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Federica Del Buono

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Federica Del Buono
Del Buono at Roma 2024.
Personal information
National teamItaly (4 caps)
Born (1994-12-12) 12 December 1994 (age 29)
Vicenza, Veneto, Italy
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
Country Italy
SportAthletics
EventMiddle-distance running
ClubC.S. Carabinieri
Coached byRossella Gramola[1]
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • 800 m: 2:00.58 (2014)
  • 800 m indoor: 2:05.64 (2015)
  • 1500 m: 4:03.45 (2022)
  • 1500 m indoor: 4:08.87 (2015)
  • 3000 m: 9:01.38 (2014)
  • 3000 m indoor: 9:01.19 (2015)
Medal record
European Indoor Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Prague 1500 m
Mediterranean Games
Silver medal – second place 2022 Oran 1500 m
Del Buono (right) on the medal podium at the 2015 European Indoor Championships

Federica Del Buono (born 12 December 1994) is an Italian middle-distance runner who competes mainly in track events. She was the bronze medallist in the 1500 metres at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in 2015.

Her parents Gianni Del Buono and Rossella Gramola were also two middle-distance runners.[2]

Biography

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Born in Vicenza, Del Buono began training with her mother as coach and became a member of the Gruppo Sportivo Forestale sports club. Early in her life, she was more interested in dance, but began taking part in athletics in seriousness around 2011. She soon rose to prominence nationally and competed in the heats of the 1500 metres at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics.[3] Del Buono also ran over 4 km at the 2012 European Cross Country Championships, finishing 40th overall.[4]

Career

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She has a personal best of 4:03.45 minutes for the event. She won the 2014 Italian national title and represented Italy at the 2014 European Athletics Championships. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in the 1500 m.[5]

She won her first international medal at the inaugural 1500 m at the 2014 Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships, beating Olympic medallist Gamze Bulut to the gold medal.[6] A fourth place in senior competition followed at the 2014 European Team Championships Super League.[7] She went on to be selected for the 1500 m at the 2014 European Athletics Championships, where she placed fifth in a personal best of 4:07.49 minutes.[8] She won her first national title in the 1500 m at that year's Italian Athletics Championships.[9]

The twenty-year-old Del Buono won her first senior medal at the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships. Competing over her specialty 1500 m, she took a clear third place for the bronze medal with a run of 4:11.61 minutes.[10]

Personal bests

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Outdoor
Indoor

Achievements

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Year Competition Venue Rank Event Time Notes
2012 World Junior Championships Spain Barcelona 27th (h) 1500 m 4:28.66
2014 Mediterranean U23 Championships France Aubagne 1st 1500 m 4:14.20
European Team Championships Germany Braunschweig 4th 1500 m 4:16.01
European Championships Switzerland Zürich 5th 1500 m 4:07.49 PB
2015 European Indoor Championships Czech Republic Prague 3rd 1500 m 4:11.61
2021 European Indoor Championships Poland Toruń 12th (h) 1500 m 4:12.79 SB
Olympic Games Japan Tokyo 29th (h) 1500 m 4:07.70 SB
2022 Mediterranean Games Algeria Oran 2nd 1500 m 4:13.09
World Championships United States Eugene 28th (h) 1500 m 4:08.42
European Championships Germany Munich 23rd (h) 1500 m 4:08.14
2023 European Indoor Championships Turkey Istanbul 19th (h) 1500 m 4:23.59
2024 European Championships Italy Rome 7th 5000 m 15:00.25 PB
4th 10,000 m 31:25.41 PB

National titles

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Federica Del Buono - Profile" (in Italian). fidal.it. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Atletica, storie di famiglia" (in Italian). fidal.it. 24 June 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  3. ^ Federica Del Buono Honours. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-09.
  4. ^ 19th SPAR European Cross Country Championships Budapest HUN 9 December Cross country Archived 2014-01-03 at the Wayback Machine. European Athletics (2012). Retrieved on 2015-03-09.
  5. ^ "Athletics del BUONO Federica". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 14 October 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  6. ^ Del Buono impresa d'oro ad Aubagne (in Italian). FIDAL (2014-06-15). Retrieved on 2015-03-09.
  7. ^ 2014 European Team Championships Results Archived February 2, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. European Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-03-09.
  8. ^ 2014 European Championships Women's 1500 metres final Archived 2017-03-17 at the Wayback Machine. European Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-03-09.
  9. ^ Federica Del Buono. FIDAL. Retrieved on 2015-03-09.
  10. ^ Atletica, Euroindoor: Chesani un altro argento nell'alto. Del Buono di bronzo nei 1500 (in Italian). La Gazetta Della Sport (2015-03-08). Retrieved on 2015-03-09.
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