W2014 Italian Athletics Indoor Championships was the 45th edition of the Italian Athletics Indoor Championships and were held in Ancona.
WThe 2014 season for Cannondale began in January with the Tour de San Luis. As a UCI ProTeam, Cannondale were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.
WItaly competed at the 2014 European Athletics Championships in Zürich, Switzerland, between 12 and 17 August 2014. A delegation of 78 athletes were sent to represent the country.
WThe 2014 Giro d'Italia was the 97th running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tour races.
WThe 2014 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 7 September at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza in Monza, Lombardy. It was the 13th round of the 2014 Formula One World Championship and the 65th running of the event held as part of the series. The 53-lap race was won by Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton from pole position. His teammate Nico Rosberg finished second and Williams driver Felipe Massa took third.
WItaly competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, in Nanjing, China from 16 August to 28 August 2014.
WThe 2014 season for Lampre–Merida began in January at the Tour de San Luis. As a UCI ProTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.
WThe 2014 Milan–San Remo was the 105th running of the Milan–San Remo single-day monument classic cycling race. It was held on Sunday 23 March over a distance of 294 kilometres and was the fourth race of the 2014 UCI World Tour season. It was won in the sprint by Alexander Kristoff, ahead of Fabian Cancellara and Ben Swift.
WThe eighth edition of the Strade Bianche cycling race was held on 8 March 2014. The race started in San Gimignano and finished on the Piazza del Campo in Siena's city centre.
WItaly competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, from 7 to 23 February 2014. On 21 February it was announced that bobsledder William Frullani had tested positive for methylhexanamine and was sent home from Sochi. For the first time since 1980, Italy failed to win a gold medal in an Olympics. Closest was the alpine skier Christof Innerhofer who lost the gold in downhill against Matthias Mayer of Austria with only six hundredths of a second separating the two.
WItaly competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia, held between 7–16 March 2014.
WThe 31st World Orienteering Championships was held in the Trentino and Veneto regions of Italy, from 5 to 12 July 2014. It was the first time that Mixed Sprint Relay is a part of the program at a World Championships.