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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. [1]
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| Born | 9 February 1998 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
| Event | Long distance running | |||||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||||||||
| Personal best | 5000m: 13:45.08 (2024) | |||||||||||||||||
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Sebastiano Parolini (born 9 February 1998) is an Italian runner. [1]
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 U23 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]
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. [9]
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