpected medal, as Schwazer knocked nearly twenty minutes off his previous best that year. [1] Among other Italian performances, three athletes finished fifth in field event finals: Nicola Ciotti (men's high jump), Giuseppe Gibilisco (men's pole vault) and Zahra Bani (women's javelin throw). Excluding the straight finals in the marathon and walks, six Italians reached the final of their track and field event.

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This was Italy's worst performance on the medal table at the World Championships at that point and presaged the outcome of no medals at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics.

Medalists

AthleteGenderEventMedal
Alex Schwazer Men 50 km walk Bronze

Men

EventAthleteRoundPositionResultNotes
100 m Simone Collio Heats Q 10.27
QuarterfinalsEliminated10.60
200 m Andrew Howe Heats Q 21.08
QuarterfinalsEliminated21.19
Koura Kaba Fantoni HeatsEliminated21.10
400 m Andrea Barberi Heats q 45.70 PB
SemifinalsEliminated47.10
800 m Maurizio Bobbato HeatsEliminated1:48.36
Marathon Ottaviano Andriani Final17th2:16:29
Ruggero Pertile Final35th2:21:34
Stefano Baldini Final DNF
Migidio Bourifa Final DNF
Alberico Di Cecco Final DNF
20 km walk Lorenzo Civallero Final14th1:22:52 SB
Ivano Brugnetti Final DNF
50 km walk Alex Schwazer FinalBronze medal icon.svg3:41:54 NR
Marco De Luca Final13th3:58:32
Diego Cafagna Final DQ [2]
High jump Nicola Ciotti Qualifying q 2.27 m
Final5th2.29 m
Andrea Bettinelli QualifyingEliminated2.24 m
Alessandro Talotti QualifyingEliminated NM
Pole vault Giuseppe Gibilisco Qualifying q 5.45 m
Final5th5.50 m
Triple jump Paolo Camossi QualifyingEliminated16.23 m
Hammer throw Nicola Vizzoni QualifyingEliminated70.77 m
Javelin throw Francesco Pignata QualifyingEliminated72.17 m
4 × 100 m relay Luca Verdecchia
Simone Collio
Massimiliano Donati
Andrew Howe
Heats DQ [3]
4 × 400 m relay Claudio Licciardello
Edoardo Vallet
Luca Galletti
Andrea Barberi
HeatsEliminated3:04.40 [4]

Women

EventAthleteRoundPositionResultNotes
100 m Manuela Levorato Heats Q 11.46
QuarterfinalsEliminated11.54
800 m Elisa Cusma HeatsEliminated2:05.95
1500 m Eleonora Berlanda HeatsEliminated4:14.54
400 m hurdles Benedetta Ceccarelli Heats Q 56.00
SemifinalsEliminated55.41 SB
Monika Niederstätter Heats Q 57.18
SemifinalsEliminated56.14
Marathon Rosaria Console Final19th2:32:47
20 km walk Elisa Rigaudo Final7th1:29:52
Gisella Orsini Final25th1:35:05
Long jump Fiona May QualifyingEliminated6.51 m
Triple jump Magdelín Martínez Qualifying Q 14.46 m
Final8th14.31 m
Simona La Mantia QualifyingEliminated14.00 m
Shot put Assunta Legnante Qualifying q 18.06 m
Final10th16.99 m
Cristiana Checchi QualifyingEliminated16.67 m
Chiara Rosa QualifyingEliminated17.32 m
Hammer throw Clarissa Claretti Qualifying q 68.21 m
Final8th64.76 m
Ester Balassini QualifyingEliminated NM
Javelin throw Zahra Bani Qualifying q 60.09 m
Final5th62.75 m PB
Claudia Coslovich QualifyingEliminated55.78 m
4 × 100 m relay Elena Sordelli
Vincenza Calì
Manuela Grillo
Maria Aurora Salvagno
HeatsEliminated44.03

References

  1. Kirdyapkin walks tall to 50km title. IAAF (2005-08-12). Retrieved 2018-03-20.
  2. Rule 230.6a
  3. Rule 170.7
  4. Splits: Licciardello 46.8, Vallet 46.7, Galletti 45.75, Barberi 45.19