Eleonora Anna Giorgi (born 14 September 1989) is an Italian
race walker
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bronze medal at the
2019 World Athletics Championships
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. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in 20 km walk.
She is the
5000 metres race walk
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(outdoor, track) world record holder with the time of 20:01.80 sets on 18 May 2014 in
Misterbianco
Misterbianco ( scn, Mustariancu; lat-med, Monasterium Album, lit=White Monastery' or 'White Minster) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Catania in the Italian region Sicily, located about southeast of Palermo and about w ...
.
Biography
On 9 June 2012 in A Coruña, one leg of IAAF Race Walking Gran Prix 2012 she obtained the "standard A" for
2012 Summer Olympics
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, on 13 March at the
2012 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
The 2012 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held in Saransk, Russia, on 12–13 May 2012.Saransk ( Russia) she ranked 14th, matching the other FIDAL requirement (classify among the first 20 athletes) for
FIDAL
The Italian Athletics Federation (Italian: ''Federazione Italiana di Atletica Leggera'', FIDAL), is the governing body for athletics in Italy since 1906.
The Italian Federation, founded on 21 October 1906, on initiative of ''La Gazzetta dello Sp ...
). On 6 July 2012 she won the race in
Bressanone
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Geography
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walking 10 km in 45 min 19 sec and received the gold medal.
On 29 September 2019 she won the bronze medal at the first edition of the
50 km race walk
The 50 kilometre race walk was an Olympic athletics event that first appeared in 1932 and made its final Olympic appearance in 2021. The racewalking event is competed as a road race. Athletes must always keep in contact with the ground and the ...
at the
2019 World Athletics Championships
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in Doha, Qatar, race held at night from 11 pm to 3 am the following morning, to try to alleviate the strong heat. She is engaged to the Italian racewalker
Matteo Giupponi
Matteo Giupponi (born 8 October 1988) is a male Italian racewalker who was bronze medal at the 2022 European Athletics Championships.
He is engaged to the Italian racewalker Eleonora Giorgi.
Career
He competed at the 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019 e ...
.
Statistics
World records
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5000 metres race walk
The 5000 metres race walk is a racewalking event. The event is competed as a track race and was part of the athletics programme for men at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics until 1993. It is also an event in the World Masters Athle ...
(track): 20:01.80 (
Misterbianco
Misterbianco ( scn, Mustariancu; lat-med, Monasterium Album, lit=White Monastery' or 'White Minster) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Catania in the Italian region Sicily, located about southeast of Palermo and about w ...
, 18 May 2014) – current holder
European records
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50 km walk
The 50 kilometre race walk was an Olympic athletics event that first appeared in 1932 and made its final Olympic appearance in 2021. The racewalking event is competed as a road race. Athletes must always keep in contact with the ground and the ...
(road): 4:04:50 (
Alytus
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, 19 May 2019) – current holder.
Achievements
National titles
Giorgi won seven national championships at individual senior level.
* Italian Athletics Championships
**10 km (road): 2012, 2019 (2)
**20 km (road): 2021 (1)
**35 km (road): 2021 (1)
**10,000 m (track): 2017 (1)
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Italian Indoor Athletics Championships
The Italian Athletics Indoor Championships ( it, Italian Athletics Indoor Championships) are the national championships in athletics of the indoor events, organised every year by the Federazione Italiana di Atletica Leggera from 1970 (first edition ...
List of Italian records in athletics
The following are the national records in athletics in Italy maintained by its national athletics federation, Federazione Italiana di Atletica Leggera (FIDAL).
Outdoor
Key to tables:
+ = en route to a longer distance
h = hand timing
A = af ...
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Italian team at the running events
The Italian team at the running events represents Italy at senior level at the road running ( marathon, half marathon), racewalking, cross country running and track long-distance running (10,000 metres) events, such as World championships, World ...