Marco Lingua (born 4 June 1978 in
Chivasso
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, Piedmont) is an
Italia
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n
hammer throw
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er, writer, actor, TV personality and former
weightlifter
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.
He finished eleventh at the
2006 European Championships. He also competed at the
2008 Olympic Games
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without reaching the final. His personal best throw is 79.97 metres, achieved in July 2008 in
Bydgoszcz
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.
For the results of the races in detail see the displayboards below.
Biography
Sport activity: Militancy Societies
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 in
CUS Torino
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, in the
Italian Air Force
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and from 1998 to 2014 in the
Polisportiva Libertas Oranfresh Catania
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. He then moved on to the
Fiamme Gialle
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The club's activity is carried out in the following twelve sports disciplines: sport of athletics, athletics, Swimming (sport), swimming, judo, ...
with whom he competed from 1999 to 2014; in 2015 he was registered for
Atletica Sandro Calvesi of
Aosta
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and from 2016 he competed for
ASD Marco Lingua 4ever by
Mazzè
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Mazzè borders the following municipalities: Vische, Candia Canavese, Moncrivello, Caluso, Cigliano, Villareggi ...
.
Sport activity: Titles and Participations
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 in
Ljubljana
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Slovenia
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). 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 of
Pescara
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. Participate in the under 23 European Championships in
Gothenburg
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Sweden
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) but remain out of the final. On 9 October, in
Macerata
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, 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 of
Milan
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.
In 2001 he won two bronzes, one for the winter of pitches and the other for the absolutes of
Catania
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; he also graduates the absolute Italian champion of
weightlifting
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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 the
Viareggio
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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 in
Gioia Tauro
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, 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 the
Rieti
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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 of
Almería
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2005 and, in the same year, eighth in the European Winter Cup of launches in
Mersin
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Turkey
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); at the absolute Italian championships instead he becomes vicevampione in
Florence
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2004 and then he graduates absolute champion to the winter of launches in 2005 (fourth to the absolute of
Bressanone
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Geography
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).
Year 2006: 11th at the
Gothenburg
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European Championships in
Sweden
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, eighth in
Israel
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in
Tel-Aviv
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in the specialty winter
European Cup
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; 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 of
Padova
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) 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 in
Yalta
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Ukraine
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).
2008 is the year of his first
Olympic Games
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: he takes part in China at the Olympic Games in Beijing, but he does three qualifying laps. Also in the international arena, he won the
European Winter Cup for launches in
Split
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, Croatia. In Italy he graduated as an absolute champion both in
Cagliari
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(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 in
Los Realejos
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(Spain) and the World Cup in
Sofia
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Bulgaria
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); in Italy at the Mediterranean Games in
Pescara
Pescara (; nap, label= Abruzzese, Pescàrë; nap, label= Pescarese, Piscàrë) is the capital city of the Province of Pescara, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. It is the most populated city in Abruzzo, with 119,217 (2018) residents (and approxim ...
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 of
Grosseto
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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 in
Finland
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at the Europeans in
Helsinki
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where he can not access the final; also at the Italian championships wins silver at the winter and bronze at the absolutes of
Bressanone
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.
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 of
Rovereto
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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 of
Čeboksary, 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 in
Romania
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in the Winter European Cup of launches in
Arad; he also took part in both the
Amsterdam
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European Championships in the
Netherlands
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, finishing in 11th place and the
Rio de Janeiro
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Olympic Games in
Brazil
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, 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 of
Gran Canaria
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, 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 in
Villeneuve d'Ascq
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Lille
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. 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
On 11 August he ranks 10th at the World Championships in London (Great Britain), with the measure of 75.13 m
(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 in
Leiria
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in the European winter Cup of launches in
Portugal
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.
Curiosity
His use of five turns is quite unique among elite hammer throwing at present.
Artistic activity
During the 1990s he participated in television programs
Scommettiamo che...? (the Italian version of
Wetten, dass..?) and
8mm. In 2007 he participated, as an actor in the same part of himself, to the
web series
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NFDMT (episode ''Carnevale a Ivrea'' directed by
Davide Lingua Davide is an Italian given name (common) and an Italian/Filipino surname (relatively rare), and may refer to:
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* Davide Alviti (born 1996), Italian basketball player
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, 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 program
Lo show dei record.
Progression
Achievements
National titles
Marco Lingua has won 16 times the individual
national championship
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.
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Italian Athletics Championships
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The first edition, four races only, wa ...
** Hammer throw: 2008, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 (7)
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Italian Winter Throwing Championships
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The first edition, four races only, wa ...
** Hammer throw: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 (9)
See also
*
Italian Athletics Championships - Multi winners
*
Italian all-time lists – Hammer throw
Notes
References
External links
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1978 births
Living people
People from Chivasso
Italian male hammer throwers
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Italy
World Athletics Championships athletes for Italy
Italian Athletics Championships winners
Sportspeople from the Metropolitan City of Turin
Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Mediterranean Games