Gabriella Dorio

Gabriella Dorio
	Gabriella Dorio
Personal information
Nationality	Italian
Born	27 June 1957 (age 67); Veggiano, Italy
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in)
Weight	55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
Country	Italy
Sport	Athletics
Event	Middle distance running
Club	Iveco Torino
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	800 m: 1:57.66 (1980); 1500 m: 3:58.65 (1982);
Medal record
Olympic Games
European Championships
European Indoor Championships
World Cross Country Championships

Gabriella Dorio (born 27 June 1957 in Veggiano, Veneto) is an Italian former athlete and Olympic gold winner. She won two medals, at senior level, at the International athletics competitions.^[1]

Biography

She first participated in the 1976 Summer Olympics, placing sixth in the 1500 metres race then ran the same event and placed fifth in Summer Olympics 4 years later. She won the gold medal at the 1982 European Indoor Championships, the bronze medal at the 1982 European Championships, and finally the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, beating the Romanians Doina Melinte (silver) and Maricica Puică (bronze).

She has 65 caps in national team from 1973 to 1991.^[2]

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event
1973	European Junior Championships		8th	800 m
1974	European Championships	Rome, Italy	9th	1,500 m
1975	European Junior Championships		3rd	1,500 m
1976	Olympic Games	Montreal, Canada	6th	1,500 m
1978	European Championships	Prague, Czechoslovakia	6th	1,500 m
1979	Mediterranean Games	Split, Yugoslavia	1st	800 m
1980	Olympic Games	Moscow, Soviet Union	8th	800 m
1980	Olympic Games	Moscow, Soviet Union	4th	1,500 m
1982	European Indoor Championships	Milan, Italy	1st	1,500 m
1982	European Championships	Athens, Greece	3rd	1,500 m
1983	European Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	4th	1,500 m
1983	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	7th	1,500 m
1984	European Indoor Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	8th	1,500 m
	Olympic Games	Los Angeles California, United States	4th	800 m
	Olympic Games	Los Angeles California, United States	1st	1,500 m

Gabriella Dorio has won 23 times the individual national championship.^[3]^[4]

7 wins in the 800 metres (1974, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983)
10 wins in the 1500 metres (1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984)
2 wins in the 800 metres indoor (1978, 1979)
2 wins in the 1500 metres indoor (1981, 1983)
2 wins in the cross country running (1976, 1983)

^ "PODIO INTERNAZIONALE DAL 1908 AL 2008 - DONNE" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
^ Annuario dell'Atletica 2009. FIDAL. 2009.
^ "ITALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
^ "ITALIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 2 December 2012.