Marco Lingua (born 4 June 1978 in Chivasso, Piedmont) is an Italian hammer thrower, writer, actor, TV personality and former weightlifter.

He started practicing athletics in 1994 at the age of 16, category Allievi, with a company in his hometown, the Chivassesi Sports Group.

The year 1998 sees him win three medals in the hammer at the Italian championships: silver promises of winter launches, gold under 23 and bronze to the absolutes of Rome.

On 9 October, in Macerata, he signed the new best Italian performance Promesse with 76.72 m, beating the previous record of 75.60 m held by Loris Paoluzzi since 1996.

The 2012 sees him present in Finland at the Europeans in Helsinki where he can not access the final; also at the Italian championships wins silver at the winter and bronze at the absolutes of Bressanone.

In the international arena, he won the bronze medal in Romania in the Winter European Cup of launches in Arad; he also took part in both the Amsterdam European Championships in the Netherlands, finishing in 11th place and the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games in Brazil, where he failed to gain access to the final.

Between the months of March and June he obtained twice the sixth position in continental seniors: on 12 March on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria, he competed in the Winter European Cup of launches, while on 25 June he competed in France in the Super League of the European Championships in Villeneuve d'Ascq / Lille.

On 2 July, at the Italian absolute championships in Trieste, at the sixth and last launch available, he passed Simone Falloni and graduated with a 73.84 m national champion [7].

In 2007 he participated, as an actor in the same part of himself, to the web series NFDMT (episode Carnevale a Ivrea directed by Davide Lingua, of Verolengo, & Michele Melillo) and in 2008 he wrote the autobiographical book, together with G. Mario Castaldi, L'uomo che vinse due volte.

[2] The athlete for 27 consecutive seasons from 1998 to 2024, from 20 to 46 years old, managed to throw the hammer over 72 m.[3] Marco Lingua has won 18 times the individual national championship.