Emanuele Di Gregorio (born December 13, 1980 in Castellammare del Golfo

Castellammare del Golfo

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, Sicily

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) is a track and field

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

 sprint athlete

Sprint (race)

Sprints are short running events in athletics and track and field. Races over short distances are among the oldest running competitions. The first 13 editions of the Ancient Olympic Games featured only one event—the stadion race, which was a race from one end of the stadium to the other...

 who competes internationally for Italy

Italy

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.

Di Gregorio represented Italy at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Italy at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Italy competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, held in Beijing, China.The country sent a delegation of 344 athletes to compete.-Medalists:- Archery:...

 in Beijing

Beijing

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. He competed at the 4x100 metres relay together with Fabio Cerutti

Fabio Cerutti

Fabio Cerutti is an Italian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.- Biography :He finished sixth in 60 metres at the 2007 European Indoor Championships. He also competed at the 2008 World Indoor Championships and the 2008 Olympic Games without reaching the final round. In Beijing he finished...

, Simone Collio

Simone Collio

Simone Collio is an Italian sprinter who specializes in the 60 and 100 metres. His personal best times are 6.55 seconds in the 60 metres and 10.06 seconds in the 100 metres, the second all time best performance in the Italian ranking of 100 meters, after the 10"01 in altitude of Pietro...

 and Jacques Riparelli

Jacques Riparelli

Jacques Riparelli is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Italy.His father is Italian, mother is Cameroonian. Jacques Riparelli moved along with his family to Italy at the age of four....

. In their qualification heat they were disqualified and eliminated. He achieved a new personal best at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Turin with a 6.56-second run for the 60 metres

60 metres

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 dash. A photo-finish revealed he came in third just ahead of Great Britain's Simeon Williamson

Simeon Williamson

Simeon Oscar Williamson is an English sprinter of Jamaican descent who specializes in the 100 metres. Williamson, a London native, is the second cousin of British high jumper Germaine Mason. His athletics club is Highgate Harriers...

 (6.57). He succeed at regional level with a silver medal

Silver medal

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 in the 100 m at the 2009 Mediterranean Games

Athletics at the 2009 Mediterranean Games

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, before adding the relay gold to his honours. He ran at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics

2009 World Championships in Athletics

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, reaching the 100 m quarter-finals and he also helped the men's 4 x 100 metres relay

4 x 100 metres relay

The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners begin in the same stagger as for the individual 400 m race...

 team to sixth in the final.

He ran a personal best in the 100 m at the 2010 European Athletics Championships, finishing in 10.17 seconds into a headwind to earn himself a place in the event final. He finished seventh in his first major outdoor final. He scored his first Italian record

Italian records in athletics

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in the 100 m relay event with the men's team, who took the silver behind France in a record time of 38.17 seconds.