Italy at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics

Italy at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics
WA code	ITA
National federation	Federazione Italiana di Atletica Leggera
Website	www.fidal.it
in Berlin
Competitors	35 (20 men, 15 women)
Medals Ranked 33rd	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 1
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Italy competed at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics , held from August 15 to August 23. On August 3, the Italian national athletics federation (FIDAL) revealed the final team composed of 40 athletes (24 men and 16 women), ^[1] but on 8 August, after a last test competition in Grosseto, Andrew Howe, in accordance with FIDAL, decided not to compete in Berlin. Just before publishing the team, Faloci, a discus thrower, also decided not to compete.

Italy did not win a single medal in the championships, the first time ever in the history of the World Athletics Championships that Italy have failed to win a medal, the first time since Melbourne 1956 in any major championships (World, Olympics or European), but 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. ^[2] On 6 February 2018 IAAF disqualified Anna Chicherova for doping, 2nd in the high jump, so also Antonietta Di Martino was advanced to bronze medal. ^[3]

Medalists

Di Martino in her winning jump during the race.

Athlete	Gendre	Event	Medal
Giorgio Rubino	Men	20 Kilometres Race Walk	BRONZE [4]
Antonietta Di Martino	Women	High jump	BRONZE

Finalists

Italy national athletics team ranked 17th (with 9 finalists) in the IAAF placing table. Rank obtained by assigning eight points in the first place and so on to the eight finalists. ^[5]

Rank	Country				4	5	6	7	8	Pts
17	Italy	0	0	1	1	0	2	3	2	25

Results

For the Italian national team participated at the events 35 athletes, 20 men and 15 women. ^[6]

Men (20)

Track events

Event	Athletes	Heat Round 1		Heat Round 2		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
100 m	Simone Collio	10.49	4	did not advance
	Fabio Cerutti	10.36	3	10.37	7	did not advance
	Emanuele Di Gregorio	10.35	2	10.26	4	did not advance
200 m	Matteo Galvan	DNS	DNS	did not advance
400 m	Matteo Galvan	45.86	24	-		46.87	24	did not advance
800 m	Lukas Rifesser	1:53.31	18	did not advance
1500 m	Christian Obrist	3:43:41	8	-		did not advance
5000 m	Daniele Meucci	13:37:49	14	-		did not advance
20km walk	Ivano Brugnetti	-		-				DNF	DNF
	Jean-Jacques Nkouloukidi	-		-				1:23:07	21
	Giorgio Rubino	-		-				1:19:50	3
50km walk	Diego Cafagna	-		-				4:08:04	28
	Marco De Luca	-		-				3:46:31	7 [2]
	Alex Schwazer	-		-				DNF	DNF
4 × 100 m relay	Italy Roberto Donati Simone Collio Emanuele Di Gregorio Fabio Cerutti	38:52	1	-				38:54	6

Field events

Event	Athletes	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Pole vault	Giuseppe Gibilisco	5.65	5	5.65	7
Triple jump	Fabrizio Donato	15.81	41	did not advance
	Daniele Greco	16.18	34	did not advance
	Fabrizio Schembri	16.88	15	did not advance
High jump	Giulio Ciotti	2.27	9	2.23	11
Hammer throw	Nicola Vizzoni	76.95	7	73.70	9

Women (15)

Track events

Event	Athletes	Heat Round 1		Heat Round 2		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
400 m	Libania Grenot	51.45	2	-		50.85	4	did not advance
800 m	Daniela Reina	2:06:30	5	-		did not advance
	Elisa Cusma	2:02:33	1	-		2:00:61	1	1:58:81	6
5000 m	Silvia Weissteiner	15:20:88	12	-				15:09:74	7
3000 m s'chase	Elena Romagnolo	9:56:61	14	-				did not advance
20km Walk	Elisa Rigaudo	-		-				1:31:52	8 [2]
	Valentina Trapletti	-		-				1:35:33	17
4 × 400 m relay	Italy Marta Milani Daniela Reina Maria Enrica Spacca Libania Grenot	3:31:05	5	-				did not advance

Field and combined events

Event	Athletes	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
High jump	Antonietta Di Martino	1.95	4	1.99	3
Pole vault	Anna Giordano Bruno	4.50	13	did not advance
Triple jump	Magdelín Martínez	13.87	21	did not advance
Hammer throw	Clarissa Claretti	70.01	12	71.56	8
Hammer throw	Silvia Salis	68.55	17	did not advance
	Chiara Rosa	17.89	16	did not advance

References

1. "FIDAL.it – Federazione Italiana di Atletica Leggera". Archived from the original on 2009-10-06. Retrieved 2009-08-10.
2. "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
3. "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
4. "GLOBAL CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS AFFECTED BY THE 24 MARCH 2016 CAS DECISION". iaaf.org. Retrieved 15 August 2017. Now disqualified by doping violation: Valeriy Borchin (RUS) originally 1st, 1:18:41
5. "IAAF World Championships Tokyo 1991 - Placing table". iaaf.org. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
6. "Daeugu 2011 Media Guide" (PDF) (in Italian). fidal.it. p. 48. Retrieved 24 August 2017.

External links

• Official competition website