Matteo Togni
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| Born | 14 February 2006 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Hurdles | ||||||||||||||
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Matteo Togni (born 14 February 2006) is an Italian hurdler. He won the gold medal at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in the 110 metres hurdles. He set Italian under-20 records in the 110m hurdles in 2025, and the 60 metres hurdles in 2024.[1]
Career
Togni is from Treviolo, Lombardy, and initially placed football as a winger for US Roncola, prior to focusing on athletics during the Covid-19 pandemic, describing himself as a footballer as "fast, not so good with my feet". He tried many disciplines, such as long jump, before being identified as a potential hurdler by athletics coach Mattia Folli.[2][3]
Competing as a member of Bergamo Stars Atletica in 2024, Togni twice set an Italian under-20 record in the 60 metres hurdles, improving on the previous record of Lorenzo Simonelli, by running 7.79, and then 7.76 seconds. That summer, he also broke Simonelli's under-20 record in the 110 metres hurdles, running 13.73 seconds in Geneva, Switzerland, over 106cm barriers. [4][5] That year, he joined Fiamme Oro, and won the Italian under-20 championships over 99cm barriers, running 13.46 seconds (+0.8 m/s) in Rieti. He subsequently competed at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru, the following month, where he was a semi-finalist as an 18 year-old.[6][7][8]
Despite a lower lumbar injury to his back which derailed his 2025 indoor season,[3] Togni won the gold medal in the 110 metres hurdles at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland, setting an Italian under-20 record of 13.27 seconds (+0.4m/s).[9][10]
References
- ^ "Matteo Togni". World Athletics. Retrieved 21 Jan 2026.
- ^ "Matteo Togni's "hurdles" dream: he qualified for the Under 20 World Athletics Championships". Bergamo News. June 26, 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2026.
- ^ a b Tiseo, Giandomenico (October 15, 2025). "Matteo Togni: "I have a lower back problem that I'm working on. I started playing football; I'd like to go to the European Championships in 2026."". oasport. Retrieved 21 January 2026.
- ^ Sorrentino, Federica (June 23, 2024). "MATTEO TOGNI SETS U20 110M HURDLES RECORD IN GENEVA". zonamistamagazine.com. Retrieved 21 Jan 2026.
- ^ "Matteo Togni scored the best Italian Under-20 performance in the 60m hurdles". atleticanotizie. 20 January 2024. Retrieved 21 Jan 2026.
- ^ Scordo, Joseph (12 Nov 2024). "Matteo Togni and a year of progress experienced alongside the absolute champions". Atletica Magazine. Retrieved 21 January 2026.
- ^ "World Athletics U20 Championships". World Athletics. 29 August 2024. Retrieved 21 Jan 2026.
- ^ "Italian U20 Championships". World Athletics. 26 July 2024. Retrieved 21 Jan 2026.
- ^ Broadbent, Chris (10 August 2025). "Togni and Sanchez take sprint hurdles titles for Italy and Switzerland". European Athletics. Retrieved 21 Jan 2026.
- ^ "Europei U20, sesta medaglia d'oro per l'Italia: Matteo Togni vince i 110 ostacoli". Rai. 10 August 2025. Retrieved 21 Jan 2026.