Nadia Battocletti

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At the 2026 World Indoor Championships, held in Toruń, Poland, Battocletti won world title in 3000 m.

At the 2022 European Cross Country Championships, held in Turin, Italy, Battocletti took her fourth consecutive continental age-group cross country victory.

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. 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, who also was, in the past, an important long-distance runner.

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. 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)