Michele Didoni

{{Infobox sportsperson

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| caption = Miche Didoni (right) with his teammate Giovanni De Benedictis in 1995

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|3|7|df=y}}

| birth_place = Milan

| height = {{height|m=1.76}}

| weight = {{cvt|73|kg}}

| country = {{flagicon|ITA}} Italy

| club = C.S. Carabinieri

| nationality = Italian

| sport = Athletics

| event = Race walking

| pb = *20 km: 1:19:59 (1995)

50 km: 3:51:53 (1998)

| medaltemplates = {{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

}}

Michele Didoni (born 7 March 1974 in Milan) is an Italian retired race walker, world champion of the 20 km race walk at Gothenburg 1995.

Biography

He won six times the national championships at senior level.{{cite web|url=http://www.sportolimpico.it/attachments/article/224/CAMPIONI%20ITALIANI-NOMI-U.pdf|title=CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" – UOMINI TUTTI I CAMPIONI – 1906-2016|publisher=sportolimpico.it |access-date=16 August 2017}} and after his retire, he was the coach of Italian Olympic champion Alex Schwazer.{{cite news|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/olympics-dope-alex-schwazer-idINDEE8750J620120806|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170817121253/http://uk.reuters.com/article/olympics-dope-alex-schwazer-idINDEE8750J620120806|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 17, 2017|title=Walk champion Schwazer excluded for doping|date=6 August 2012|quote="I trusted him, he took me for a ride. Just to think, a few months ago I put my daughter Micol in his arms for her baptism," Schwazer's coach Michele Didoni, himself a former race walking world champion, told Italian news agency AGI.|agency=uk.reuters.com| access-date=29 August 2015}}

Achievements

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colspan="6"\|Representing {{ITA}}
1992 \|World Junior Championships \|Seoul, South Korea \|6th \|10,000 m \|41:42.75
1994 \|European Championships \|Helsinki, Finland \|10th \|20 km \|1:23:21
rowspan=2\|1995 \|World Race Walking Cup \|Beijing, PR China \|5th \|20 km \|1:20:50
World Championships \|Gothenburg, Sweden \|bgcolor="gold" \| 1st \|20 km \|1:19:59
1996 \|Olympic Games \|Atlanta, United States \|align="center" \| 34th \|20 km \|1:26:02
rowspan=2\|1997 \|World Championships \|Athens, Greece \|align="center" \| 7th \|20 km \|1:23:14
Mediterranean Games \|Bari, Italy \|bgcolor="silver" align="center" \| 2nd \|20 km \|1:25:21
1998 \|European Championships \|Budapest, Hungary \|align="center" \| 11th \|20 km \|1:25.54
1999 \|World Championships \|Seville, Spain \|10th \|20 km \|1:26:00
rowspan=2\|2000 \|European Race Walking Cup \|Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany \|14th \|20 km \|1:21:51
Olympic Games \|Sydney, Australia \|11th \|20 km \|1:21:43
2002 \|European Championships \|Munich, Germany \|— \|20 km \|DSQ
2003 \|World Championships \|Paris, France \|16th \|20 km \|1:21:23
2005 \|Mediterranean Games \|Almería, Spain \|bgcolor="cc9966"\| 3rd \|20 km \|1:26:06

colspan="6"|Representing {{ITA}}

1992

|World Junior Championships

|Seoul, South Korea

|6th

|10,000 m

|41:42.75

1994

|European Championships

|Helsinki, Finland

|10th

|20 km