The Stadio Olimpico is the largest sports facility in Rome, Italy, seating over 70,000 spectators. It is located within the Foro Italico sports complex, north of the city. The structure is owned by the Italian National Olympic Committee and it is used primarily for association football. The Stadio Olimpico is the home stadium of the Roma and Lazio football clubs, and also hosts the Coppa Italia final. It was rebuilt for the 1990 FIFA World Cup and it hosted the tournament final.
The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletics since 1983. It is equivalent to 1.5 kilometers or approximately 15⁄16 miles.
Ileana Salvador is a former Italian race walker who won eight medal at the World Championships and European Championships
Maria Curatolo is a former Italian long-distance runner who specialized in the marathon race.
Nadia Dandolo is a former Italian long-distance runner, two-time it the top eight at European Championships and one at the European Indoor Championships (1991).
Cosimo Caliandro was an Italian middle distance runner who won a gold medal at the 2007 European Indoor Championships.
Antonella Capriotti is a retired Italian long jumper and triple jumper.
Chiara Rosa is a female shot putter from Italy.
The Italian Athletics Championships are the national championships in athletics, organised every year by the Federazione Italiana di Atletica Leggera.
Carla Tuzzi is an Italian former hurdler, who best result at international individual senior level was the 5th place in the final of the 1994 European Indoor Championships with the new national record.
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.
Roberta Bruni is an Italian pole vaulter. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Pole vault.
Anna Bongiorni is an Italian sprinter, whose most prestigious achievement at the international individual senior level is the bronze medal at the Universiade. Bongiorni is a two-time national champion at senior individual level. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in 100 m.
Raphaela Boaheng Lukudo is an Italian sprinter specialized in the 400 m, who won four medals at international senior level with Italian national track relay team of the 4×400 m relay.
The 2021 World Para Athletics European Championships was a track and field competition for athletes with a disability open to International Paralympic Committee (IPC) affiliated countries within Europe, plus Azerbaijan, Israel and a refugee team with one athlete. This was the 7th edition of the event. This was also the first time that the event was held in Poland. Around 670 athletes competed at the event.
Efrem Morelli is an Italian Paralympic swimmer. He represented Italy at the Summer Paralympics in 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2021 and he won the bronze medal in the 50 m breaststroke SB3 event in 2016.
Thaimi O'Reilly is a former Cuban-born Italian long jumper and triple jumper.
Marco Dodoni is a former Italian shot putter, five-time national champion at senior level, who competed in four editions of the European Championships.
