José Alessandro Bagio
José Alessandro Bernardo Bagio (born April 16, 1981 in Orleans, Santa Catarina) is a Brazilian race walker.[1] He won the gold medal for the 20,000 metres walk at the 2008 Ibero-American Championships in Iquique, Chile, with a time of 1:23:12.6.
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Full name | José Alessandro Bernardo Bagio | ||||||||||||||||
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Born | Orleans, Santa Catarina, Brazil | 16 April 1981||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Race walking | ||||||||||||||||
Club | FM Timbó | ||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 20 km walk: 1:21:43 (2008) | ||||||||||||||||
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Bagio made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed fourteenth in the men's 20 km race walk, with a time of 1:23:33. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Bagio repeated his position from Athens in the same event, with a well-improved, seasonal best time of 1:21:43, finishing behind Spain's Benjamin Sánchez by five seconds.[2]
On March 31, 2011, Bagio was tested positive for the steroid called 19-Norandrosterone, during a national race walking competition in Brazil, a year before. He served a two-year suspension by IAAF, making him ineligible to compete for the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, and most importantly, for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[3]
Achievements
References
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "José Alessandro Bagio". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
- "Men's 20km Race Walk". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 5 January 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
- "Brazilian race walker suspended 2 years for doping". USA Today. 31 March 2011. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
External links
- José Alessandro Bagio at World Athletics
- Profile – UOL Esporte (in Portuguese)
- NBC 2008 Olympics profile