Michele Didoni

Michele Didoni
Personal information
Nationality	Italian
Born	7 March 1974 (age 51); Milan
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Weight	73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
Country	Italy
Sport	Athletics
Event	Race walking
Club	C.S. Carabinieri
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	20 km: 1:19:59 (1995); 50 km: 3:51:53 (1998);
Medal record
World Championships
Mediterranean Games

Last updated March 21, 2025

Michele Didoni (born 7 March 1974 in Milan) is an Italian retired race walker, world champion of the 20 km race walk at Gothenburg 1995.

Biography

He won six times the national championships at senior level.^[1] and after his retire, he was the coach of Italian Olympic champion Alex Schwazer.^[2]

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Italy
1992	World Junior Championships	Seoul, South Korea	6th	10,000 m	41:42.75
1994	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	10th	20 km	1:23:21
1995	World Race Walking Cup	Beijing, PR China	5th	20 km	1:20:50
1995	World Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	1st	20 km	1:19:59
1996	Olympic Games	Atlanta, United States	34th	20 km	1:26:02
1997	World Championships	Athens, Greece	7th	20 km	1:23:14
1997	Mediterranean Games	Bari, Italy	2nd	20 km	1:25:21
1998	European Championships	Budapest, Hungary	11th	20 km	1:25.54
1999	World Championships	Seville, Spain	10th	20 km	1:26:00
2000	European Race Walking Cup	Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany	14th	20 km	1:21:51
2000	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	11th	20 km	1:21:43
2002	European Championships	Munich, Germany	—	20 km	DSQ
2003	World Championships	Paris, France	16th	20 km	1:21:23
2005	Mediterranean Games	Almería, Spain	3rd	20 km	1:26:06

National titles

Italian Athletics Championships
- 10 km walk: road: 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001
- 20 km walk: road: 1995
- 50 km walk: road: 1998

References

↑ "CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" – UOMINI TUTTI I CAMPIONI – 1906-2016" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
↑ "Walk champion Schwazer excluded for doping". uk.reuters.com. 6 August 2012. Archived from the original on August 17, 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2015. "I trusted him, he took me for a ride. Just to think, a few months ago I put my daughter Micol in his arms for her baptism," Schwazer's coach Michele Didoni, himself a former race walking world champion, told Italian news agency AGI.

External links

Michele Didoni at World Athletics

Michele Didoni at the Italian Athletics Federation (in Italian)

Michele Didoni at the CONI honored athlete website (in Italian)

Michele Didoni at Olympedia

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[1] "CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" – UOMINI TUTTI I CAMPIONI – 1906-2016" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 16 August 2017.

[2] "Walk champion Schwazer excluded for doping". uk.reuters.com. 6 August 2012. Archived from the original on August 17, 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2015. "I trusted him, he took me for a ride. Just to think, a few months ago I put my daughter Micol in his arms for her baptism," Schwazer's coach Michele Didoni, himself a former race walking world champion, told Italian news agency AGI.

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