Luca Sito

Personal information
Nationality	Italian
Born	(2003-05-12) 12 May 2003 (age 23) Milan, Italy
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Sprint
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	200 m: 20.72 (2024) 400 m: 44.75 NR (2024)
Medal record Men's athletics Representing  Italy European Championships 2024 Rome 4×400 m relay 2024 Rome 4x400 m mixed European U23 Championships 2023 Espoo 4x400 m relay

Luca Sito (born 12 May 2003) is an Italian sprinter.^[1] He won silver medals as part of the Italian mixed 4 × 400 m relay team and in the men's 4 × 400 m relay at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome.

Early life

He was born and raised in San Felice in Segrate in the Metropolitan City of Milan, although he has family from Naples. He was a keen football player, and would play on the wing, before focusing on athletics in 2020. He later moved to San Donato Milanese, where he came under the coaching of Antonio Cecconi.^[2][3]

Career

He was a gold medalist in the 4 × 400 m at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo alongside Lorenzo Benati, Francesco Domenico Rossi, and Riccardo Meli. Despite being the youngest member of the team, he also came close to the individual final, missing out a place by just 4 hundredths of a second.^[3][4]

In April 2024, he lowered his personal best for the 400 metres to 45.65 in Florence.^[5] He ran as part of the Italian 4 × 400 m relay team at the World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas in May 2024.^[6] That month, he ran a 45.35 personal best for the 400 metres in Montreuil.^[7]

Competing at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, he was a silver medalist in the Mixed 4 × 400 m relay.^[8] He also reached the final of the Men's 400 metres with a time of 44.75 seconds. In the final he placed fifth overall.^[9][10]

He ran a personal best 20.72 seconds for the 200 metres in finishing third at the 2024 Italian Athletics Championships.^[11] He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics over 400 metres in August 2024, reaching the semi-final.^[12] He also competed in the men's 4 × 400 m relay and mixed 4 × 400 m relay at the Games.^[13][14]

In January 2025 in Ancona, he ran an indoor lifetime best of 46.44 to move into the Italian indoor all-time top-10.^[15] He was selected for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, but did not reach the semi-finals of the 400 metres.^[16][17]

He was selected for the Italian team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, running in the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay.^[18][19] He also ran in the heats of the men's 400 metres without advancing to the semi-finals.^[20]

See also

• Italian records in athletics
• Italian all-time lists - 400 metres

References

External links

• Luca Sito at World Athletics
• Luca Sito at the Italian Athletics Federation (in Italian)
• Luca Sito at Olympics.com
• Luca Sito at the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)
• Luca Sito at Olympedia
• Luca Sito at InterSportStats
• Luca Sito at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
• Luca Sito – CONI – Paris 2024 (in Italian)