Federica Del Buono

Federica Del Buono
	Del Buono at Roma 2024.
Personal information
National team	Italy (4 caps)
Born	12 December 1994 (age 29); Vicenza, Veneto, Italy
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
Country	Italy
Sport	Athletics
Event	Middle-distance running
Club	C.S. Carabinieri
Coached by	Rossella Gramola
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

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

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

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 , 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

Outdoor

800 metres – 2:00.58 (2014)
1500 metres – 4:03.45 (2022)
3000 metres – 9:01.38 (2014)

Indoor

1500 metres – 4:08.87 (2015)
3000 metres – 9:01.19 (2015)
All information from IAAF.

Achievements

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

National titles

Italian Athletics Championships
- 1500 metres: 2014, 2024

References

^ "Federica Del Buono - Profile" (in Italian). fidal.it. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
^ "Atletica, storie di famiglia" (in Italian). fidal.it. 24 June 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
^ Federica Del Buono Honours. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-09.
^ 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.
^ "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.
^ Del Buono impresa d'oro ad Aubagne (in Italian). FIDAL (2014-06-15). Retrieved on 2015-03-09.
^ 2014 European Team Championships Results Archived February 2, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. European Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-03-09.
^ 2014 European Championships Women's 1500 metres final Archived 2017-03-17 at the Wayback Machine. European Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-03-09.
^ Federica Del Buono. FIDAL. Retrieved on 2015-03-09.
^ 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.

External links

Federica Del Buono at World Athletics
Federica Del Buono at Diamond League
Federica Del Buono at the Italian Athletics Federation (in Italian)
Federica Del Buono at Olympics.com
Federica Del Buono at Olympedia

[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.

[FIDAL-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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