Nadia Battocletti

Nadia Battocletti
Battocletti at the 2023 European Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey
Personal information
National teamItaly: 15 caps (2020-)[1]
Born (2000-04-12) 12 April 2000
Cles, Trentino, Italy
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight49 kg (108 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
Events
Middle-, Long-distance running
Cross-country running
ClubG.S. Fiamme Azzurre
Coached byGiuliano Battocletti (her father)
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • 1500 m: 3:59:19 (2024)
  • 3000 m: 8:50.66 (2022)
  • 5000 m: 14:23.15 NR (2025)
  • 10,000 m: 30:38.25 NR (2025)
  • Indoor
  • 3000 m: 8:26.44 NR (2026)
  • Road
  • 5K run: 14:32 (2025)
  • 10K run: 30:08 (2026)[2]
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Italy
International competitions
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 0 1 0
World Championships 0 1 1
World Indoor Championships 1 0 0
European Championships 4 0 0
European Games 1 1 0
European Cross Country C'ships 7 4 0
European U23 Championships 1 0 0
European U20 Championships 0 1 1
Total 14 8 2
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place2024 Paris10,000 m
World Championships
Silver medal – second place2025 Tokyo10,000 m
Bronze medal – third place2025 Tokyo5000 m
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place2026 Toruń3000 m
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2024 Rome5000 m
Gold medal – first place2024 Rome10000 m
Gold medal – first place2026 Birmingham5000 m
Gold medal – first place2026 Birmingham10000 m
European Running Championships
Gold medal – first place2025 Brussels10 km
European Games
Gold medal – first place2023 Kraków-MałopolskaTeam race
Silver medal – second place2023 Kraków-Małopolska5000 m
European U23 Championships
Gold medal – first place2021 Tallinn5000 m
European U20 Championships
Silver medal – second place2019 Borås5000 m
Bronze medal – third place2017 Grosseto3000 m
European Cross Country Championships
Gold medal – first place2018 TilburgU20 race
Gold medal – first place2019 LisbonU20 race
Gold medal – first place2021 DublinU23 race
Gold medal – first place2021 DublinU23 team
Gold medal – first place2022 TurinU23 race
Gold medal – first place2024 AntalyaSenior race
Gold medal – first place2024 AntalyaSenior team
Gold medal – first place2025 LagoaSenior race
Silver medal – second place2017 ŠamorínU20 team
Silver medal – second place2019 LisbonU20 team
Silver medal – second place2022 TurinU23 team
Silver medal – second place2023 BrusselsSenior race
At the 2026 World Indoor Championships, held in Toruń, Poland, Battocletti won world title in 3000 m.
Battocletti (center) on the 10,000 m podium at the 2024 European Athletics Championships
At the 2022 European Cross Country Championships, held in Turin, Italy, Battocletti took her fourth consecutive continental age-group cross country victory.
Battocletti's triumphal finish in the U20 race at the 2019 European Cross Country Championships held in Lisbon, Portugal

Nadia Battocletti (born 12 April 2000)[3] is an Italian middle- and long-distance runner. She won the gold medal in the 5000 and 10,000 m races at the 2024 European Championships in Rome. At the 2024 Summer Olympics she won a silver medal in the 10,000 m and placed fourth in the 5000 m race. At the 2025 World Championships she won the silver medal in the 10,000 m and gold medal at the 2026 World Indoor Championships in 3000 m.[3]

Biography

Battocletti was born on 12 April 2000 in Cles, Trentino, to an Italian father and a Moroccan-born mother.[4] As of 2022, she lives in her native Trentino region of northern Italy, where she was a student of architecture engineering at the University of Trento. She is coached by her father Giuliano, who also was, in the past, an important long-distance runner.[5] Battocletti is Muslim and has spoken about the challenges of adjusting her training schedule for Ramadan.[6]

Career

She won the gold medal for the 5000 metres at the 2021 European Under-23 Championships. Battocletti earned four individual gold medals in the U20 and U23 age groups at the European Cross Country Championships. She is the Italian record holder for the indoor 3000 metres and 5 km road race.

