Pascal Mancini

Pascal Mancini ( born April 18, 1989 in Fribourg ) is a Swiss track and field athlete, specialized in the sprint. He is a Swiss U23 and junior record holder in the 60 - meter dash in the hall.

Soon it became Mancini be slightly athletic talent when he consisting of Sprint, jump and throw his year reached the age of 13 at the National Athletic Cup in powerlifting the best performance. In 2006 he took over as the only 16 -year-old Swiss junior record over 60 meters in the hall. Outdoors he undercut in the same year in the 100 -meter run, the limits for the Junior World Championships in Athletics, but was unable to attend because of participants is limited ( two athletes per country).

In 2008, he lowered his junior record in the 60 - meter dash at 6.78 seconds and was in this distance, Swiss Indoor champion. In the U -20 World Championships 2008 Mancini is about 100 meters on the 14th Place.

In 2009 he finished in twelfth place at the Indoor Athletics Championships in the 60 meter dash. Because of his success he was accepted World Class potential of Swiss Athletics in April 2009 in the support program. In July of the same year, Mancini finished at the European U23 Championships in Kaunas over 100 meters the tenth, about 200 meters on the 17th rank. In addition, he belongs to since this year the Swiss 4 x 100 - meter relay. In 2009, this with Mancini on a new national record with a time of 38.78 s.

2010 Mancini was again Swiss indoor champion in the 60 meters. At the World Indoor Championships in Doha, he won over 60 meters 17th place. At the European Championships, he finished with the 4 x 100 m relay in fourth place with a new national record of 38.69 s

2011 began for Mancini with the qualifiers for the European Indoor Championships and the Swiss Indoor Champion title in the 60 - meter dash. At the European Indoor Championships Mancini was able to reduce its Best Performance by six hundredths of a second to 6.61 s in flow, but different in the semi-final from. Mancini could not qualify for the finals also in the U23 European Athletics Championships in the 100 -meter run.

On September 8, 2011 Mancini improved with the Swiss 4 x 100 - meter relay during the Diamond League meeting in Zurich Letzigrund the Swiss record by 0.07 seconds, 38.62 s This record but was subsequently withdrawn because Mancini violated the anti- doping regulations. Subsequently, he was punished by the IAAF with a warning. On January 25, 2012 it was announced that Mancini was tested positive for the anabolic steroid Nadrolon each in a doping test on 22 November and 8 December. Therefore he renounced the indoor season of 2012. In July, the disciplinary chamber for doping cases of Swiss Olympic imposed retroactively by 30 January 2012 a two-year doping ban against Mancini.

Mancini started at a young age for the CA Fribourg, but then moved to Stade Genève. He is coached by Laurent Meuwly.

Personal best

  • 60 -meter run (Hall ): 6.78 s, February 9, 2008 Magglingen, Swiss junior record
  • 60 -meter run (Hall ): 6.79 s, 25 February, 2006 Magglingen, Swiss U18 record
Pasquale Stanislao Mancini 60 metres 4 × 100 metres relay 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships 2010 European Athletics Championships 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships International Association of Athletics Federations Zofingen
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