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{{short description|Italian long-distance runner}}
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| caption = Venanzio Ortis with the two medal won at the [[1978 European Athletics Championships|1978 European Championships]]
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| sport = [[Athletics (sport)|Athletics]]
| event = [[Long-distance running]]
| club = [[G.S. Fiamme Oro]]
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| birth_place = [[Paluzza]]
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*5000 m: 13:19.19 (1978)
*10,000 m: 27:31.48 (1978)
| country = {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Italy national athletics team|Italy]]
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{{MedalCompetition|[[European Championships in Athletics|European Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1978 European Championships in Athletics|1978 Prague]]|5000 metres}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1978 European Championships in Athletics|1978 Prague]]|10,000 metres}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Mediterranean Games]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1983 Mediterranean Games|1983 Casablanca]]|10,000 metres}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[IAAF World Cross Country Championships|World Cross Country Jr. Championships]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[1974 IAAF World Cross Country Championships|1974 Monza]]|[[1974 IAAF World Cross Country Championships#Individual 2|Individual]]}}
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'''Venanzio Ortis''' (born 29 January 1955) is an Italian retired long-distance runner who won two medals at the [[1978 European Championships in Athletics|1978 European Championships]].

==Biography==
Ortis was born in [[Paluzza]], [[province of Udine]]. He started racing in 1969 (for a period he also practiced [[cross-country skiing (sport)|cross-country skiing]]), and later won the Italian junior titles in the 1000 and 3000 m races. On 16 August 1978, aged 23, he set a new Italian record in the 5000 m at the [[Weltklasse Zürich]], obtaining a third place behind  [[Henry Rono]] and [[Markus Ryffel]]. In the fast 10,000-metre race of the [[1978 European Athletics Championships]], held in [[Prague]] two weeks later, he broke 28 minutes for the first time while finishing second in 27 minutes 31.48 seconds, just four one-hundredths of a second ahead of  [[Aleksandras Antipovas|Aleksandr Antipov]] of the Soviet Union, and half a second behind Finland's [[Martti Vainio]] (see, for example, Tapio Pekola et al., eds., EM-Praha 1978 (European Championships in Prague 1978), Kaarina, Finland:  Juoksija-lehti (Runner Magazine), 1978).  In the slow and tactical 5,000-metre final, he managed to squeeze through the narrow space between Ryffel and the Soviet Union's [[Aleksandr Fedotkin]] to sprint to the lead and win by 0.1 seconds.  He missed the [[1980 Moscow Olympics]] due to injury. His last major international track race was the [[1981 IAAF World Cup]] event in [[Rome]], where he placed fourth in 10,000. Plagued by physical problems, Ortis retired in 1983.

He is the cousin of the Italian cross-country skier [[Manuela Di Centa]].

==Achievements==
{| class="wikitable" width=65% style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;"
!Year !!Competition !!Venue !!Position !!Event!!Time!!Notes
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|1974
|align=left|[[1974 IAAF World Cross Country Championships|World Junior Cross Country Championships]] 
|align=left|{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Monza]] 
|bgcolor=silver| 2nd
|Junior race
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|-
|rowspan=3|1976
|align=left rowspan=2|[[1976 IAAF World Cross Country Championships|World Cross Country Championships]] 
|align=left rowspan=2|{{flagicon|GBR}} [[Chepstow]] 
|14th
|Individual race
|[[1976 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race#Individual|35:36]]
|
|-
|5th
|Long course team
|[[1976 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race#Teams|224 pts]]
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|-
|align=left|[[1976 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]] 
|align=left|{{flagicon|CAN}} [[Montreal]]
|{{abbr|Heat|eliminated in heat}}
|5000 m
|[[Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 metres|13:52.40]]
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|-
|rowspan=2|1978
|rowspan=2 align=left|[[1978 European Championships in Athletics|European Championships]] 
|rowspan=2 align=left|{{flagicon|TCH}} [[Prague]]
|bgcolor="gold" align="center" | 1st
|5000 m
|[[1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres|13:28.52]]
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|-
|bgcolor="silver" align="center" | 2nd
|10,000 m
|[[1978 European Athletics Championships – Men's 10,000 metres|27:31.48]]
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|-
|1983
|align=left|[[1983 IAAF World Cross Country Championships|World Cross Country Championships]] 
|align=left|{{flagicon|GBR}} [[Gateshead]]
|align="center" | 7th
|Long course team
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|
|}

==National titles==
He won five times the [[Italian Athletics Championships|national championships]] at [[senior (athletics)|senior]] level.

*[[Italian Athletics Championships]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sportolimpico.it/attachments/article/224/CAMPIONI%20ITALIANI-NOMI-U.pdf|title=CAMPIONATI “ASSOLUTI” – UOMINI TUTTI I CAMPIONI – 1906-2016|publisher=sportolimpico.it |access-date=22 August 2017}}</ref>
**[[5000 metres]]: 1977
**[[10,000 metres]]: 1976, 1978
**[[Cross country running|Cross country]] (12&nbsp;km): 1980
*[[Italian Athletics Indoor Championships]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/nc/itai.htm|title=ITALIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS|publisher=gbrathletics.com|access-date=22 August 2017}}</ref>
**[[3000 metres]]: 1978

==See also==
* [[FIDAL Hall of Fame]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{sports links}}

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[[Category:Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy]]
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