Mattia Debertolis

Mattia Debertolis was an Italian orienteering athlete, born in Feltre on 4 August 1996. He was a member of the clubs IFK Lidingö SOK and Park World Tour Italia, and he competed at the 2018 European Orienteering Championships, at the 2023 World Orienteering Championships and in the Orienteering World Cup. Away from the forest he held a civil engineering degree from the University of Trento and was a doctoral student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He died on 12 August 2025 at a hospital in Chengdu, China, at the age of 29, after being found unconscious on 8 August during the men's middle distance competition at the World Games, and the International World Games Association and the International Orienteering Federation issued a joint statement announcing his death.