 Lingua in 2018. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1978-06-04)4 June 1978 (age 46) Chivasso, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft10+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 94 kg (207 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Hammer throw | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Marco Lingua 4ever | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Marco Lingua (born 4 June 1978 inChivasso, Piedmont) is anItalianhammer thrower, writer, actor, TV personality and formerweightlifter.He finished eleventh at the2006 European Championships. He also competed at the2008 Olympic Games without reaching the final. His personal best throw is 79.97 metres, achieved in July 2008 inBydgoszcz.For the results of the races in detail see the displayboards below.
He started practicing athletics in 1994 at the age of 16, category Allievi, with a company in his hometown, the Chivassesi Sports Group. He then served inCUS Torino, in theItalian Air Force and from 1998 to 2014 in thePolisportiva Libertas OranfreshCatania. He then moved on to theFiamme Gialle with whom he competed from 1999 to 2014; in 2015 he was registered forAtletica Sandro Calvesi ofAosta and from 2016 he competed forASD Marco Lingua 4ever byMazzè.
In 1995 he won his first Italian youth title under 18. During the two-year juniors, 1996–1997, he doubles Italian under-20 titles. Also in 1997 he arrived seventh at the Junior European Championships inLjubljana (Slovenia). The year 1998 sees him win three medals in the hammer at the Italian championships: silver promises of winter launches, gold under 23 and bronze to the absolutes of Rome. In the same year he also won the Italian junior weightlifting title.
In 1999 he won three medals at the Italian championships: gold under 23 and absolute bronze at the winter of pitches, gold at the national promises and bronze at the absolutes ofPescara. Participate in the under 23 European Championships inGothenburg (Sweden) but remain out of the final. On 9 October, inMacerata, he signed the new best Italian performance Promesse with 76.72 m, beating the previous record of 75.60 m held by Loris Paoluzzi since 1996.
In 2000 Italian champion reconfirmed promises both to the winter of launches and the championships of the category; on the other hand, the absolute ends fourth at the winter of launches and conquers the bronze at the absolute ofMilan.
In 2001 he won two bronzes, one for the winter of pitches and the other for the absolutes ofCatania; he also graduates the absolute Italian champion ofweightlifting in his category of +105 kg.
In 2002 he became the absolute Italian weightlifting champion (+105 kg category), bronze and absolute silver respectively for the winter launches and theViareggio absolutes.
In 2003 he made his debut with the national team of the National seniors in the European Winter Cup of launches held in Italy inGioia Tauro, the city where he had become the same year, for the first time in his career, Italian absolute runner-up in the winter launches; always at the national championships he reaches sixth in the cast of weight for indoor absolutes and wins the bronze at theRieti absolutes. He competes, also in Italy, also at the Catania World Championships, finishing in seventh place.
During the two-year period 2004–2005 he finished sixth in Spain at the Mediterranean Games ofAlmería 2005 and, in the same year, eighth in the European Winter Cup of launches inMersin (Turkey); at the absolute Italian championships instead he becomes vicevampione inFlorence 2004 and then he graduates absolute champion to the winter of launches in 2005 (fourth to the absolute ofBressanone).
Year 2006: 11th at theGothenburg European Championships inSweden, eighth inIsrael inTel-Aviv in the specialty winterEuropean Cup; gold to the winter of pitches and silver to the absolute of Turin, still silver even to the absolute weightlifting (did not compete with the Italian seniors of weights).
Year 2007: champion for both the absolute winter of pitches (no valid measure for the absolutes ofPadova) and the absolute weightlifting (after the victory in the national seniors), second classified in France at the DécaNation of Paris and eighth in the Winter European Cup of launches inYalta (Ukraine).
2008 is the year of his firstOlympic Games: he takes part in China at the Olympic Games in Beijing, but he does three qualifying laps. Also in the international arena, he won theEuropean Winter Cup for launches inSplit, Croatia. In Italy he graduated as an absolute champion both inCagliari (silver at the winter of one-quarter throws from the champion Vizzoni) and in the weightlifting (gold medal also for the Italian seniors).
Year 2009: Wins the silver medal in both the Winter European Cup of launches inLos Realejos (Spain) and the World Cup inSofia (Bulgaria); in Italy at the Mediterranean Games inPescara he made three throws in the final ended in 11th place. In the national championships he obtains three silver medals: winter of pitches, absolute of Milan and absolute weight lifting (he does not compete instead with the Italian seniors).
Year 2010: Absolute vice-champion both for the winter of specialties and for the absolute ones ofGrosseto and seniors champion of weightlifting (silver medal for the absolute ones). He became the absolute vice-champion in Turin in 2011; while in winter the specialty does not make valid launches and instead the Italian weightlifting championships do not compete for seniors or absolutes.
The 2012 sees him present inFinland at the Europeans inHelsinki where he can not access the final; also at the Italian championships wins silver at the winter and bronze at the absolutes ofBressanone.
Year 2013: Wins a bronze and a silver respectively to the winter of launches and the absolutes of Milan; at the absolute national weightlifting ends in fifth place.
In 2014–2015 he obtains six medals at the absolute Italian championships: double silver in the hammer to the winter and the absolutes ofRovereto and bronze in weightlifting ('14), gold to the winter of specialty, bronze to the absolutes of Turin and silver to the national seniors of weightlifting, while the absolute does not finish the race ('15). Also in 2015 he took part in Russia at the European Championship for nations ofČeboksary, finishing in fifth position and then at the World Championships in Beijing in China, unable to reach the final.
