Career
He followed this with a bronze medal in the 2004 Olympics. He has 28 caps in national team from 1998 to 2011. He participated in three Olympic Games and four world championships.
In 2007, Gibilisco was suspended by the FIDAL (Italian Athletics Federation) with a two-year ban, due to his involvement in the "Oil for Drugs" case and his relation with suspect doctor Carlo Santuccione, although he had never tested positive, but two months after the Board of Appeals reverses the ruling and decide for acquittal.
In 2011, he could otterner 5.70, minimum qualification to the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South of Korea, but the IAAF does not approve because the result obtained in an esibition event in a streets in Landau, Germany. In 2012 he jumped 5:52 m in Liévin, France indoor and, as a result of an injury, not disputing the outdoor season thus losing the possibility to participate in his fourth Olympics.
At the 23 July 2013 he jumped 24 time 5.70 m outdoor, in Italy three other athletes were capable of doing so on six occasions: Fabio Pizzolato (only one jump at 575 m), Mauro Maurilio Mariani (three times 570 m) and Gianni Iapichino, former Fiona May husband (two times 570 m). In the indoor seasons he jumped other six times at least 5.70 m, one time in 2003 and 2010, and 4 times in 2004.
Pole vault: 5.90 m ( Paris, 28 August 2003) - current holder
Pole vault indoor: 5.82 m ( Donetsk, 15 February 2004) - current holder
Outdoor
He finished the season 9 times in world top 25 (5 outdoor, 4 indoor), in 2003 and 2004 he finished in fourth place outdoor, in 2004 he finished 2nd indoor.
Indoor
3 wins in the pole vault indoor (2001, 2002, 2004).