Bettina Sabatini

Bettina Sabatini is a retired marathon runner who represented Italy. She was born on 21 March 1966 in Aalborg, Denmark, and competed for her adopted country at the highest level. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona she ran the women's marathon and finished twenty-third. She set her personal best for the marathon, 2:30:29, in 1991, and she won six caps for the Italian national team between 1988 and 1994. Her career therefore spans a full Olympic cycle of international road racing, with the Barcelona marathon as its best-known appearance. Her Danish birthplace makes her one of the Italian Olympians born outside Italy.