Nadia Battocletti
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Nadia Battocletti (born 12 April 2000)[3] is an Italian female 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]
Battocletti was born on 12 April 2000 in Cles to an Italian father (Giuliano Battocletti) and Moroccan-born mother.[4] As of 2022, she lives in Trentino region of northern Italy, and was a student of architecture engineering at the University of Trento. She is coached by her father Giuliano, who was, in the past, an important Italian long-distance runner.[5]
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.[6]
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.[7] 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.[8]
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.[9]
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.[10] 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.[11]
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][12]
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.[13][14] 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.[15]
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.[16]
In 2026, despite being an outdoor specialist and training while observing Ramadan[17], Battocletti won gold in the 3000 m at the World Indoor Championships.[18]
Statistics
Personal bests
She holds 8 national records at the senior level.[3]
- Outdoor
- 1500 metres: 3:58.15 (
Rovereto, 2 June 2025) - 3000 metres: 8:26.27 (
Rabat, 25 May 2025) NR - 5000 metres: 14:23.15 ( Rome, 6 June 2025) NR
- 10,000 metres: 30:38.23 (
Tokyo, 13 September 2025) NR - 2 miles: 30:08 ( Milan, 23 April 2022) NR
- Indoor
- 1500 metres: 4:03.59 (
Madrid, 6 February 2026) NR - 3000 metres: 8:26.44 (
Liévin, 19 February 2026) NR
- Road
Achievements
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 10,000 m | 30:43.35 NR | |||
| 2025 | World Championships | Tokyo, Japan | 3rd | 5000 m | 14:55.42 |
| 2nd | 10,000 m | 30:38.23 | |||
| 2026 | World Indoor Championships | Toruń, Poland | 1st | 3000 m | 8:57.64 |
National titles
Battocletti has won 15 national championships at individual senior level.[1]
- Italian Athletics Championships
- 1500 metres: 2021, 2025 (2)
- 5000 metres: 2018, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025 (5)
- 10,000 metres: 2023 (1)
- Italian 10 km road Championship
- 10 km road: 2023 (1)
- Italian Cross Country Championships
- Long course: 2021, 2022, 2023,[19] 2024, 2025, 2026 (6)
