Nadia Battocletti she is the queen of European Athletics Championships Rome 2024. After the gold in the 5,000 metres, the champion from Trentino did an encore in the 10,000 meters under the gaze of the president Mattarella who stood up in the stands to applaud her. Then Battocletti went up to the stands to greet him and receive compliments. “The President was particularly emotional, it was a particular, evocative situation.”
The president’s boys: from Battocletti to Sibilio, Mattarella’s happiness by Mattia Chiusano 12 June 2024
Battocletti, the two gold medals and the Italian record
Never had an Italian athlete won two gold medals in the same edition of the European Championships: among the men they had succeeded Pietro Mennea (100 meters and 200 in Prague 1978) e Salvatore Antibo (5000 and 10,000, just like Nadia, in Split 1990). Overall, the 5000-10,000 double was achieved among women Sonia O’Sullivan (1998), Elvan Abeylegesse (2010) and Yasemin Can (2016). “The defeat I took in Budapest at the World Championships a year ago helped me: without sweat, without sacrifices, without efforts you can’t achieve anything. I entered a different dimension, taking inspiration from the strongest middle-distance runners in the world, who range from 1500 to 10,000 metres. “, said Battocletti who also established the new Italian record with 30’51”32. “On the 5,000 I was focused, on the 10,000 I just wanted to have fun, in this stadium I experience everything as a wonder.”
Nadia Battocletti with the gold medal (afp)
Nadia Battocletti: the father is a coach, the mother is a former nineteenth-century player
Battocletti, born in 2000, was born in Cles, Trentino, and grew up in Cavareno, a small village with a thousand inhabitants in the Val di Non, training in the woods. Her father, Giuliano Battocletti, is a former middle-distance runner and marathon runner: he won bronze at the 1994 World Junior Championships in Lisbon in the 5,000 meters and won four overall Italian titles. Today he is Nadia’s coach. Nadia Battocletti’s mother is Jawhara Saddouguiformer Moroccan nineteenth-century designer.
Athletics, the new frontiers of Made in Italy: many life stories behind the medals by Emanuela Audisio 10 June 2024
Battocletti, height and weight
Nadia is 1.68 meters tall and weighs 49 kilograms. She is a member of Atletica Valli di Non e Sole, since 2018 she has been in the sports group of Blue Flames. In addition to middle distance running, he practiced cross-country and marathon running.
Nadia Battocletti, silver at the European cross-country championship: “The mud inspires me. Strength and delicacy, it really felt like I was dancing” by Cosimo Cito 11 December 2023
Gianluca Munari, who is Nadia Battocletti’s boyfriend
Nadia Battocletti is romantically linked to Gianluca Munariformer skier and now ski instructor, met in 2022 thanks to a mutual friend.
Battocletti: university, tennis, cheering
After graduating from the scientific high school of Cles, Nadia Battocletti enrolled in the faculty of Building Engineering and Architecture at the University of Trento, giving up her dream of studying Medicine. She was an Inter and Federer fan (she had named her dog Roger), and she had played tennis as a child. She is passionate about novels, she is afraid of insects, she listens to hardstyle music, but never before competitions: she prefers silence to concentrate. Her favorite dish is Mama Jawhara’s risotto, with saffron, truffle and taleggio.
