Yassin Bandaogo
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Italian |
| Born | 6 January 2004 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Sprint |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 60m: 6.63 (Ancona, 2025) 100m: 10.51 (Jerusalem, 2023) |
Yassin Bandaogo (born 6 January 2004) is an Italian sprinter. He won the Italian Indoor Athletics Championships in 2025 over 60 metres and competed at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships.[1]
Career
[edit]A keen footballer in his youth he later focused only on athletics, starting athletics training in Breganze with coach Antonio Lazzarettoz. He won Italian national titles in a series of age-group categories, and became a member of Atletica Vicentina under Umberto Pegoraro as well as becoming a member of Fiamme Oro.[2] In 2023, he competed at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships, in Jerusalem, Israel, where he reached the semi-finals of the 100 metres race.[3]
He ran a 60 metres personal best of 6.63 seconds to win the Italian U23 Championships in early 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 as a member of the Italian team for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, in March 2025.[6] Competing at the championships, he ran his 60 metres heat in a time 6.74 seconds but did not progress through to the semi-final, missing out on a spot as a fastest non-automatic qualifier by seven hundredths of a second.[7]
Personal life
[edit]He is from Thiene in the province of Vicenza in the Veneto region of Italy.[8][9] His parents are originally from Burkino Faso before they emigrated to Italy. He is a Muslim.[2][10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Yassin Bandaogo". World Athletics. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
- ^ a b Vigonesi, Alberto (3 February 2025). "Ad Ancona il thienese Bandaogo veloce come Jacobs". ilgiornaledivicenza.it. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Athletics Italy discovers Yassin Bandaogo: sparkling sprinter, caresses Tortu's record". OASport. 1 February 2025. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Nanchino: 21 azzurri per i Mondiali indoor". Fidal.it. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
- ^ "Men's 60m Results - World Athletics Indoor Championships 2025". Watch Athletics. 21 March 2025. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ "Ludi Del Bo, Bandaogo e Lazzaro promossi con lode". Raceadvisor.run. 24 April 2021. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
- ^ Vigonesi, Alberto (24 Feb 2025). "Vicenza native Yassin Bandaogo, Italian 60m champion". Ilgiornaledvicenza. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
- ^ "L'erede di Jacobs ha 17 anni, vive a Thiene e sarà presto azzurro". ilgiornaledivicenza.it. 1 September 2021. Retrieved 22 April 2025.