Nadia Battocletti (born 12 April 2000) is an Italian middle- and long-distance runner. She won the gold medal in the 5000 and 10,000 m races at the 2024 European Championships in Rome. At the 2024 Summer Olympics she won a silver medal in the 10,000 m and placed fourth in the 5000 m race. At the 2025 World Championships she won the silver medal in the 10,000 m and gold medal at the 2026 World Indoor Championships in 3000 m.
Biography Battocletti was born on 12 April 2000 in Cles, Trentino, to an Italian father and a Moroccan-born mother. she lives in her native Trentino region of northern Italy, where she was a student of architecture engineering at the University of Trento. She is coached by her father Giuliano, a former national champion long-distance runner. Battocletti is Muslim and has spoken about the challenges of adjusting her training schedule for Ramadan.
Career She won the gold medal for the 5000 metres at the 2021 European Under-23 Championships. Battocletti earned four individual gold medals in the U20 and U23 age groups at the European Cross Country Championships. She is the Italian record holder for the indoor 3000 metres and 5 km road race.
As a 17-year-old, Battocletti won the bronze medal in the 3000 m at the 2017 European U20 Championships. At the 2019 edition of this championships, she earned silver for the 5000 m. She represented Italy at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics competing in the 5000 m. She won an Italian national title at senior level in 2018, becoming the first Italian millennial to do that. Battocletti is a seven-time national senior champion and, as of 2023, has amassed 31 Italian titles across all surfaces and age-groups.
In August 2019 in Gothenburg, Sweden, she broke Italian under-20 record in the 3000 metres that had lasted for more than 30 years in a time of 9:04.46. In December that year, Battocletti was elected European Athlete of the Month by the European Athletic Association (EAA), the only Italian to succeed in this undertaking in 2019.
At the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021, the 21-year-old competed in the women's 5000 metres event, finishing seventh in the final in a personal best of 14:46.29.
2022–present On 14 February 2022, Battocletti set her first senior Italian record at a meeting in Val-de-Reuil, France, breaking almost 15-year-old 3000 m indoor record of 8:44.81 established by Silvia Weissteiner; she clocked a 8:41.72 performance to finish second. On 23 April that year, she broke the national best in the two miles in Milan. Just seven days later, Battocletti set an Italian record in the 5 km road race at the adizero Road to Records event in Herzogenaurach, Germany, improving her personal best by 42 seconds for sixth place. She broke Maura Viceconte's record dating back to 2000 by 32 seconds.
The 22-year-old missed the World Championships held in Eugene, Oregon, U.S. in July with shin splints injury. In August, she was hit by glandular fever at the European Championships Munich 2022, where she finished seventh in the 5000 m.
At the pre-championships press conference of the European Cross Country Championships on home soil in Turin in December, Battocletti revealed that she had been on antibiotics until ten days back. Despite this, she won decisively on a hilly and demanding 5.722 km course her fourth consecutive European Cross Country gold medal, successfully defending her U23 title. She became only the second runner in history to claim back-to-back U23 titles.
At the Paris 2024 Olympics, Battocletti finished in fourth place in the women's 5000 metres, setting a national record for Italy with a time of 14:31.64. Initially upgraded to bronze following Faith Kipyegon's disqualification for obstruction, she was displaced from the podium after Kipyegon was reinstated following Kenya's successful appeal. She proceeded to win the silver medal in the women's 10,000 metres, setting a national record for Italy with a time of 30:43.35.
In 2025, Battocletti lowered her own Italian national record in the 10,000 m at the World Championships in Tokyo. She finished second overall in 30:38.23 and received the silver medal, her first World Championships medal.
In 2026, despite being an outdoor specialist and training while observing Ramadan, Battocletti won gold in the 3000 m at the World Indoor Championships.
On 11 August 2026, Battocletti won the gold medal in the 5000 metres at the European Championships in Birmingham, England. Three days later, she won the 10,000 metres gold medal.
Statistics Personal bests She holds eight national records at the senior level.
Outdoor 1500 metres: 3:58.15 (Rovereto, Italy, 2 June 2025) 3000 metres: 8:26.27 (Rabat, Morocco, 25 May 2025) 5000 metres: 14:23.15 (Rome, Italy, 6 June 2025) 10,000 metres: 30:38.23 (Tokyo, Japan, 13 September 2025) 2 miles: 30:08 (Milan, Italy, 23 April 2022)
Indoor 1500 metres: 4:03.59 (Madrid, Spain, 6 February 2026) 3000 metres: 8:26.44 (Liévin, France, 19 February 2026)
Road 5 km: 14:32 (Tokyo, Japan, 3 May 2025) 10 km: 30:08 (Lille, France, 4 April 2026)
Achievements 2016European U18 ChampionshipsTbilisi, Georgia6th3000 m9:49.532017World Cross Country ChampionshipsKampala, Uganda34thU20 race21:27European U20 ChampionshipsGrosseto, Italy3rd3000 m9:24.01 European Cross Country ChampionshipsŠamorín, Slovakia5thXC 4.18 km U2014:072ndU20 team33 pts2018World U20 ChampionshipsTampere, Finland8th3000 m9:13.45 European Cross Country ChampionshipsTilburg, Netherlands1stXC 4.3 km U2013:465thU20 team41 pts2019World Cross Country ChampionshipsAarhus, Denmark23rdU20 race22:24European U20 ChampionshipsBorås, Sweden2nd5000 m16:09.39 European Cross Country ChampionshipsLisbon, Portugal1stXC 4.3 km U2013:582ndU20 team29 pts2021European Team Championships Super LeagueChorzów, Poland1st5000 m15:46.95European U23 ChampionshipsTallinn, Estonia1st5000 m15:37.4Olympic GamesTokyo, Japan7th5000 m14:46:29 European Cross Country ChampionshipsDublin, Ireland1stXC 6.0 km U2320:321stU23 team18 pts2022European ChampionshipsMunich, Germany7th5000 m15:10.90 European Cross Country ChampionshipsTurin, Italy1stXC 5.722 km U2319:552ndU23 team31 pts2023European Indoor ChampionshipsIstanbul, Turkey4th3000 m8:44.96 World ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary16th5000 m15:27.862024European ChampionshipsRome, Italy1st5000 m14:35.29 , 1st10,000 m30:51.32 Olympic GamesParis, France4th5000 m14:31.64 2nd10000 m30:43.35 2025European Running ChampionshipsLeuven, Belgium1st10 km31:10World ChampionshipsTokyo, Japan3rd5000 m14:55.422nd10000 m30:38.232026World Indoor ChampionshipsToruń, Poland1st3000 m8:57.64European ChampionshipsBirmingham, United Kingdom1st5000 m15:37.841st10000 m31:41.17
National titles Battocletti has won 17 national championships at individual senior level. Italian Athletics Championships 1500 metres: 2021, 2025, 2026 (3) 5000 metres: 2018, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 (6) 10,000 metres: 2023 (1) Italian 10 km road Championship 10 km road: 2023 (1) Italian Cross Country Championships Long course: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 (6)
See also European Athlete of the Month Italian records in athletics Italian all-time lists – 5000 metres Italian all-time lists – 10,000 metres
References
External links
Nadia Battocletti at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics (archived, alternate link) Nadia Battocletti – CONI – Paris 2024