Antonella Bizioli

Antonella Bizioli is a retired Italian long-distance runner who specialised in the marathon. She was born on 29 March 1957 in Villa d'Ogna, in the province of Bergamo. Bizioli ran the marathon at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics in Rome and at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, her only Olympic appearance. With the Italian national team she won two medals at the World Marathon Cup, the team event that scored the finishers of each nation together. Her career is a typical example of the strong Italian women's marathon tradition of the late 1980s and 1990s, built on national team runs and major city marathons rather than individual global medals, and she is recorded in the international athletics databases as a marathon specialist.