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[[File:Stadio Raul Guidobaldi, Rieti - tribuna Velino 01.JPG|thumb|left|[[Athletics (sport)|Athletics]] venue [[stadio Raul Guidobaldi]]]]
* [[Stadio Raul Guidobaldi]] in Rieti hosts every year since 1971 the [[Rieti Meeting]], an international [[Athletics (sport)|athletics]] event known for the many world records settled here, to the point that [[Steve Cram]] defined Rieti as "a [[Mecca]] for middle-distance runners looking for fast times".<ref>Steve Cram. [https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2007/sep/10/whyisasmalltowninitalys Why is a small town in Italy such a mecca for world records?] The Guardian, 11 September 2007.</ref> Example of these include Jamaican sprinter [[Asafa Powell]], who ran the then world record time of 9.74 s in the 100 meters at the Rieti meeting on September 9, 2007 (the record stood until [[Usain Bolt]] broke it on 31 May 2008) and Kenyan runner [[David Rudisha]], who ran a world record time of 1:41.01 in the 800 meters at the Rieti meeting on August 29, 2010 (the record stood until Rudisha beat his own mark at the [[2012 Summer Olympics]] in London, running a 1:40:91 on August 9, 2012).
* The [[2013 European Athletics Junior Championships|2013 edition]] of [[European Athletics Junior Championships]] were also held at the
[[File:PalaSojournerRIETI-NSB-MPS0003.jpg|thumb|Basketball match of [[Nuova AMG Sebastiani Basket Rieti|Nuova AMG Sebastiani]] at [[PalaSojourner]]]]
* Rieti is the base of a strong [[Athletics (sport)|athletics]] movement, with an average of one athlete every forty inhabitants.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2003/luglio/30/Rieti_tutti_pista_mille_tesserati_co_10_030730021.shtml|author=Valerio Vecchiarelli|title=A Rieti tutti in pista: mille tesserati su 40 mila abitanti|publisher=[[Corriere della Sera]]|page=45|date=30 July 2003|access-date=29 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151219235644/http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2003/luglio/30/Rieti_tutti_pista_mille_tesserati_co_10_030730021.shtml|archive-date=19 December 2015}}</ref> [[Atletica Studentesca Andrea Milardi]], formerly known as ''Atletica Studentesca CARIRI'', is the main athletics team and has been the place where many Italian athletes grew up to become part of the [[Italy national athletics team]]. Among them is [[Andrew Howe]], born in Los Angeles but grown up in Rieti,<ref>[http://cinquantamila.corriere.it/storyTellerThread.php?threadId=HOWE+Andrew Andrew Howe], by Giorgio Dell'Arti and Massimo Parrini, in ''Catalogo dei viventi 2009'', Marsilio publishing house.</ref> [[Angelo Cipolloni]], [[Patrizia Spuri]], [[Roberto Donati]], [[Lorenzo Valentini]] and many others.
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