 Zarbo in 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | French | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 September 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Long distance running, Cross country running | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 10000m: 31:50:62 (Pacé, 2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Alessia Zarbo (born 11 September 2001) is a French long distance and cross country runner. In 2020, she became French national champion over 10,000 metres. [1]
Zarbo was a gold medallist in the 3,000 metres at the 2017 European Youth Olympic Festival in Győr, Hungary. [2] She was a bronze medallist in the same distance at the 2018 European Athletics U18 Championships in the same city with a personal best 9:25.25. [3] She finished eighth in the 3000 metres at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires. [4]
Zarbo became French national champion in the 5000 metres at the 2020 French Athletics Championships in Albi. [5] She ran a personal best time for the 10,000 metres in May 2022 in Eugene, Oregon, United States, running a time of 32:28.57. [6] She competed at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in the 10,000 metres in August 2022. [7]
In April 2024, she qualified for the 10,000m event at the 2024 Paris Olympics, by finishing in 6th place in the world cross-country rankings. [8] She competed in the 10,000 metres in Paris in August 2024 but did not finish the race. [9]
In May 2025, she ran a personal best 31:50:62 and won the silver medal in the senior women’s race at the European 10,000m Cup in Pacé, France. [10]
From Antibes, she trains in Nice, France. [11] Her brother Raffael Zarbo is a cyclist. [12] She attended the University of Oregon. [13]
