Yassin Bandaogo (born 6 January 2004) is an Italian sprinter. He won the Italian Indoor Athletics Championships in 2025 over 60 metres.[1]

Career

A keen footballer in his youth he later focused only on athletics, starting athletics training in Breganze with Antonio Lazzarettoz he Italian titles in a series of age-group categories and became a member of Atletica Vicentina under Umberto Pegoraro and part of Fiamme Oro.[2] In 2023, he competed at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships, where he reached the semi-finals of the 100 metres.[3]

He ran a 60 metres personal best of 6.63 seconds to win the Italian U23 Championships in 2025, five hundredths from the Italian U23 record set by Filippo Tortu in 2019.[4] He won the Italian Indoor Athletics Championships in 2025 over 60 metres in February 2025, with a time of 6.69 seconds, beating Stephen Awuah Baffour and Samuele Ceccarelli by a hundredth of a second.[5]

He was selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025.[6]

Personal life

He is from Thiene in the province of Vicenza in the Veneto region of Italy.[7][8] His parents are from Burkino Faso.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Yassin Bandaogo". World Athletics. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
  2. ^ a b Vigonesi, Alberto (3 February 2025). "Ad Ancona il thienese Bandaogo veloce come Jacobs". ilgiornaledivicenza.it. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
  3. ^ "Athletics, Under 20 European Championships: Furlani takes the cover, Capasso in the 100m final, superb Azzurri debut". OASport. 7 August 2023. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
  4. ^ "Athletics Italy discovers Yassin Bandaogo: sparkling sprinter, caresses Tortu's record". OASport. 1 February 2025. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
  5. ^ "Athletics, Bandaogo narrowly beats Baffour and Ceccarelli in the 60 meters. High times at the Italian Championships". OASport. 23 February 2025. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
  6. ^ "Nanchino: 21 azzurri per i Mondiali indoor". Fidal.it. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
  7. ^ "Ludi Del Bo, Bandaogo e Lazzaro promossi con lode". Raceadvisor.run. 24 April 2021. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
  8. ^ Vigonesi, Alberto (24 Feb 2025). "Vicenza native Yassin Bandaogo, Italian 60m champion". Ilgiornaledvicenza. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
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