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Ndiaga Dieng

Dieng awarded by the Italian President Sergio Mattarella at Quirinale Palace in 2021.
Personal information
Nationality	Senegalese and Italian
Born	(1999-07-17) 17 July 1999 (age 25)
Sport
Sport	Paralympic athletics
Disability class	T20
Event(s)	400 metres 1500 metres
Club	Anthropos Civitanova Marche
Coached by	Maurizio Iesari
Medal record Men's para-athletics Representing  Italy Paralympic Games 2020 Tokyo 1500 m T20 European Championships 2021 Bydgoszcz 1500 m T20

Ndiaga Dieng (born 17 July 1999) is a Senegalese and Italian para-athlete of Senegalese descent who represented Italy at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

Career

Of Senegalese and later acquired Italian citizenship, Dieng represented Italy at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in the 1500 metres T20 event and won a bronze medal. He competed at the 2020 Italian U23 Palaindoor Ancona, and 2021 Palaindoor Ancona, in 800 metres and 1500 metres.

See also

• Italy at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

References

1. "Ndiaga Dieng". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
2. "Ndiaga Dieng". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 3 September 2021. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
3. "Ndiaga DIENG | Profile | World Athletics". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 3 September 2021.

External links

• Ndiaga Dieng at World Athletics
• Ndiaga Dieng at the Italian Athletics Federation (in Italian)
• Ndiaga Dieng at Paralympic.org
• Ndiaga Dieng at the Italian Paralympic Committee (in Italian)

• Living people
• 1999 births
• Medalists at the World Para Athletics European Championships
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
• Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
• Paralympic bronze medalists for Italy
• Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
• Italian male middle-distance runners
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
• 21st-century Italian sportsmen