Gennaro Di Napoli (born 5 March 1968) is an Italian former middle distance runner. He won 13 medals at the International athletics competitions, 10 of these at senior level.

Biography

Di Napoli was born in

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but moved early in his life to

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, in northern

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. He excelled in the distances from 800 to 3,000 meters. He won the silver medal at the

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in Split 1990 over

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1500-metre run is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletics since 1983. It is equivalent to 1.5 kilomet ...

. He missed out on a medal at the World Championships 1991. In 1992 Di Napoli scored a sensational victory over the world champion Noureddine Morceli from Algeria at the Golden Gala meeting in Rome. However, he got injured two weeks before the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992, where he participated, but failed to reach the final. In 1993 di Napoli won the 3,000 m Indoor World Championships' gold medal; a title which he defended at the 1995 Indoor Championships. However, his achievements in outdoor races remained mixed.

Achievements

National titles

Di Napoli has won the individual

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eight times. *3 wins in the

(1990, 1991, 1992) *1 win in the

5000 metres The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run is a common long-distance running event in track and field, approximately equivalent to or . It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics, run over laps of a sta ...

(2000) *1 win in the

cross country running Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and soil, earth, pass through woodlands and ope ...

(1996) *3 wins in the

3000 metres The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track. It is debated whether the 3000 m sho ...

indoor (1997, 1999, 2000)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Di Napoli, Gennaro 1968 births Living people Italian male cross country runners Italian male middle-distance runners Italian male long-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Italy Athletes from Naples Athletics competitors of Fiamme Oro European Athletics Championships medalists European athletics champions for Italy Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy Athletes (track and field) at the 1991 Mediterranean Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Italy Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics World Athletics Indoor Championships winners Italian Athletics Championships winners 20th-century Italian sportsmen

Biography

Achievements

National titles

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