Venanzio Ortis is an Italian retired long-distance runner who won two medals at the 1978 European Championships.
Cosimo Caliandro was an Italian middle distance runner who won a gold medal at the 2007 European Indoor Championships.
Daniele Meucci is an Italian athlete who specialises in long-distance running, including track running, cross country and road running who won twenty medals at international level.
Silvana Cruciata is a former Italian middle- and long-distance runner. She represented Italy at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and shared medals with the Italian women's teams at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships. Her best of 18.084 km for the one hour run set in 1981 was a world record for over seventeen years.
Yemaneberhan "Yeman" Crippa is an Ethiopian-born Italian long-distance runner. He won the gold medal in the 10,000 metres and bronze for the 5000 metres at the European Athletics Championships in 2022, and bronze in the 10,000 m in 2018. Crippa claimed four medals in the age-group races at the European Cross Country Championships and a bronze in the senior race in 2019.
Salvatore Vincenti is an Italian male retired middle-distance runner, who won a gold medal at international senior level at the 1999 European Cup. He also participated at the 1999 World Championship in Athletics.
Federica Dal Ri is an Italian female long-distance runner who won a gold medal at the World Military Track and Field Championships.
Claudio Solone is a former Italian male long-distance runner who competed at four editions of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, and won two national championships at senior level.
Aldo Tomasini is a former Italian male long-distance runner who competed at three editions of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, and won three national championships at senior level (two outdoor and one indoor.
Simone Zanon is a former Italian male long-distance runner who competed at five editions of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at senior level. He won two national championships at senior level.
Michele Gamba is a former Italian male long-distance runner who competed at two editions of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at senior level. and four of the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.
Patrizia Tisi is a former Italian female long-distance runner who competed at four editions of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at senior level. and two of the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.
Sara Palmas is a former Italian female middle and long-distance runner who competed at one edition of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at senior level (2001).
Serenella Sbrissa is a former Italian female middle and long-distance runner who competed at one edition of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at senior level (1998).
Giulia Aprile is an Italian middle-distance runner who competed at one edition of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at senior level (2017).
Rosita Rota Gelpi is a former Italian female mountain runner who won two World Mountain Running Championships.
Michela Zanatta is a former Italian female middle-distance runner who competed at two editions of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at senior level.
Lorenzo Perrone is a former Italian male middle-distance runner who won two national titles at senior level and that in 2003 ranking in 24th place at the end of season in the World list of the 3000 metres indoor, thanks to this good performance he participated at the 2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
Lorenzo Lazzari is a former Italian male middle-distance runner who won a bronze medal at the 1999 Summer Universiade.
Simone Gariboldi is an Italian male middle distance runner who won two national titles at senior level. He participated at the 2014 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.
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