Marco Lingua

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Marco Lingua
Marco Lingua.jpg
Lingua in 2018.
Personal information
Nationality Italian
Born (1978-06-04) 4 June 1978 (age 46)
Chivasso, Italy
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10+12 in)
Weight94 kg (207 lb)
Sport
Country Italy
Sport Athletics
Event Hammer throw
ClubMarco Lingua 4ever
Achievements and titles
Personal best
  • Hammer throw: 79.97 m (2008)
Medal record
European Cup Winter Throwing
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2008 Split Hammer throw
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2009 Los Realejos Hammer throw
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2016 Arad Hammer throw
World Military Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2009 Sofia Hammer throw

Marco Lingua (born 4 June 1978 in Chivasso, Piedmont) is an Italian hammer thrower, writer, actor, TV personality and former weightlifter. He finished eleventh at the 2006 European Championships. He also competed at the 2008 Olympic Games without reaching the final. His personal best throw is 79.97 metres, achieved in July 2008 in Bydgoszcz. For the results of the races in detail see the displayboards below.

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Biography

Sport activity: Militancy Societies

He started practicing athletics in 1994 at the age of 16, category Allievi, with a company in his hometown, the Chivassesi Sports Group. He then served in CUS Torino, in the Italian Air Force and from 1998 to 2014 in the Polisportiva Libertas Oranfresh Catania. He then moved on to the Fiamme Gialle with whom he competed from 1999 to 2014; in 2015 he was registered for Atletica Sandro Calvesi of Aosta and from 2016 he competed for ASD Marco Lingua 4ever by Mazzè.

Sport activity: Titles and Participations

In 1995 he won his first Italian youth title under 18. During the two-year juniors, 1996–1997, he doubles Italian under-20 titles. Also in 1997 he arrived seventh at the Junior European Championships in Ljubljana (Slovenia). The year 1998 sees him win three medals in the hammer at the Italian championships: silver promises of winter launches, gold under 23 and bronze to the absolutes of Rome. In the same year he also won the Italian junior weightlifting title.

In 1999 he won three medals at the Italian championships: gold under 23 and absolute bronze at the winter of pitches, gold at the national promises and bronze at the absolutes of Pescara. Participate in the under 23 European Championships in Gothenburg (Sweden) but remain out of the final. On 9 October, in Macerata, he signed the new best Italian performance Promesse with 76.72 m, beating the previous record of 75.60 m held by Loris Paoluzzi since 1996.

In 2000 Italian champion reconfirmed promises both to the winter of launches and the championships of the category; on the other hand, the absolute ends fourth at the winter of launches and conquers the bronze at the absolute of Milan.

In 2001 he won two bronzes, one for the winter of pitches and the other for the absolutes of Catania; he also graduates the absolute Italian champion of weightlifting in his category of +105 kg.

In 2002 he became the absolute Italian weightlifting champion (+105 kg category), bronze and absolute silver respectively for the winter launches and the Viareggio absolutes.

In 2003 he made his debut with the national team of the National seniors in the European Winter Cup of launches held in Italy in Gioia Tauro, the city where he had become the same year, for the first time in his career, Italian absolute runner-up in the winter launches; always at the national championships he reaches sixth in the cast of weight for indoor absolutes and wins the bronze at the Rieti absolutes. He competes, also in Italy, also at the Catania World Championships, finishing in seventh place.

During the two-year period 2004–2005 he finished sixth in Spain at the Mediterranean Games of Almería 2005 and, in the same year, eighth in the European Winter Cup of launches in Mersin (Turkey); at the absolute Italian championships instead he becomes vicevampione in Florence 2004 and then he graduates absolute champion to the winter of launches in 2005 (fourth to the absolute of Bressanone).

Year 2006: 11th at the Gothenburg European Championships in Sweden, eighth in Israel in Tel-Aviv in the specialty winter European Cup; gold to the winter of pitches and silver to the absolute of Turin, still silver even to the absolute weightlifting (did not compete with the Italian seniors of weights).

Year 2007: champion for both the absolute winter of pitches (no valid measure for the absolutes of Padova) and the absolute weightlifting (after the victory in the national seniors), second classified in France at the DécaNation of Paris and eighth in the Winter European Cup of launches in Yalta (Ukraine).

2008 is the year of his first Olympic Games: he takes part in China at the Olympic Games in Beijing, but he does three qualifying laps. Also in the international arena, he won the European Winter Cup for launches in Split, Croatia. In Italy he graduated as an absolute champion both in Cagliari (silver at the winter of one-quarter throws from the champion Vizzoni) and in the weightlifting (gold medal also for the Italian seniors).

Year 2009: Wins the silver medal in both the Winter European Cup of launches in Los Realejos (Spain) and the World Cup in Sofia (Bulgaria); in Italy at the Mediterranean Games in Pescara he made three throws in the final ended in 11th place. In the national championships he obtains three silver medals: winter of pitches, absolute of Milan and absolute weight lifting (he does not compete instead with the Italian seniors).

Year 2010: Absolute vice-champion both for the winter of specialties and for the absolute ones of Grosseto and seniors champion of weightlifting (silver medal for the absolute ones). He became the absolute vice-champion in Turin in 2011; while in winter the specialty does not make valid launches and instead the Italian weightlifting championships do not compete for seniors or absolutes.

The 2012 sees him present in Finland at the Europeans in Helsinki where he can not access the final; also at the Italian championships wins silver at the winter and bronze at the absolutes of Bressanone.

Year 2013: Wins a bronze and a silver respectively to the winter of launches and the absolutes of Milan; at the absolute national weightlifting ends in fifth place.

