# Italy at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics

Italy competed at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, held from August 15 to August 23. On August 3, the Italian national athletics federation (FIDAL) revealed the final team composed of 40 athletes (24 men and 16 women), but on 8 August, after a last test competition in Grosseto, Andrew Howe, in accordance with FIDAL, decided not to compete in Berlin. Just before publishing the team, Faloci, a discus thrower, also decided not to compete.
Italy did not win a single medal in the championships, the first time ever in the history of the World Athletics Championships that Italy have failed to win a medal, the first time since Melbourne 1956 in any major championships (World, Olympics or European), but the medals of some of the athletics world championship races in 2009 were otherwise awarded 24 March 2016 as a result of doping disqualifications. Among these reallocations also the medals of 20 km walk, which saw the Italian Giorgio Rubino, initially 4th, get the bronze medal This fact, 7 years after the event, allowed Italy to clear the zero in the Medal table. On 6 February 2018 IAAF disqualified Anna Chicherova for doping, 2nd in the high jump, so also Antonietta Di Martino was advanced to bronze medal.

## Medalists

| Athlete | Gendre | Event | Medal |
| Giorgio Rubino | Men | 20 Kilometres Race Walk | BRONZE |
| Antonietta Di Martino | Women | High jump | BRONZE |

## Finalists

Italy national athletics team ranked 17th (with 9 finalists) in the IAAF placing table. Rank obtained by assigning eight points in the first place and so on to the eight finalists.
| Rank | Country | | | | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Pts |
| 17 | Italy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 25 |

## Results

For the Italian national team participated at the events 35 athletes, 20 men and 15 women.

### Men (20)
#### Track events

| Event | Athletes | Heat Round 1 | Heat Round 1 | Heat Round 2 | Heat Round 2 | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Event | Athletes | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank |
| 100 m | Simone Collio | 10.49 | 4 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 100 m | Fabio Cerutti | 10.36 | 3 | 10.37 | 7 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 100 m | Emanuele Di Gregorio | 10.35 | 2 | 10.26 | 4 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 200 m | Matteo Galvan | DNS | DNS | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 400 m | Matteo Galvan | 45.86 | 24 | - | - | 46.87 | 24 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 800 m | Lukas Rifesser | 1:53.31 | 18 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 1500 m | Christian Obrist | 3:43:41 | 8 | - | - | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 5000 m | Daniele Meucci | 13:37:49 | 14 | - | - | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 20km walk | Ivano Brugnetti | - | - | - | - | - | - | DNF | DNF |
| 20km walk | Jean-Jacques Nkouloukidi | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1:23:07 | 21 |
| 20km walk | Giorgio Rubino | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1:19:50 | 3 |
| 50km walk | Diego Cafagna | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4:08:04 | 28 |
| 50km walk | Marco De Luca | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3:46:31 | 7 |
| 50km walk | Alex Schwazer | - | - | - | - | - | - | DNF | DNF |
| 4 × 100 m relay | Italy Roberto Donati Simone Collio Emanuele Di Gregorio Fabio Cerutti | 38:52 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 38:54 | 6 |

#### Field events

| Event | Athletes | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final |
| Event | Athletes | Result | Rank | Result | Rank |
| Pole vault | Giuseppe Gibilisco | 5.65 | 5 | 5.65 | 7 |
| Triple jump | Fabrizio Donato | 15.81 | 41 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Triple jump | Daniele Greco | 16.18 | 34 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Triple jump | Fabrizio Schembri | 16.88 | 15 | did not advance | did not advance |
| High jump | Giulio Ciotti | 2.27 | 9 | 2.23 | 11 |
| Hammer throw | Nicola Vizzoni | 76.95 | 7 | 73.70 | 9 |

### Women (15)
#### Track events

| Event | Athletes | Heat Round 1 | Heat Round 1 | Heat Round 2 | Heat Round 2 | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Event | Athletes | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank |
| 400 m | Libania Grenot | 51.45 | 2 | - | - | 50.85 | 4 | did not advance | did not advance |
| 800 m | Daniela Reina | 2:06:30 | 5 | - | - | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 800 m | Elisa Cusma | 2:02:33 | 1 | - | - | 2:00:61 | 1 | 1:58:81 | 6 |
| 5000 m | Silvia Weissteiner | 15:20:88 | 12 | - | - | - | - | 15:09:74 | 7 |
| 3000 m s'chase | Elena Romagnolo | 9:56:61 | 14 | - | - | - | - | did not advance | did not advance |
| 20km Walk | Elisa Rigaudo | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1:31:52 | 8 |
| 20km Walk | Valentina Trapletti | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1:35:33 | 17 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Italy Marta Milani Daniela Reina Maria Enrica Spacca Libania Grenot | 3:31:05 | 5 | - | - | - | - | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |

#### Field and combined events

| Event | Athletes | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final |
| Event | Athletes | Result | Rank | Result | Rank |
| High jump | Antonietta Di Martino | 1.95 | 4 | 1.99 | 3 |
| Pole vault | Anna Giordano Bruno | 4.50 | 13 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Triple jump | Magdelín Martínez | 13.87 | 21 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Hammer throw | Clarissa Claretti | 70.01 | 12 | 71.56 | 8 |
| Hammer throw | Silvia Salis | 68.55 | 17 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Hammer throw | Chiara Rosa | 17.89 | 16 | did not advance | did not advance |