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Italy at the 2010 European Athletics Championships
WA code	ITA
in Barcelona
Competitors	73
Medals Ranked 8th	Gold 2 Silver 3 Bronze 3 Total 8
European Athletics Championships appearances (overview)
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Italy was represented by 73 athletes (44 men and 29 women) at the 2010 European Athletics Championships held in Barcelona, Spain. It is the third most important team selection, after those of Munich 2002 and Göteborg 2006. The standard-bearer will be Antonietta Di Martino.

Medalists

Medal	Athlete	Event
	Alex Schwazer	Men's 20 km walk
	Anna Incerti	Women's marathon
	Roberto Donati Simone Collio Emanuele Di Gregorio Maurizio Checcucci	Men's 4 × 100 m relay
	Nicola Vizzoni	Men's hammer throw
	Simona La Mantia	Women's triple jump
	Daniele Meucci	Men's 10,000 m
	Libania Grenot	Women's 400 m
	Chiara Bazzoni Marta Milani Maria Enrica Spacca Libania Grenot	Women's 4 × 400 m relay

Medals awarded years later after doping cases

Incerti, third at the finish line, won gold medal after the disqualification of first two athletes two years later. Živilė Balčiūnaitė of Lithuania originally won the marathon and was awarded the gold medal, but was disqualified for doping after she tested positive for testosterone. Nailiya Yulamanova of Russia originally came second, and was set to be upgraded to gold winner after Živilė Balčiūnaitė was disqualified. However, in July 2012, Yulamanova was also disqualified for doping, as her results from 20 August 2009 onwards were annulled due to abnormalities in her biological passport profile. Anna Incerti (gold), Tetyana Filonyuk (silver) and Isabellah Andersson (bronze) received the medals by mail.

Edition	New medal	Finished	Event	Athlete	Disqualified athlete (position)	Years for decision-making	Notes
2010 Barcelona			Men's 20 km race walk	Alex Schwazer	Stanislav Emelyanov (original 1st)	4
			Women's marathon	Anna Incerti	Živilė Balčiūnaitė (original 1st) Nailya Yulamanova (original 2nd)	1 (became 2nd) 2 (became 1st)
		4th	Women's 4 × 400 m relay	Chiara Bazzoni Marta Milani Maria Enrica Spacca Libania Grenot	Russia (original 1st)	2
		4th	Women's 400 m	Libania Grenot	Tatiana Firova (original 1st)	9

Participants

See also

• Italy national athletics team

References

1. European marathon champion Balciunaite given doping ban, bbc.com, 5 April 2011
2. Associated Press: Zivile Balciunaite loses appeal, espn.com, 4 February 2012
3. London 2012 Olympics: Russian athletics trio banned for doping offences. Daily Telegraph (3 July 2012). Retrieved on 17 July 2014
4. "Atletica, Schwazer oro europeo dopo 4 anni. Dopato il trionfatore di Barcellona" (in Italian). gazzetta.it. 30 July 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
5. "European marathon champion Balciunaite given doping ban". bbc.com. 5 April 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
6. "London 2012 Olympics: Russian athletics trio banned for doping offences". telegraph.co.uk. 3 July 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
7. "2010 European Athletics Championships - 4 x 400m Women - Final". european-athletics.org. 25 July 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2018. DQ IAAF Rule 32.2.a
8. "A Grenot il bronzo europeo di Barcellona 2010" (in Italian). fidal.it. Retrieved 22 September 2019.

External links

• Participants list

• Italy at the European Athletics Championships
• Nations at the 2010 European Athletics Championships
• 2010 in Italian sport