Matteo Togni
Matteo Togni is an Italian hurdler. He won the gold medal at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in the 110 metres hurdles. He set Italian under-20 records in the 110m hurdles in 2025, and the 60 metres hurdles in 2024.
Career
Togni is from Treviolo, Lombardy, and initially placed football as a winger for US Roncola, prior to focusing on athletics during the Covid-19 pandemic, describing himself as a footballer as "fast, not so good with my feet". He tried many disciplines, such as long jump, before being identified as a potential hurdler by athletics coach Mattia Folli.Competing as a member of Bergamo Stars Atletica in 2024, Togni twice set an Italian under-20 record in the 60 metres hurdles, improving on the previous record of Lorenzo Simonelli, by running 7.79, and then 7.76 seconds. That summer, he also broke Simonelli's under-20 record in the 110 metres hurdles, running 13.73 seconds in Geneva, Switzerland, over 106cm barriers. That year, he joined Fiamme Oro, and won the Italian under-20 championships over 99cm barriers, running 13.46 seconds in Rieti. He subsequently competed at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru, the following month, where he was a semi-finalist as an 18 year-old.
Despite a lower lumbar injury to his back which derailed his 2025 indoor season, Togni won the gold medal in the 110 metres hurdles at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland, setting an Italian under-20 record of 13.27 seconds.