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| Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1974-03-07) 7 March 1974 (age 50) Milan | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Italy | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Race walking | ||||||||||||||
| Club | C.S. Carabinieri | ||||||||||||||
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Michele Didoni (born 7 March 1974 in Milan) is an Italian retired race walker, world champion of the 20 km race walk at Gothenburg 1995.
Biography
He won six times the national championships at senior level. and after his retire, he was the coach of Italian Olympic champion Alex Schwazer.
Achievements
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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| Representing Italy
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| 1992 | World Junior Championships | Seoul, South Korea | 6th | 10,000 m | 41:42.75 |
| 1994 | European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 10th | 20 km | 1:23:21 |
| 1995 | World Race Walking Cup | Beijing, PR China | 5th | 20 km | 1:20:50 |
| World Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | 1st | 20 km | 1:19:59 | |
| 1996 | Olympic Games | Atlanta, United States | 34th | 20 km | 1:26:02 |
| 1997 | World Championships | Athens, Greece | 7th | 20 km | 1:23:14 |
| Mediterranean Games | Bari, Italy | 2nd | 20 km | 1:25:21 | |
| 1998 | European Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 11th | 20 km | 1:25.54 |
| 1999 | World Championships | Seville, Spain | 10th | 20 km | 1:26:00 |
| 2000 | European Race Walking Cup | Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany | 14th | 20 km | 1:21:51 |
| Olympic Games | Sydney, Australia | 11th | 20 km | 1:21:43 | |
| 2002 | European Championships | Munich, Germany | — | 20 km | DSQ |
| 2003 | World Championships | Paris, France | 16th | 20 km | 1:21:23 |
| 2005 | Mediterranean Games | Almería, Spain | 3rd | 20 km | 1:26:06 |
National titles
- Italian Athletics Championships
- 10 km walk: road: 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001
- 20 km walk: road: 1995
- 50 km walk: road: 1998
See also
References
- "CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" – UOMINI TUTTI I CAMPIONI – 1906-2016" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
- "Walk champion Schwazer excluded for doping". uk.reuters.com. 6 August 2012. Archived from the original on August 17, 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
"I trusted him, he took me for a ride. Just to think, a few months ago I put my daughter Micol in his arms for her baptism," Schwazer's coach Michele Didoni, himself a former race walking world champion, told Italian news agency AGI.
External links
- Michele Didoni at World Athletics
- Michele Didoni at the Italian Athletics Federation (in Italian)
- Michele Didoni at the CONI honored athlete website (in Italian)
- Michele Didoni at Olympedia
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- 1974 births
- Living people
- Italian male racewalkers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Italy
- Athletes from Milan
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Italy
- Athletics competitors of Centro Sportivo Carabinieri
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy
- Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Italy
- Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
- World Athletics Championships winners
- 20th-century Italian sportsmen
- 21st-century Italian sportsmen
- Italian Athletics Championships winners