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National team | Italy (15 caps) | |||||||||||||||||
Born | Magenta, Italy | 12 July 1985|||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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Country | Italy | |||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Racewalking | |||||||||||||||||
Club | C.S. Esercito | |||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Enzo Fiorillo | |||||||||||||||||
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Valentina Trapletti (born 12 July 1985) is a female racewalker from Italy, who participated at three World championships and won seven national titles. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in 20 km walk. [1]
She competed in the Women's 20 kilometres walk event at the IAAF World Championships of Berlin 2009 and London 2017. [2] His best season was 2009, when she was 24 years old, was 6th at the Universiade of Belgrade and 16th at the World Championships in Berlin, setting up her Personal Best at the all two occasions. She also won two silver medals (in 2015 and 2017) in team rankings of the European Race Walking Cup. In 2018, she competed in the women's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2018 European Athletics Championships held in Berlin, Germany. [3] She finished in 9th place. [3]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Time | Notes |
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2009 | Universiade | Beograd | 6th | 20 km walk | 1:36.32 | PB |
World Championships | Berlin | 16th | 20 km walk | 1:35:33 | PB | |
2017 | World Championships | London | 15th | 20 km walk | 1:30:35 | PB |
2019 | World Championships | Doha | 17th | 20 km walk | 1:38:22 |
She won 8 national championships at senior level. [4]
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