Alvise de Vidi

Alvise De Vidi

Alvise De Vidi receives award from the former Italian President, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
Personal information
Nationality	Italian
Born	(1966-04-30) April 30, 1966 (age 50) San Biagio di Callalta, Italy
Sport
Country	Italy
Sport	Paralympic athletics Paralympic swimming
Club	ASPEA Padova
Medal record Paralympic Games Swimming 1988 Seoul 25 metres butterfly - 1A Athletics 1996 Atlanta 400 metres - T50 1996 Atlanta 800 metres - T50 2000 Sydney 800 metres - T51 2000 Sydney 1500 metres - T51 2000 Sydney 800 metres - T51 2000 Sydney Marathon - T51 2004 Athens Marathon - T51 1996 Atlanta 1500 metres - T50 2000 Sydney 400 metres - T51 2012 London 100 metres - T51 1992 Barcelona 800 metres - TW1 2000 Sydney 200 metres - T51 2004 Athens 200 metres - T51 2016 Rio 400 metres - T51 IPC Athletics World Championships 2013 Lyon 100m T51 2013 Lyon 200m T51 IPC European Championships 2016 Grosseto 400m - T51

Alvise De Vidi (born in San Biagio di Callalta, 30 April 1966), is a paralympic athlete from Italy competing mainly in category T51 wheelchair racing events.

Alvise has competed in 5 Paralympics across two sports winning 12 medals seven of them gold. His first games were in 1988 Summer Paralympics where he competed in the 25m Butterfly class 1A winning the gold medal, despite winning a gold medal this would prove to be the only time he competed outside of athletics. In the same games he also competed in seven track events ranging from 100m to 1500m including both the relays and it was in the 4 × 100 m that he won a bronze medal. In the 1992 Summer Paralympics he competed in the 100m, 400m, 800m and 1500m winning the bronze in the 800m.

At the 1996 Summer Paralympics proved to be a much more successful year when he won the 400m and 800m gold medals, silver in the 1500m and competed in the marathon. At the 2000 Summer Paralympics he achieved more success with a defence of his 800m gold medal and further gold medals in the 1500m and marathon as well as silver in 400m and bronze in the 200m. 2004 Summer Paralympics were to be his last but he managed to defend his marathon title and win a second consecutive bronze over 200m.