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Alessandro Attene

Personal information
Nationality	Italian
Born	(1977-09-10) 10 September 1977 (age 47) Recanati, Italy
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Country	Italy
Sport	Athletics
Event	Sprint
Club	G.S. Fiamme Azzurre
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	100 m: 10.33 (2005) 200 m: 20.57 (1997) 200 m indoor: 20.94 (2001) 400 m: 45.35 (2000)
Medal record Event 1st 2nd 3rd Summer Universiade 0 0 1 Mediterranean Games 1 1 0 European U23 Championships 0 1 0 Summer Universiade 1999 Palma de Mallorca 4x400 m relay Mediterranean Games 2005 Almeria 4x400 m relay 2005 Almeria 200 m European U23 Championships 1997 Turku 200 m

Alessandro Attene (born 10 September 1977 in Recanati, Province of Macerata) is a retired Italian sprinter who specialized in the sprint.

Biography

He won four medals (three at senior level), at the International athletics competitions, two of these with national relays team. His personal best time is 45.35 seconds, achieved in the heats of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He also competed at the 1997 and 2001 World Championships, the 2001 World Indoor Championships and the 2002 European Championships without ever reaching the final. He did win a silver medal in the 200 metres and gold medal in the relay 4x100 at the 2005 Mediterranean Games. He participated in the Summer Olympics in 2000, he has 16 caps in national team from 1994 to 2005.

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Italy
1996	World Junior Championships	Sydney, Australia	12th (sf)	200m	21.53 (wind: -2.9 m/s)
			6th	4 × 100 m relay	40.18
1997	European U23 Championships	Turku, Finland	2nd	200m	20.68 (wind: 0.3 m/s)
			4th	4 × 100 m relay	39.71
			7th	4 × 400 m relay	3:08.00
2000	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	15th (sf)	400 m	46.41

National titles

He has won times the individual national championship three times.

• 1 win in the 200 metres (2004)
• 2 wins in the 200 metres indoor (2001, 2002)

See also

• Italian all-time lists - 400 metres
• Italy national relay team

References

1. "PODIO INTERNAZIONALE DAL 1908 AL 2008 - UOMINI" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
2. Mediterranean Games - GBR Athletics
3. Annuario dell'Atletica 2009. FIDAL. 2009.
4. He ran a better time (45.35, his all-time personal best), in the quarter-finals.
5. ""CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" ITALIANI SUL PODIO TRICOLORE – 1906 2012" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
6. "ITALIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 28 December 2012.

External links

• Alessandro Attene at World Athletics
• Alessandro Attene at the Italian Athletics Federation (in Italian)
• Alessandro Attene at Olympics.com
• Alessandro Attene at Olympedia

v t e 2000 Italy Olympic Athletics Team
Men's track & road athletes	Alessandro Attene Stefano Baldini Rachid Berradi Ivano Brugnetti Daniele Caimmi Alessandro Cavallaro Maurizio Checcucci Andrea Colombo Giovanni De Benedictis Arturo Di Mezza Michele Didoni Giorgio Frinolli Alessandro Gandellini Andrea Giaconi Giacomo Leone Andrea Longo Giuseppe Maffei Vincenzo Modica Fabrizio Mori Giovanni Perricelli Emiliano Pizzoli Francesco Scuderi Stefano Tilli
Men's field athletes	Paolo Camossi Paolo Dal Soglio Fabrizio Donato Diego Fortuna Giuseppe Gibilisco Loris Paoluzzi Nicola Vizzoni
Women's track & road athletes	Erica Alfridi Roberta Brunet Francesca Carbone Virna De Angeli Ornella Ferrara Daniela Graglia Monika Niederstätter Elisabetta Perrone Fabiola Piroddi Annarita Sidoti Silvia Sommaggio Maura Viceconte
Women's field athletes	Gertrud Bacher Ester Balassini Claudia Coslovich Fiona May Mara Rosolen

• 1977 births
• Living people
• People from Recanati
• Italian male sprinters
• Athletics competitors of Fiamme Azzurre
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
• Olympic athletes for Italy
• World Athletics Championships athletes for Italy
• Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy
• Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
• Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
• Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
• FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Italy
• Italian Athletics Championships winners
• Medalists at the 1999 Summer Universiade
• Sportspeople from the Province of Macerata
• 20th-century Italian sportsmen
• 21st-century Italian sportsmen