Italian team announced for Berlin World Championships

The Italian squad for this month's 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Germany (15 – 23 August) has been announced.

The 40-member squad includes reigning Olympic 50Km Race Walk champion Alex Schwazer, who also captured bronze in the event in Osaka, and Elisa Rigaudo, the Olympic bronze medallist in the 20Km Race Walk.

Defending silver medallist in the Long Jump Andrew Howe has been provisionally entered, but his participation is dependent upon his performance at a meeting in Grosseto later this week. 2003 World Pole Vault champion Giuseppe Gibilisco's entry is also provisional, pending his performance in Cottbus on Saturday (8 Aug).

Men (24):
100m - Fabio Cerutti
100m - Simone Collio
100m - Emanuele Di Gregorio
200/400 - Matteo Galvan
800 - Lukas Rifesser
1500 - Christian Obrist
5000 - Daniele Meucci
HJ - Giulio Ciotti
PV - Giuseppe Gibilisco
LJ - Andrew Howe
TJ - Fabrizio Donato
TJ - Daniele Greco
TJ - Fabrizio Schembri
DT - Giovanni Faloci
HT - Nicola Vizzoni
20Km Race Walk - Ivano Brugnetti
20Km Race Walk - Jean Jacques Nkouloukidi
20Km Race Walk - Giorgio Rubino
50Km Race Walk - Diego Cafagna
50Km Race Walk - Marco De Luca
50Km Race Walk - Alex Schwazer
4x100 - Maurizio Checcucci, Jean Jacques Riparelli
Marathon - Ruggero Pertile

Women (16):
400m - Libania Grenot
800m - Daniela Reina
800m/1500m - Elisa Cusma
5000m - Silvia Weissteiner
3000m st - Elena Romagnolo
HJ - Antonietta Di Martino
PV - Anna Giordano Bruno
TJ - Magdelin Martinez
SP - Chiara Rosa
HT - Clarissa Claretti
HT - Silvia Salis
20Km Race Walk - Elisa Rigaudo
20Km Race Walk - Valentina Trapletti
4x400m - Marta Milani