Zaynab Dosso
Italian sprinter (born 1999)
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Zaynab Dosso (born 12 September 1999) is an Italian sprinter. She is the reigning World Indoor Championships over 60 metres, having won the gold medal at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships. She previously won the silver medal at the championships in 2025 and the bronze medal in 2024, as well as the gold medal at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in 4 × 100 m relay.[2]
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| Personal information | |
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| National team | Italy (13 caps)[1] |
| Born | 12 September 1999 |
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event | Sprinting |
| Club | Fiamme Azzurre[1] |
| Coached by | Loredana Riccardi |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal bests |
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Biography
Zaynab is the daughter of Ivorian parents who moved to Italy in 2002; she came to Italy herself in 2009 when she was ten years old. Dosso acquired Italian citizenship in 2016.[1]
A specialist over 60 metres, Dosso won the bronze medal in Glasgow at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships, and the silver medal at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Nanjing. In 2026, she ran 7.00 seconds in both the semi-final and final to win the gold medal over 60 metres at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships ahead of American Jacious Sears and 2024 Olympic gold medalist Julien Alfred. The win came on the same evening as Nadia Battocletti won the 3000 metres, with the gold medals marking Italy's first at the Championships since Fiona May claimed the long jump victory in 1997.[3][4][5] The 2026 Championships took place in Toruń, Poland, in March 2026. In the previous month, Dosso became only the fifth European woman to run below seven seconds, setting a 6.99 seconds personal best and national record at the Copernicus Cup in Toruń. Her previous personal best was 7.01 seconds which she had run to win the gold medal at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.[6][7]
Over 100 metres, Dosso is a multiple-time Italian national champion and won the bronze medal at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, setting the Italian national record of 11.01 seconds that year.[8]
Athletics achievements
Information from her World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.[9]
Personal bests
| Type | Distance | Time (s) | Wind (m/s) | Venue | Date | Notes |
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| Individual events | ||||||
| Indoor | 50 metres | 6.09 | N/a | Ostrava, Czech Republic | 3 February 2026 | NR |
| 60 metres | 6.99 | N/a | Toruń, Poland | 22 February 2026 | NR | |
| 200 metres sh | 24.01 | N/a | Ancona, Italy | 5 February 2017 | ||
| Outdoor | 100 metres | 11.01 | +2.0 | Rome, Italy | 9 June 2024 | NR[10] |
| 150 metres | 17.21 | -1.1 | Rome, Italy | 12 May 2022 | ||
| 200 metres | 23.10 | -0.4 | Rome, Italy | 18 May 2024 | ||
| Team events | ||||||
| Indoor | 4 × 200 metres relay sh | 1:37.85 | N/a | Halle, Germany | 4 March 2017 | |
| Outdoor | 4 × 100 metres relay | 42.14 | N/a | Budapest, Hungary | 25 August 2023 | NR |
International competitions
National titles
She has won ten national titles at individual senior level.
