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
A keen footballer in his youth, he later focused solely on athletics, beginning his training in Breganze under coach Antonio Lazzarettoz. He went on to win Italian national titles across various age-group categories and became a member of Atletica Vicentina under Umberto Pegoraro, as well as joining the sports group Fiamme Oro.[2] In 2023, he competed at the European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem, Israel, where he reached the semi-finals of the 100 metres race.
He ran a personal best of 6.63 seconds in the 60 metres to win the Italian U23 Championships in early 2025, just five hundredths from the Italian U23 record set by Filippo Tortu in 2019.[3] 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.[4]
He was selected as a member of the Italian team for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, in March 2025.[5] 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.[6]
Personal life
He is from Thiene in the province of Vicenza in the Veneto region of Italy.[7][8] His parents are originally from Burkino Faso before they emigrated to Italy. He is a Muslim.[2][9]
References
- ^ "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 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.