Sara Cirillo
.jpg) Cirillo in 2026 | |||||||||||||||
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| National team | Italian Team | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 April 2004 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | 400 m | ||||||||||||||
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Sara Cirillo (born 12 April 2004) is an Italian sprinter. She won a bronze medal at the 2026 European Championships.[1]
Biography
[edit]From Ostia, Rome, Cirillo participated in swimming and artistic gymnastics before focusing on athletics, training at the Fiamme Gialle facilities in Castelporziano. She was initially coached by Claudio Licciardello and then by Luca Pasquale Porcelluzzi. In 2022, she achieved second place in her Italian age-group indoor championships over 400 metres. She later became a member of Acsi Futuratletica and coached by Marta Oliva from 2024 in Cecchignola.[2]
In February 2025, she ran an outright lifetime best in placing third in 55.42 seconds in the 400 metres at the Italian Junior Championships.[3] She won the 2026 Italian U23 indoor title in the 400 metres, before running a new indoor personal best of 53.25 seconds in qualifying for the final of the senior Italian Indoor Athletics Championships in Ancona in February 2026.[2][4][5]
Cirillo was included in the Italian national team squad for the 2026 World Athletics Relays in Gaborone, Botswana in May 2026.[6] At the Silver Gala in Rome in June 2026, Cirillo won the 400 m race with a time of 51.90 seconds to move to second on the Italian all-time under-23 list.[7] In July, she improved that time to 51.86 seconds at the Italian U23 Championships in Molfetta, before placing fifth in the final of the 400 metres at the senior Italian Athletics Championships.[8][9] She was a bronze medalist in August at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, England, running in the preliminary round of the women's 4 × 400 metres relay.[10][11]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Sara Cirillo". World Athletics. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
- 1 2 "Sara Cirillo". Fidal. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
- ↑ "BRONZE FOR CIRILLO AND TWO FOURTH PLACES". acsitaliatletica.it. 3 February 2025. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
- ↑ "Italian Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 28 February 2026. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
- ↑ "Italian U23 Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 8 February 2026. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
- ↑ Nicolaysen, Erik (13 April 2026). "Italy's squad for the World Relays: Dosso leads the Italian team in the 4x100, with many absentees". OA Sport. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
- ↑ "Silver Gala: Sara Cirillo takes the lead with 51.90". Fidal. 3 June 2026. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
- ↑ "Italian U23 Championships". World Athletics. 11 July 2026. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
- ↑ "Italian Championships". World Athletics. 26 July 2026. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
- ↑ "Italy wins bronze in the women's 4x400. Polinari: "Winning with the boys makes me want to cry,"". La Gazzetta dello Sport. 16 August 2026. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
- ↑ "Europeans, Prof. Di Mulo's 4x400 sets the Italian record and advances to the final with the best time". lasicilia.it. 14 August 2026. Retrieved 14 August 2026.