Year 2016: Absolute Italian Champion title both at the winter launches and at the Rieti absolutes. In the international arena, he won the bronze medal inRomania in the Winter European Cup of launches inArad; he also took part in both theAmsterdam European Championships in theNetherlands, finishing in 11th place and theRio de Janeiro Olympic Games inBrazil, where he failed to gain access to the final.
Year 2017: In February he won in Rieti the absolute Italian title for the winter launches. Between the months of March and June he obtained twice the sixth position in continental seniors: on 12 March on the Spanish island ofGran Canaria, he competed in the Winter European Cup of launches, while on 25 June he competed in France in the Super League of the European Championships inVilleneuve d'Ascq /Lille. On 2 July, at the Italian absolute championships in Trieste, at the sixth and last launch available, he passed Simone Falloni and graduated with a 73.84 m national champion [7]. On 11 August he ranks 10th at the World Championships in London (Great Britain), with the measure of 75.13 m [8] (after having qualified for the final with the last available place).
On 24 February 2018 he won his 10th overall Italian title in Rieti (7 in the winter of launches and 3 in the absolute).10 March ends in tenth place inLeiria in the European winter Cup of launches inPortugal.
His use of five turns is quite unique among elite hammer throwing at present.[1]
During the 1990s he participated in television programsScommettiamo che...? (the Italian version ofWetten, dass..?) and8mm. In 2007 he participated, as an actor in the same part of himself, to theweb series NFDMT (episodeCarnevale a Ivrea directed byDavide Lingua, of Verolengo, & Michele Melillo) and in 2008 he wrote the autobiographical book, together with G. Mario Castaldi,L'uomo che vinse due volte.Recently he participated in the television programLo show dei record.
These are his personal bests year by year.[2]
The athlete for 27 consecutive seasons from 1998 to 2024, from 20 to 46 years old, managed to throw the hammer over 72 m.[3]
| Year (age) | Performance | Venue | Date | World Ranking |
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| 2024 (46) | 72.36 |  Cuneo | 16 June | 84 |
| 2023 (45) | 73.36 | Boissano | 27 June | 63 |
| 2022 (44) | 75.56 | Boissano | 9 April | 37 |
| 2021 (43) | 74.27 | Rovereto | 27 June | 59 |
| 2020 (42) | 72.37 | Mariano Comense | 1 Feb | 55 |
| 2019 (41) | 74.17 | La Spezia | 16 July | 51 |
| 2018 (40) | 74.71 |  Nikiti | 20 June | 39 |
| 2017 (39) | 77.23 | Turin | 7 May | 16 |
| 2016 (38) | 76.03 | Boissano | 28 September | 30 |
| 2015 (37) | 78.29 |  Loughborough | 18 July | 8 |
| 2014 (36) | 74.00 | Marano di Napoli | 13 September | 48 |
| 2013 (35) | 74.58 |  Ponce | 18 May | 46 |
| 2012 (34) | 76.10 |  Metz | 7 June | 47 |
| 2011 (33) | 76.12 | Turin | 26 June | 34 |
| 2010 (32) | 75.72 | Trento | 24 April | 38 |
| 2009 (31) | 79.66 |  Puerto de la Cruz | 15 March | 9 |
| 2008 (30) | 79.97 |  Bydgoszcz | 1 July | 15 |
| 2007 (29) | 77.65 | Nice | 28 April | 21 |
| 2006 (28) | 77.66 | Savona | 11 May | 25 |
| 2005 (27) | 76.07 |  Genève | 11 June | 38 |
| 2004 (26) | 75.67 | Pavia | 2 May | 48 |
| 2003 (25) | 74.97 | Genève | 14 June | 51 |
| 2002 (24) | 75.19 | Benevento | 26 May | 46 |
| 2001 (23) | 74.40 | Rome | 3 June | 51 |
| 2000 (22) | 73.52 | Milan | 7 September | 74 |
| 1999 (21) | 76.72 | Macerata | 9 October | 40 |
| 1998 (20) | 73.38 | Macerata | 10 October | 72 |
| 1997 (19) | 66.18 | Macerata | 4 October | 192 |
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Measure | Notes |
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| 2006 | European Championships | Gothenburg | 10th | Hammer throw | 73.73 m | [n 1] |
| 2008 | European Cup Winter Throwing | Split | 1st | Hammer throw | 77.84 m | |
| Olympic Games | Beijing | Qual. | Hammer throw | NM | ||
| World Athletics Final | Stuttgart | 6th | Hammer throw | 73.59 m | [4] | |
| 2009 | European Cup Winter Throwing | Los Realejos | 2nd | Hammer throw | 79.66 m | SB |
| World Military Championships | Sofia | 2nd | Hammer throw | 78.80 m | ||
| 2012 | European Championships | Helsinki | 21st | Hammer throw | 71.07 m | |
| 2015 | World Championships | Beijing | 19th | Hammer throw | 72.85 m | |
| 2016 | European Cup Winter Throwing | Arad | 3rd | Hammer throw | 74.51 m | |
| European Championships | Amsterdam | 10th | Hammer throw | 70.00 m | [n 2] | |
| Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro | Qual. | Hammer throw | NM | ||
| 2017 | World Championships | London | 10th | Hammer throw | 75.13 m | |
| 2018 | European Championships | Berlin | Qual. (13th) | Hammer throw | 73.07 m | [n 3] |
| 2022 | Mediterranean Games | Oran | 6th | Hammer throw | 70.70 m |
Marco Lingua has won18 times the individualnational championship.[5][6][7]
6th IAAF/VTB Bank World Athletics Final – 6th – 73.59 Stuttgart (Gottlieb-Daimler Stadion) – 14 SEP 2008
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