Paris 2024 Olympics, Italians to medal: Nadia Battocletti

Paris Olympics: blue medalists

Nadia Battocletti was born April 12, 2000, in Cavareno in Val di Non and began her athletic career training in Cies and in the dirt of forest trails. Athletics unites the whole family, since, dadà-coach Giuliano è a former blue middle-distance champion and mom Jahwara has a past on the Moroccan tracks.

She quickly established herself as an all-around runner and canò boast an enviable palmares in cross, road, mountain and track. At her Olympic debut in Tokyo 2020, she doesn’t falter and takes a place in the 5,000-meter final by storm and establishes herself as the second-ever Italian female runner thanks to a seventh-place finish with a time of 14:46.29.

In 2024 she put her signature on a double gold at the European Championships in Rome, setting a new national record in both the 5,000 (14:35.29) and the 10,000 meters (30:51.32). Motivated and ravenous, in Paris she wants to give everything she has, and more, to be able to relive the emotions she felt three years ago in Japan.

He obtained his diploma from the scientific high school and went to Trento to attend a degree program in construction engineering and architecture. In his spare time, he enjoys listening to hardstyle music and loves reading novels. Besides athletics, he follows Tennis with special interest.