As a 17-year-old, Battocletti won the bronze medal in the 3000 m at the 2017 European U20 Championships. At the 2019 edition of this championships, she earned silver for the 5000 m. She represented Italy at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics competing in the 5000 m. She won an Italian national title at senior level in 2018, becoming the first Italian millennial to do that. Battocletti is a seven-time national senior champion and, as of 2023, has amassed 31 Italian titles across all surfaces and age-groups.[7]

In August 2019 in Gothenburg, Sweden, she broke Italian under-20 record in the 3000 metres that had lasted for more than 30 years in a time of 9:04.46.[8] In December that year, Battocletti was elected European Athlete of the Month by the European Athletic Association (EAA), the only Italian to succeed in this undertaking in 2019.[9]

At the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021, the 21-year-old competed in the women's 5000 metres event, finishing seventh in the final in a personal best of 14:46.29.[10]

2022–present

On 14 February 2022, Battocletti set her first senior Italian record at a meeting in Val-de-Reuil, France, breaking almost 15-year-old 3000 m indoor record of 8:44.81 established by Silvia Weissteiner; she clocked a 8:41.72 performance to finish second.[11] On 23 April that year, she broke the national best in the two miles in Milan. Just seven days later, Battocletti set an Italian record in the 5 km road race at the adizero Road to Records event in Herzogenaurach, Germany, improving her personal best by 42 seconds for sixth place. She broke Maura Viceconte's record dating back to 2000 by 32 seconds.[12]

The 22-year-old missed the World Championships held in Eugene, Oregon, U.S. in July with shin splints injury. In August, she was hit by glandular fever at the European Championships Munich 2022, where she finished seventh in the 5000 m.[5][13]

At the pre-championships press conference of the European Cross Country Championships on home soil in Turin in December, Battocletti revealed that she had been on antibiotics until ten days back. Despite this, she won decisively on a hilly and demanding 5.722 km course her fourth consecutive European Cross Country gold medal, successfully defending her U23 title. She became only the second runner in history to claim back-to-back U23 titles.[5]

At the Paris 2024 Olympics, Battocletti finished in fourth place in the women's 5000 metres, setting a national record for Italy with a time of 14:31.64. Initially upgraded to bronze following Faith Kipyegon's disqualification for obstruction, she was displaced from the podium after Kipyegon was reinstated following Kenya's successful appeal.[14][15] She proceeded to win the silver medal in the women's 10,000 metres, setting a national record for Italy with a time of 30:43.35.[16]

In 2025, Battocletti lowered her own Italian national record in the 10,000 m at the World Championships in Tokyo. She finished second overall in 30:38.23 and received the silver medal, her first World Championships medal.[17]

In 2026, despite being an outdoor specialist and training while observing Ramadan,[18] Battocletti won gold in the 3000 m at the World Indoor Championships.[19]

On 11 August 2026, Battocletti won the gold medal in the 5000 metres at the European Championships in Birmingham, England.[20][21] Three days later, she won the 10,000 metres gold medal.[22][23]

Statistics

Personal bests

She holds eight national records at the senior level.[3]

Outdoor
Indoor
  • 1500 metres: 4:03.59 (Madrid, Spain, 6 February 2026) NR
  • 3000 metres: 8:26.44 (Liévin, France, 19 February 2026) NR
Road

Achievements

Representing  Italy
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventTime
2016 European U18 Championships Tbilisi, Georgia 6th 3000 m 9:49.53
2017 World Cross Country Championships Kampala, Uganda 34th U20 race 21:27
European U20 Championships Grosseto, Italy 3rd 3000 m 9:24.01 PB
European Cross Country Championships Šamorín, Slovakia 5th XC 4.18 km U20 14:07
2nd U20 team 33 pts
2018 World U20 Championships Tampere, Finland 8th 3000 m 9:13.45 PB
European Cross Country Championships Tilburg, Netherlands 1st XC 4.3 km U20 13:46
5th U20 team 41 pts
2019 World Cross Country Championships Aarhus, Denmark 23rd U20 race 22:24
European U20 Championships Borås, Sweden 2nd 5000 m 16:09.39 PB
European Cross Country Championships Lisbon, Portugal 1st XC 4.3 km U20 13:58
2nd U20 team 29 pts
2021 European Team Championships Super League Chorzów, Poland 1st 5000 m 15:46.95
European U23 Championships Tallinn, Estonia 1st 5000 m 15:37.4
Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 7th 5000 m 14:46:29 PB
European Cross Country Championships Dublin, Ireland 1st XC 6.0 km U23 20:32
1st U23 team 18 pts
2022 European Championships Munich, Germany 7th 5000 m 15:10.90 SB
European Cross Country Championships Turin, Italy 1st XC 5.722 km U23 19:55
2nd U23 team 31 pts
2023 European Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey 4th 3000 m 8:44.96 SB
World Championships Budapest, Hungary 16th 5000 m 15:27.86
2024 European Championships Rome, Italy 1st 5000 m 14:35.29 CR, NR
1st 10,000 m 30:51.32 NR
Olympic Games Paris, France 4th 5000 m 14:31.64 NR
2nd 10000 m 30:43.35 NR
2025 European Running Championships Leuven, Belgium 1st 10 km 31:10
World Championships Tokyo, Japan 3rd 5000 m 14:55.42
2nd 10000 m 30:38.23
2026 World Indoor Championships Toruń, Poland 1st 3000 m 8:57.64
European Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 1st 5000 m 15:37.84
1st 10000 m 31:41.17

