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| Born | 24 February 1950 Scarnafigi, Italy |
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| Country |  Italy |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | Race walking |
Sandro Damilano (born 24 February 1950) is an Italian athletics coach.
He is the brother of the Italian twin race walker Maurizio and Giorgio, [1] which began to coached in the mid-1970s.
He was the coach of the Italy national athletics team until 2011, he coached Italian champion Elisabetta Perrone, Erica Alfridi and after also Alex Schwazer. [2] In 2012 he is the coach of the Chinese national of race walking. [3] [4]
He is one of the coaches of the Saluzzo Race Walking School, created by the town of Saluzzo in 2002, [5] the school is also the center for the diffusion of fitwalking and training center of international race walking. [6]
Giovanni De Benedictis is a retired Italian race walker, that won 9 medals at individual level, 7 of these at senior level, at the International athletics competitions. He participated at five editions of the Summer Olympics, this like only two others Italian athletes in track and field: the other racewalker champion Abdon Pamich and the sprinter Pietro Mennea. He also won four medals at the IAAF World Race Walking Cup team events.
Maurizio Damilano is an Italian former race walker. He won 15 individual medals, at senior level, at the International athletics competitions.
Elisa Rigaudo is an Italian race walker from Cuneo.
Arturo Di Mezza is a former Italian race walker who was 4th in the 50 km walk at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Alex Schwazer, OMRI, is an Italian race walker. He was the 2008 Olympic 50k walk champion.
Giorgio Rubino is an Italian race walker, bronze medal in the 20 km walk at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin.
Massimo Di Giorgio is a former Italian high jumper, who won three medals at senior level at the International athletics competitions.
Raffaello Ducceschi is an Italian former race walker who took fifth and eighth place in two Olympic Games.
The Men's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held on August 28 on a loop course starting and finishing at Gukchae-bosang Memorial Park in the center of Daegu. Forty-six men started the competition and 27 countries were represented.
Eleonora Anna Giorgi is an Italian race walker bronze medal at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in 20 km walk.
Emerson Esnal Hernández is a Salvadoran race walker. He began racing after a team of sports recruiters selected his best friend to try out, Hernández accompanied his friend, and one of the coaches at the try out noticed him. He represented El Salvador in the 50 km racewalk at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
The Saluzzo Race Walking School is an international race walking school in Saluzzo, Piedmont, Italy.
Giorgio Damilano is an Italian former race walker.
Italy has participated in all editions of the World Athletics Championships, held since the first edition of 1983 World Athletics Championships, winning 47 podiums, including 12 world titles, 15 silver medals and 19 bronze medals.
The Memorial Mario Albisetti, also known as the Lugano Trophy and GP Città di Lugano, is an annual racewalking competition over 20 kilometres that is held in March on the streets of Lugano, Switzerland. It was first held in 2003.
Anatoliy Vasilyevich Solomin is a former Soviet Ukrainian race walker. Solomin competed in men's 20 km walk at the 1980 Summer Olympics and contended for the gold medal, but was disqualified from the lead shortly before the finish. He was European indoor champion in men's 5000 m walk in 1983 and briefly held the 20 km world best. He was born in Komarovka in Penza Oblast.
Massimo Stano is a male Italian racewalker. He competed in the 20 kilometres walk event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China, finishing in the 19th position, and the same event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan, finishing in first place. On 24 July 2022, Stano won the 2022 World Athletics Championships with a championship record.
Federico Tontodonati is a male Italian racewalker who won six international medals at senior level at the race walk competitions. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in 20 km walk.
The 2016 IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships was the 27th edition of the global team racewalking competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations. It was held in Rome, Italy from 7 to 8 May 2016. It was the first edition of the tournament under its new name, having previously been known as the IAAF World Race Walking Cup since 1989.
Wang Kaihua is a Chinese male racewalking athlete. He has represented his country at the IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships in 2016, where he helped China to the team gold, and at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics, where he finished in seventh place.
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