{{Short description|Italian athlete (born 1996)}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Stefano Chiesa | birth_name = | image = | caption = | nationality = Italian | sport = Track and Field | event = Race walking | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1996|5|25|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = }} '''Stefano Chiesa''' (born 25 May 1996) is an Italian athlete who specialises in race walking.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/italy/stefano-chiesa-14546341|title=Stefano CHIESA | Profile|website=worldathletics.org}}</ref>
From Verbania, he had achieved the Olympic qualifying standard for the 50 km race walk in October 2019 in the Tilburg 50 km, with a time of 3:48:25. In November 2019 however, he injured a metatarsal in a national training camp in Tuscany.<ref>{{Cite web |last=TOMOLA |first=ARIANNA |date=2020-04-03 |title=Il marciatore di Verbania Stefano Chiesa: "A Tokyo più forte dopo l'infortunio, il rinvio dei Giochi mi può aiutare" |url=https://www.lastampa.it/topnews/edizioni-locali/verbano-cusio-ossola/2020/04/03/news/il-marciatore-di-verbania-stefano-chiesa-a-tokyo-piu-forte-dopo-l-infortunio-il-rinvio-dei-giochi-mi-puo-aiutare-1.38670748/amp/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210611075044/https://www.lastampa.it/topnews/edizioni-locali/verbano-cusio-ossola/2020/04/03/news/il-marciatore-di-verbania-stefano-chiesa-a-tokyo-piu-forte-dopo-l-infortunio-il-rinvio-dei-giochi-mi-puo-aiutare-1.38670748/amp/ |archive-date=2021-06-11 |website=www.lastampa.it}}</ref> The time he recorded was described as remarkable as it was 23 minutes faster than his previous best time of 4:11:07.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.atleticalive.it/tilburg-stefano-chiesa-migliora-23-minuti-sui-50km-e-minimo-per-tokyo/|title=Tilburg: Stefano Chiesa migliora 23 minuti sui 50km: è minimo per Tokyo!|date=October 7, 2019}}</ref> Chiesa was named in the Italian squad for the World Race Walking Championships in 2022 held in Muscat.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-02-03 |title=Italy names a squad of 22 athletes to compete in World Race Walking Team Championships in Muscat |url=https://athleticshour.com/italy-names-a-squad-of-22-athletes-to-compete-in-world-race-walking-team-championships-in-muscat/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220722160355/https://athleticshour.com/italy-names-a-squad-of-22-athletes-to-compete-in-world-race-walking-team-championships-in-muscat/ |archive-date=2022-07-22 |website=athleticshour.com}}</ref>
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