Francesco Fortunato


Francesco Fortunato is an Italian racewalker.
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Career

He won a bronze medal at the 2024 European Athletics Championships, sixteen national championships and has participated at three editions of the World Athletics Championships. He also competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the Athletics at the [2020 Summer Olympics – Men's 20 kilometres walk|20 km walk].
In 2025 he improved on the 5000 metres race walk world record, with a time of 17:55.65, but his performance was not ratified as a world record due to the competition not meeting the level of judges required by World Athletics.

National titles

He won 16 national championships at senior level.