Sebastiano Parolini
Italian athlete (born 1998)
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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]
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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) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
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 3km 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 5km race on the roads in Battersea, England on 31 December, he placed third in 13:38.[12]
Personal life
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.[13]