In 2014–2015 he obtains six medals at the absolute Italian championships: double silver in the hammer to the winter and the absolutes of Rovereto and bronze in weightlifting ('14), gold to the winter of specialty, bronze to the absolutes of Turin and silver to the national seniors of weightlifting, while the absolute does not finish the race ('15). Also in 2015 he took part in Russia at the European Championship for nations of Čeboksary, finishing in fifth position and then at the World Championships in Beijing in China, unable to reach the final.

Year 2016: Absolute Italian Champion title both at the winter launches and at the Rieti absolutes. In the international arena, he won the bronze medal in Romania in the Winter European Cup of launches in Arad; he also took part in both the Amsterdam European Championships in the Netherlands, finishing in 11th place and the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games in Brazil, where he failed to gain access to the final.

Year 2017: In February he won in Rieti the absolute Italian title for the winter launches. Between the months of March and June he obtained twice the sixth position in continental seniors: on 12 March on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria, he competed in the Winter European Cup of launches, while on 25 June he competed in France in the Super League of the European Championships in Villeneuve d'Ascq / Lille. On 2 July, at the Italian absolute championships in Trieste, at the sixth and last launch available, he passed Simone Falloni and graduated with a 73.84 m national champion [7]. On 11 August he ranks 10th at the World Championships in London (Great Britain), with the measure of 75.13 m [8] (after having qualified for the final with the last available place).

On 24 February 2018 he won his 10th overall Italian title in Rieti (7 in the winter of launches and 3 in the absolute). 10 March ends in tenth place in Leiria in the European winter Cup of launches in Portugal.

Curiosity

His use of five turns is quite unique among elite hammer throwing at present. [1]

Artistic activity

During the 1990s he participated in television programs Scommettiamo che...? (the Italian version of Wetten, dass..?) and 8mm. In 2007 he participated, as an actor in the same part of himself, to the web series NFDMT (episode Carnevale a Ivrea directed by Davide Lingua, of Verolengo, & Michele Melillo) and in 2008 he wrote the autobiographical book, together with G. Mario Castaldi, L'uomo che vinse due volte. Recently he participated in the television program Lo show dei record.

Progression

These are his personal bests year by year. [2]

The athlete for 27 consecutive seasons from 1998 to 2024, from 20 to 46 years old, managed to throw the hammer over 72 m. [3]

  Top 40 in world season list
  Personal best
Year (age)PerformanceVenueDateWorld Ranking
2024 (46)72.36 Flag of Italy.svg Cuneo 16 June84
2023 (45)73.36 Flag of Italy.svg Boissano 27 June63
2022 (44)75.56 Flag of Italy.svg Boissano 9 April37
2021 (43)74.27 Flag of Italy.svg Rovereto 27 June59
2020 (42)72.37 Flag of Italy.svg Mariano Comense 1 Feb55
2019 (41)74.17 Flag of Italy.svg La Spezia 16 July51
2018 (40)74.71 Flag of Greece.svg Nikiti 20 June39
2017 (39)77.23 Flag of Italy.svg Turin 7 May16
2016 (38)76.03 Flag of Italy.svg Boissano 28 September30
2015 (37)78.29 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Loughborough 18 July8
2014 (36)74.00 Flag of Italy.svg Marano di Napoli 13 September48
2013 (35)74.58 Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Ponce 18 May46
2012 (34)76.10 Flag of France.svg Metz 7 June47
2011 (33)76.12 Flag of Italy.svg Turin 26 June34
2010 (32)75.72 Flag of Italy.svg Trento 24 April38
2009 (31)79.66 Flag of Spain.svg Puerto de la Cruz 15 March9
2008 (30)79.97 Flag of Poland.svg Bydgoszcz 1 July15
2007 (29)77.65 Flag of France.svg Nice 28 April21
2006 (28)77.66 Flag of Italy.svg Savona 11 May25
2005 (27)76.07 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Genève 11 June38
2004 (26)75.67 Flag of Italy.svg Pavia 2 May48
2003 (25)74.97 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Genève 14 June51
2002 (24)75.19 Flag of Italy.svg Benevento 26 May46
2001 (23)74.40 Flag of Italy.svg Rome 3 June51
2000 (22)73.52 Flag of Italy.svg Milan 7 September74
1999 (21)76.72 Flag of Italy.svg Macerata 9 October40
1998 (20)73.38 Flag of Italy.svg Macerata 10 October72
1997 (19)66.18 Flag of Italy.svg Macerata 4 October192

Achievements

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventMeasureNotes
2006 European Championships Gothenburg 10th Hammer throw 73.73 m [n 1]
2008 European Cup Winter Throwing Split 1stHammer throw77.84 m
Olympic Games Beijing Qual. Hammer throw NM
World Athletics Final Stuttgart 6thHammer throw73.59 m [4]
2009 European Cup Winter Throwing Los Realejos 2ndHammer throw79.66 m SB
World Military Championships Sofia 2ndHammer throw78.80 m
2012 European Championships Helsinki 21st Hammer throw 71.07 m
2015 World Championships Beijing 19th Hammer throw 72.85 m
2016 European Cup Winter Throwing Arad 3rdHammer throw74.51 m
European Championships Amsterdam 10th Hammer throw 70.00 m [n 2]
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro Qual. Hammer throw NM
2017 World Championships London 10th Hammer throw 75.13 m
2018 European Championships Berlin Qual. (13th) Hammer throw 73.07 m [n 3]
2022 Mediterranean Games Oran 6th Hammer throw 70.70 m

National titles

Marco Lingua has won 17 times the individual national championship. [5] [6] [7]

See also

Notes

  1. In qualifying he had launched a better measure of 74.69 m
  2. He had throwed a better measure, 72.94 m, qualification
  3. First of the not admitted to the final.

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