Sebastiano Parolini
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| Born | 9 February 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Long distance running | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | 5000m: 13:45.08 (2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sebastiano Parolini (born 9 February 1998) is an Italian runner. He was a gold medalist in the mixed team relay at the 2024 European Cross Country Championships.[1]
Career
[edit]He won a silver medal in the U23 team race at the 2019 European Cross Country Championships, having finished in 17th place individually.[2] In 2020, he was third in the Italian U23 indoor championships over 3000 metres, and runner-up in the Italian Championships outdoors over both 5000 metres and 10,000 metres.[3]
He had success in a number of domestic races in 2022 and lowered his 1500 metres personal best to 3:41.[4] In November 2023, he won the short course race at the Turin Internarional Cross.[5]
He became Italian short course cross country champion in March 2024.[6][7] On 8 December 2024, he was part of the Italian mixed relay team which won the gold medal at the 2024 European Cross Country Championships in Antalya, Turkey.[8] In January 2025, whilst running in the colours of Gruppo Alpinistico Vertovese (GAV), he won the Campaccio, short course cross country race held in San Giorgio su Legnano, Milan in a time of 10:11, while Nadia Battocletti won the women's race.[9]
He won the short course 3 km race at Cinque Mulini in November 2025.[10] He won the gold medal in the mixed team relay at the 2025 European Cross Country Championships in Portugal.[11] Later that month, running a 5 km race on the roads in Battersea, England on 31 December, he placed third in 13:38.[12]
In August 2026, he competed at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, England, in the 5000 metres.[13]
Personal life
[edit]He is from Barzizza, a hamlet of Gandino in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy. His father Gerardo was a football player and his mother Daniela Vassalli is an athlete. He studied medicine at the University of Brescia.[3] He then specialised in sports medicine at the University of Milano-Bicocca and worked as a doctor for the Italian national freestyle and alpine skiing teams.[14]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Sebastiano Parolini". World Athletics. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
- ↑ "Jacopo De Marchi and Sebastiano Parolini: the Ringo Starrs of Italian Cross". Sprintnews.it. 14 May 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
- 1 2 "Sebastiano Parolini: "University and athletics, I'll explain how it's done"". Montagnaexpress. February 25, 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
- ↑ "SPORTRun in the Villages, Sebastiano Parolini scores a hat-trick in Cerete". valseriananews. 20 August 2024. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
- ↑ ""Parolini is back": victory in the short at the Turin International Cross". Terzo Tempo Sport Magazine. 19 November 2023. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
- ↑ "Short cross, Sebastiano Parolini is the absolute Italian champion". Terzo Tempo Sport Magazine. 10 March 2024. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
- ↑ "National Cross Country Teams: Parolini and the Bosio Brothers Light Up Val Gandino". Beegamoesport. 10 March 2024. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
- ↑ "Italy regain mixed relay title in closest ever finish at Antalya 2024". European Athletics. 8 December 2024. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
- ↑ Cangelli, Marco (6 January 2025). "Campaccio, Sebastiano Parolini vince il cross corto". Terzotenposportmagazine.it (in Italian). Retrieved 22 April 2025.
- ↑ Mills, Steven (23 Nov 2025). "Schrub and Zarbo finish second at Cross d'Allonnes on the road to Lagoa". European Athletics. Retrieved 23 November 2025.
- ↑ Broadbent, Chris (14 Dec 2025). "Italy retain mixed relay title as Nader sprints to silver for Portugal". European Athletics. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- ↑ "ALEX BELL AND JOE WIGFIELD RUN 5KM PBS IN BATTERSEA". Athletics Weekly. 31 Dec 2025. Retrieved 1 Jan 2026.
- ↑ "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 10 August 2026. Retrieved 19 August 2026.
- ↑ "Sebastiano Parolini G. ALPINISTICO VERTOVESE". Fidal.it. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
External links
[edit]- Sebastiano Parolini at World Athletics
- Sebastiano Parolini at Tilastopaja (registration required)
- Sebastiano Parolini at the Italian Athletics Federation (in Italian)
- Sebastiano Parolini at InterSportStats
