Italy at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics

Italy competed at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in Paris, France from 6 to 14 August 2005. The nation sent a delegation of 49 athletes (27 men and 22 women) and won one medal at the competition. Alex Schwazer was the bronze medallist in the men's 50 kilometres race walk and he achieved a national record of 3:41:54 hours in the process. It was an unexpected medal, as Schwazer knocked nearly twenty minutes off his previous best that year.[1] Among other Italian performances, three athletes finished fifth in field event finals: Nicola Ciotti (men's high jump), Giuseppe Gibilisco (men's pole vault) and Zahra Bani (women's javelin throw). Excluding the straight finals in the marathon and walks, six Italians reached the final of their track and field event.

Italy at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics
IAAF code	ITA
National federation	FIDAL
Website	www.fidal.it
in Helsinki
Competitors	49 (27 men, 22 women)
Medals Ranked 33rd	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 1
World Championships in Athletics appearances (overview)
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This was Italy's worst performance on the medal table at the World Championships at that point and presaged the outcome of no medals at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics.

Medalists

Athlete	Gender	Event	Medal
Alex Schwazer	Men	50 km walk	Bronze

Men

Event	Athlete	Round	Position	Result	Notes
100 m	Simone Collio	Heats	Q	10.27
		Quarterfinals	Eliminated	10.60
200 m	Andrew Howe	Heats	Q	21.08
		Quarterfinals	Eliminated	21.19
	Koura Kaba Fantoni	Heats	Eliminated	21.10
400 m	Andrea Barberi	Heats	q	45.70	PB
		Semifinals	Eliminated	47.10
800 m	Maurizio Bobbato	Heats	Eliminated	1:48.36
Marathon	Ottaviano Andriani	Final	17th	2:16:29
	Ruggero Pertile	Final	35th	2:21:34
	Stefano Baldini	Final	DNF
	Migidio Bourifa	Final	DNF
	Alberico Di Cecco	Final	DNF
20 km walk	Lorenzo Civallero	Final	14th	1:22:52	SB
	Ivano Brugnetti	Final	DNF
50 km walk	Alex Schwazer	Final		3:41:54	NR
	Marco De Luca	Final	13th	3:58:32
	Diego Cafagna	Final	DQ		[2]
High jump	Nicola Ciotti	Qualifying	q	2.27 m
		Final	5th	2.29 m
	Andrea Bettinelli	Qualifying	Eliminated	2.24 m
	Alessandro Talotti	Qualifying	Eliminated	NM
Pole vault	Giuseppe Gibilisco	Qualifying	q	5.45 m
		Final	5th	5.50 m
Triple jump	Paolo Camossi	Qualifying	Eliminated	16.23 m
Hammer throw	Nicola Vizzoni	Qualifying	Eliminated	70.77 m
Javelin throw	Francesco Pignata	Qualifying	Eliminated	72.17 m
4 × 100 m relay	Luca Verdecchia Simone Collio Massimiliano Donati Andrew Howe	Heats	DQ		[3]
4 × 400 m relay	Claudio Licciardello Edoardo Vallet Luca Galletti Andrea Barberi	Heats	Eliminated	3:04.40	[4]

Women

Event	Athlete	Round	Position	Result	Notes
100 m	Manuela Levorato	Heats	Q	11.46
		Quarterfinals	Eliminated	11.54
800 m	Elisa Cusma	Heats	Eliminated	2:05.95
1500 m	Eleonora Berlanda	Heats	Eliminated	4:14.54
400 m hurdles	Benedetta Ceccarelli	Heats	Q	56.00
		Semifinals	Eliminated	55.41	SB
	Monika Niederstätter	Heats	Q	57.18
		Semifinals	Eliminated	56.14
Marathon	Rosaria Console	Final	19th	2:32:47
20 km walk	Elisa Rigaudo	Final	7th	1:29:52
	Gisella Orsini	Final	25th	1:35:05
Long jump	Fiona May	Qualifying	Eliminated	6.51 m
Triple jump	Magdelín Martínez	Qualifying	Q	14.46 m
		Final	8th	14.31 m
	Simona La Mantia	Qualifying	Eliminated	14.00 m
Shot put	Assunta Legnante	Qualifying	q	18.06 m
		Final	10th	16.99 m
	Cristiana Checchi	Qualifying	Eliminated	16.67 m
	Chiara Rosa	Qualifying	Eliminated	17.32 m
Hammer throw	Clarissa Claretti	Qualifying	q	68.21 m
		Final	8th	64.76 m
	Ester Balassini	Qualifying	Eliminated	NM
Javelin throw	Zahra Bani	Qualifying	q	60.09 m
		Final	5th	62.75 m	PB
	Claudia Coslovich	Qualifying	Eliminated	55.78 m
4 × 100 m relay	Elena Sordelli Vincenza Calì Manuela Grillo Maria Aurora Salvagno	Heats	Eliminated	44.03

References

1. Kirdyapkin walks tall to 50km title. IAAF (2005-08-12). Retrieved 2018-03-20.
2. Rule 230.6a
3. Rule 170.7
4. Splits: Licciardello 46.8, Vallet 46.7, Galletti 45.75, Barberi 45.19

External links

• The “Azzurri” at the World Championships (from 1983 to 2015)