Nadia Battocletti (born 12 April 2000)[1] is an Italian femalemiddle- andlong-distance runner. She won the gold medal in the 5000 m and 10000 m races at the2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome. At the2024 Summer Olympics, Battocletti won a silver medal in the10,000 m and placed fourth in the5000 m race.
As of July 2024, at the age of 24, she has won 11national titles at thesenior level.[2]
Battocletti was born on 12 April 2000 inCles to an Italian father (Giuliano Battocletti) andMoroccan-born mother.[3] As of 2022, she lives inTrentino region of northern Italy, and was a student ofarchitecture engineering at theUniversity of Trento. She iscoached by her father Giuliano who was in the past an important Italianlong-distance runner.[4]
She won the gold medal for the5000 metres at the2021 European Under-23 Championships. Battocletti earned four individual gold medals in the U20 and U23 age groups at theEuropean Cross Country Championships. She is theItalian record holder for the indoor3000 metres and5 km road race.
As a 17-year-old, Battocletti won the bronze medal in the 3000 m at the2017 European U20 Championships. At the2019 edition of this championships, she earned silver for the 5000 m. She represented Italy at the2020 Tokyo Olympics competing in the 5000 m. She won anItalian national title atsenior level in 2018, becoming the first Italianmillennial to do that. Battocletti is a seven-time national senior champion and, as of 2023, has amassed 31 Italian titles across all surfaces and age-groups.[5]
In August 2019 inGothenburg, Sweden, she broke Italian under-20 record in the3000 metres that had lasted for more than 30 years in a time of 9:04.46.[6] In December that year, Battocletti was electedEuropean Athlete of the Month by theEuropean Athletic Association (EAA), the only Italian to succeed in this undertaking in 2019.[7]
At the postponed2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021, the 21-year-old competed in the women's5000 metres event, finishing seventh in the final in a personal best of14:46.29.[8]
On 14 February 2022, Battocletti set her first senior Italian record at a meeting inVal-de-Reuil, France, breaking almost 15-year-old 3000 m indoor record of 8:44.81 established bySilvia Weissteiner; she clocked a 8:41.72 performance to finish second.[9] On 23 April that year, she broke the national best in thetwo miles inMilan. Just seven days later, Battocletti set an Italian record in the5 km road race at the adizero Road to Records event inHerzogenaurach, Germany, improving her personal best by 42 seconds for sixth place. She brokeMaura Viceconte's record dating back to 2000 by 32 seconds.[10]
The 22-year-old missed theWorld Championships held inEugene, Oregon, U.S. in July withshin splints injury. In August, she was hit byglandular fever at the European ChampionshipsMunich 2022, where she finished seventh in the 5000 m.[4][11]
At the pre-championships press conference of theEuropean Cross Country Championships on home soil inTurin 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 consecutiveEuropean Cross Country gold medal, successfully defending her U23 title. She became only the second runner in history to claim back-to-back U23 titles.[4]
At theParis 2024 Olympics, Battocletti finished in fourth place in thewomen's 5,000 metres, setting a national record for Italy with a time of 14:31.64. Initially upgraded to bronze followingFaith Kipyegon's disqualification for obstruction, she was displaced from the podium after Kipyegon was reinstated following Kenya's successful appeal.[12][13] She proceeded to win the silver medal in the women’s 10,000 metres, setting a national record for Italy with a time of 30:43.35.[14]
She holds 5 national records at the senior level.[1]
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | European U18 Championships | Tbilisi, Georgia | 6th | 3000 m | 9:49.53 |
| 2017 | World Cross Country Championships | Kampala, Uganda | 34th | U20 race | 21:27 |
| European U20 Championships | Grosseto, Italy | 3rd | 3000 m | 9:24.01PB | |
| European Cross Country Championships | Šamorín, Slovakia | 5th | XC 4.18 km U20 | 14:07 | |
| 2nd | U20 team | 33 pts | |||
| 2018 | World U20 Championships | Tampere, Finland | 8th | 3000 m | 9:13.45PB |
| European Cross Country Championships | Tilburg, Netherlands | 1st | XC 4.3 km U20 | 13:46 | |
| 5th | U20 team | 41 pts | |||
| 2019 | World Cross Country Championships | Aarhus, Denmark | 23rd | U20 race | 22:24 |
| European U20 Championships | Borås, Sweden | 2nd | 5000 m | 16:09.39PB | |
| European Cross Country Championships | Lisbon, Portugal | 1st | XC 4.3 km U20 | 13:58 | |
| 2nd | U20 team | 29 pts | |||
| 2021 | European Team Championships Super League | Chorzów, Poland | 1st | 5000 m | 15:46.95 |
| European U23 Championships | Tallinn, Estonia | 1st | 5000 m | 15:37.4 | |
| Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 7th | 5000 m | 14:46:29PB | |
| European Cross Country Championships | Dublin, Ireland | 1st | XC 6.0 km U23 | 20:32 | |
| 1st | U23 team | 18 pts | |||
| 2022 | European Championships | Munich, Germany | 7th | 5000 m | 15:10.90SB |
| European Cross Country Championships | Turin, Italy | 1st | XC 5.722 km U23 | 19:55 | |
| 2nd | U23 team | 31 pts | |||
| 2023 | European Indoor Championships | Istanbul, Turkey | 4th | 3000 m | 8:44.96SB |
| World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 16th | 5000 m | 15:27.86 | |
| 2024 | European Championships | Rome, Italy | 1st | 5000 m | 14:35.29CR,NR |
| 1st | 10,000 m | 30:51.32NR | |||
| 2024 | Olympic Games | Paris, France | 4th | 5000 m | 14:31.64NR |
| 2nd | 10,000 m | 30:43.35NR |
Battocletti has won11 national championships at individualsenior level.
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