National titles

Battocletti has won 17 national championships at individual senior level.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Nadia Battocletti". fidal.it (in Italian). Retrieved 5 April 2026.
  2. ↑ "Battorecord! Nadia 30:08, primato nei 10 km". fidal.it (in Italian). 4 April 2026. Retrieved 5 April 2026.
  3. 1 2 3 "Nadia BATTOCLETTI – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  4. ↑ Giuseppe (2 August 2021). "Nadia Battocletti, figlia d'arte: chi è la mamma della mezzofondista". Ck12 Giornale (in Italian). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  5. 1 2 3 Turnbull, Simon (11 December 2022). "Report | Battocletti and Hicks reign again in the U23 races in La Mandria Park". European Athletics. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
  6. ↑ Lovelli, Luca (12 September 2025). "Italy's Olympic medallist Nadia Battocletti at World Athletics Championships 2025: From Tokyo to Tokyo, back to where it all began". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
  7. ↑ "Battocletti makes victorious 10,000m debut at the Italian 10,000m Championships". European Athletics. 8 May 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  8. ↑ Santangelo, Roberto (17 August 2019). "Nadia Battocletti centra il nuovo record italiano under 20 nei 3000 metri" (in Italian). Eurosport Italy. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  9. ↑ "Ingebrigtsen, Battocletti voted European Athletes of the Month for December". european-athletics.org. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  10. ↑ "Athletics BATTOCLETTI Nadia". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 14 October 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  11. ↑ "Battocletti breaks Italian indoor 3000m record in Val-de-Reuil". European Athletics. 15 February 2022.
  12. ↑ "Atletica, record italiano di Battocletti nei 5km in Germania". Corriere dello Sport (in Italian). 30 April 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  13. ↑ U23 Women's Race - FULL REPLAY | SPAR European Cross Country Championships Piemonte 2022. World Athletics. 15 December 2022. Event occurs at 0:15. Retrieved 15 December 2022 – via YouTube.
  14. ↑ "Kenya's Chebet wins 5,000m gold as Kipyegon gets silver". BBC. 5 August 2024.
  15. ↑ de Villiers, Ockert (5 August 2024). "Paris 2024 Athletics: Kenya's Beatrice Chebet Wins Maiden Women's 5,000m Title". Paris 2024 Olympics.
  16. ↑ Franculli, Lorenzo (9 August 2024). "Nadia Battocletti, cosa hai fatto? Per l'azzurra un clamoroso argento nei 10.000". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  17. ↑ Broadbent, Chris (13 September 2025). "Brilliant Battocletti wins world 10,000m silver in Tokyo". European Athletics. Retrieved 13 September 2025.
  18. ↑ "Tutta l'emozione di Nadia Battocletti dopo il trionfo ai Mondiali indoor di Torun". SkySport. 22 March 2026.
  19. ↑ "Women's 3000m Final Results". World Athletics. 21 March 2026.
  20. ↑ "Nadia Battocletti blasts to 5000m victory in Birmingham". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
  21. ↑ "Women's 5000m report - Battocletti wins sixth European title". European Athletics. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
  22. ↑ "Battocletti completes the distance double as Keith's bold front-running falls short of a medal". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  23. ↑ "Women's 10,000m report - Battocletti completes the distance double-double". European Athletics. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  24. ↑ "Festa del Cross: Battocletti 30 e lode". fidal.it (in Italian). 12 March 2023. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
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