Lorenzo Patta (born 23 May 2000) is an Italian sprinter who won a gold medal in 4×100 m relay at the

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in Tokyo, Japan. On 13 May 2021, running in

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in 10.13, he established the 7th Italian all-time performance on

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and at the same time he reached 41st place in the seasonal world ranking.

Career

He started athletics only during spring 2016, running at school games. Previously he was a football player at . In 2017, as a U18, he was second at the national indoors championships on 60 metres, with Valentina Piras as his coach, but continuing playing football. Then the same year, he won the 200 m outdoors. From 2018, he only competes in athletics with a new coach, Francesco Garau, as U20 (junior). He won the Italian titles outdoors (100 and 200 m) with a remarkable 10.37 (+2.3 m/s) for his first competition as a junior. He represented Italy at the 2018 World U20 Championships, at 200 m and at 4x100 m relay, where he did not finish the relay after qualifying Italian team for the final. The following year, he was also the last relay, winning the silver medal at the 2019 European U20 Championships in

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. In 2020, he ran 10.31 in

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, personal best, for winning U23 national title. In 2021, after a new personal best of 10.13 set in

, he replaced

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on 100 m in

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and finished second of the European Team Championships at his first selection in the senior Italian team.

National records

* 4×100 m relay: 37.50 (

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, 6 August 2021), he ran first leg in the team with

, Fausto Desalu, Filippo Tortu. - Current holder

Achievements

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Patta, Lorenzo 2000 births Living people Italian male sprinters Sportspeople from Sardinia Athletics competitors of Fiamme Gialle Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Italy Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field) Olympic athletes of Italy

Career

National records

Achievements

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