Antonio Baldassare Infantino (born 23 March 1991) is an Italian
sprint
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er who has won two
national titles at the
senior
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level. He competed at the
2020 Summer Olympics
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, in
200 m
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Career
Born in
England to Italian parents, Infantino trains at the Lee Valley Athletics Center in
London, where he grew up sporting. He participated in one edition of the
European Athletics Championships in 2016, one of the World Athletics Championships in Doha 2019 and one World Athletics Relays Championships in 2021. In 2021 he made his first Olympic Games, qualifying for both the 200m and 4x100m relay.
In April 2022 he was suspended for thee years for a doping violation.
National titles
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Italian Athletics Championships
** 200 metres:
2019
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, 2020
See also
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Italian all-time lists - 200 metres
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List of eligibility transfers in athletics
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To countries in Africa
To countries in the Americas
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Naturalized athletes of Italy
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The rules
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References
External links
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1991 births
Living people
Italian male sprinters
Sportspeople from Welwyn Garden City
Italian Athletics Championships winners
Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Italy
Doping cases in athletics
21st-century Italian people