Italian athlete (born 1998)
Sebastiano Parolini (born 9 February 1998) is an Italian runner.
Career.
He won a silver medal in the U23 team race at the 2019 European Cross Country Championships, having finished in 17th place individually. 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.
He had success in a number of domestic races in 2022 and lowered his 1500 metres personal best to 3:41. In November 2023, he won the short course race at the Turin Internarional Cross.
He became Italian short course cross country champion in March 2024. 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.
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. 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.
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