Nadia Battocletti

Nadia Battocletti (born 12 April 2000)[1] is an Italian female middle- and long-distance runner. She won the gold medal for the 5000 metres at the 2021 European Under-23 Championships. Battocletti earned four individual gold medals in the U20 and U23 age groups at the European Cross Country Championships. She is the Italian record holder for the indoor 3000 metres and 5 km road race.

Nadia Battocletti
Battocletti at Istanbul 2023
Personal information
Born (2000-04-12) 12 April 2000
Cles, Italy
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight49 kg (108 lb)
Sport
CountryItaly
SportAthletics
Event(s)Middle-, Long-distance running
Cross-country running
ClubG.S. Fiamme Azzurre
Coached byGiuliano Battocletti
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Italy
International competitions
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
European Team Championships 1 0 0
European Cross Country C'ships 5 2 0
European U23 Championships 1 0 0
European U20 Championships 0 1 1
Total 7 3 1
European Team Championships
Gold medal – first place2021 Silesia5000 m
European U23 Championships
Gold medal – first place2021 Tallinn5000 m
European U20 Championships
Silver medal – second place2019 Borås5000 m
Bronze medal – third place2017 Grosseto3000 m
European Cross Country Championships
Gold medal – first place2018 TilburgU20 race
Gold medal – first place2019 LisbonU20 race
Gold medal – first place2021 DublinU23 race
Gold medal – first place2021 DublinU23 team
Gold medal – first place2022 TurinU23 race
Silver medal – second place2019 LisbonU20 team
Silver medal – second place2022 TurinU23 team
Battocletti triumphal finish in the U20 race at the 2019 European Cross Country Championships.

As a 17-year-old, Battocletti won the bronze medal in the 3000 m at the 2017 European U20 Championships. At the 2019 edition of this championships, she earned silver for the 5000 m. She represented Italy at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics competing in the 5000 m. She won an Italian national title at senior level in 2018, becoming the first Italian millennial to do that. Battocletti is a five-time national champion.

Biography

As of 2022, Nadia Battocletti, who lives in Trentino region of northern Italy, was a student of architecture engineering. She is coached by her father Giuliano who was in the past an important Italian middle distance runner.[2]

In August 2019 in Gothenburg, Sweden, she broke Italian under-20 record in the 3000 metres that had lasted for more than 30 years in a time of 9:04.46.[3] In December that year, Battocletti was elected European Athlete of the Month by the European Athletic Association (EAA), the only Italian to succeed in this undertaking in 2019.[4]

At the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021, the 21-year-old competed in the women's 5000 metres event, finishing seventh in the final in a personal best of 14:46.29.[5]

2022–present

On 14 February 2022, Battocletti set her first senior Italian record at a meeting in Val-de-Reuil, France, breaking almost 15-year-old 3000 m indoor record of 8:44.81 established by Silvia Weissteiner; she clocked a 8:41.72 performance to finish second.[6] On 23 April that year, she broke the national best in the two miles in Milan. Just seven days later, Battocletti set an Italian record in the 5 km road race at the adizero Road to Records event in Herzogenaurach, Germany, improving her personal best by 42 seconds for sixth place. She broke Maura Viceconte's record dating back to 2000 by 32 seconds.[7]

The 22-year-old missed the World Championships held in Eugene, Oregon, U.S. in July with shin splints injury. In August, she was hit by glandular fever at the European Championships Munich 2022, where she finished seventh in the 5000 m.[2][8]

At the pre-championships press conference of the European Cross Country Championships on home soil in Turin in December, Battocletti revealed that she had been on antibiotics until ten days back. Despite this, she won decisively on a hilly and demanding 5.722 km course her fourth consecutive European Cross Country gold medal, successfully defending her U23 title. She became only the second runner in history to claim back-to-back U23 titles.[2]

Achievements

Personal bests
Road

Achievements
YearCompetitionVenueRankEventMarkNotes
2016 European U18 Championships Georgia (country) Tbilisi 6th 3000 m 9:49.53
2017 World Cross Country Championships Uganda Kampala 34th U20 race 21:27
European U20 Championships Italy Grosseto 3rd 3000 m 9:24.01 PB
European Cross Country Championships Slovakia Šamorín 5th XC 4.18 km U20 14:07
2018 World U20 Championships Finland Tampere 8th 3000 m 9:13.45 PB
European Cross Country Championships Netherlands Tilburg 1st XC 4.3 km U20 13:46
2019 World Cross Country Championships Denmark Aarhus 23rd U20 race 22:24
European U20 Championships Sweden Borås 2nd 5000 m 16:09.39 PB
European Cross Country Championships Portugal Lisbon 1st XC 4.3 km U20 13:58
2nd U20 team 29 pts
2021 European Team Championships Super League Poland Chorzów 1st 5000 m 15:46.95
European U23 Championships Estonia Tallinn 1st 5000 m 15:37.4
Olympic Games Japan Tokyo 7th 5000 m 14:46:29 PB
European Cross Country Championships Republic of Ireland Dublin 1st XC 6.0 km U23 20:32
1st U23 team 18 pts
2022 European Championships Germany Munich 7th 5000 m 15:10.90 PB
European Cross Country Championships Italy Turin 1st XC 5.722 km U23 19:55
2nd U23 team 31 pts
2023 European Indoor Championships Turkey Istanbul 9th 3000 m 8:44.96 SB

National titles

Battocletti won six national championships at individual senior level.[9][10]

See also

References
  1. "Nadia BATTOCLETTI – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  2. Turnbull, Simon (11 December 2022). "Report | Battocletti and Hicks reign again in the U23 races in La Mandria Park". European Athletics. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
  3. Santangelo, Roberto (17 August 2019). "Nadia Battocletti centra il nuovo record italiano under 20 nei 3000 metri". Eurosport Italy (in Italian). Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  4. "Ingebrigtsen, Battocletti voted European Athletes of the Month for December". european-athletics.org. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  5. "Athletics BATTOCLETTI Nadia - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". Olympics.com/tokyo-2020/. IOC. Archived from the original on 14 October 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  6. "Battocletti breaks Italian indoor 3000m record in Val-de-Reuil". European Athletics. 15 February 2022.
  7. "Atletica, record italiano di Battocletti nei 5km in Germania". Corriere dello Sport (in Italian). 30 April 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  8. U23 Women's Race - FULL REPLAY | SPAR European Cross Country Championships Piemonte 2022. World Athletics. 15 December 2022. Event occurs at 0:15. Retrieved 15 December 2022 – via YouTube.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. "TUTTI I CAMPIONI ITALIANI 1906-2021" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. 1 January 2021. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  10. "Assoluti: altri 4 azzurri allo standard olimpico" (in Italian). fidal.it. 27 June 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  11. "Festa del Cross: Battocletti 30 e lode". fidal.it (in Italian). 12 March 2023. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
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