Zaynab Dosso

Zaynab Dosso
Personal information
National teamItaly (13 caps)[1]
Born (1999-09-12) 12 September 1999
Man, Ivory Coast
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event
Sprinting
ClubFiamme Azzurre[1]
Coached byLoredana Riccardi
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
Medal record
Representing  Italy
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place2026 Toruń60 m
Silver medal – second place2025 Nanjing60 m
Bronze medal – third place2024 Glasgow60 m
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place2022 Munich4 × 100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place2024 Rome100 m
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place2025 Apeldoorn60 m
Julien Alfred and Zaynab Dosso at Glasgow 2024.

Zaynab Dosso (born 12 September 1999) is an Italian sprinter. She is the reigning World Indoor Championships over 60 metres, having won the gold medal at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships. She previously won the silver medal at the championships in 2025 and the bronze medal in 2024, as well as the gold medal at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in 4 × 100 m relay.[2]

Biography

Zaynab is the daughter of Ivorian parents who moved to Italy in 2002; she came to Italy herself in 2009 when she was ten years old. Dosso acquired Italian citizenship in 2016.[1]

A specialist over 60 metres, Dosso won the bronze medal in Glasgow at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships, and the silver medal at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Nanjing. In 2026, she ran 7.00 seconds in both the semi-final and final to win the gold medal over 60 metres at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships ahead of American Jacious Sears and 2024 Olympic gold medalist Julien Alfred. The win came on the same evening as Nadia Battocletti won the 3000 metres, with the gold medals marking Italy's first at the Championships since Fiona May claimed the long jump victory in 1997.[3][4][5] The 2026 Championships took place in Toruń, Poland, in March 2026. In the previous month, Dosso became only the fifth European woman to run below seven seconds, setting a 6.99 seconds personal best and national record at the Copernicus Cup in Toruń. Her previous personal best was 7.01 seconds which she had run to win the gold medal at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.[6][7]

Over 100 metres, Dosso is a multiple-time Italian national champion and won the bronze medal at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, setting the Italian national record of 11.01 seconds that year.[8]

National records

Achievements

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventPerformanceNotes
2019 European Team Championships Poland Bydgoszcz 5th 100 m 11.70 [note 1]
6th 4 × 100 m relay 44.20 SB
2022 World Indoor Championships Serbia Belgrade 12th 60 m 7.16 [note 2]
World Championships United States Eugene 21st 100 m 11.28 [note 3]
8th 4 × 100 m relay 42.92 [note 4]
European Championships Germany Munich 7th 100 m 11.37 [note 5]
3rd 4 × 100 m relay 42.84
2023 European Team Championships Poland Chorzów 12th 100 m 11.45 SB
2023 World Athletics Championships Hungary Budapest 18th 100 m 11.19 [note 6]
4th 4 × 100 m relay 42.49 [note 7]
2024 World Indoor Championships United Kingdom Glasgow 3rd 60 m 7.05
World Relays The Bahamas Nassau 11th 4 × 100 m relay 43.08
European Championships Italy Rome 3rd 100 m 11.03 [note 8]
2025 European Indoor Championships Netherlands Apeldoorn 1st 60 m 7.01 NR
World Indoor Championships China Nanjing 2nd 60 m 7.06
2026 World Indoor Championships Poland Toruń 1st 60 m 7.00

National titles

She has won ten national titles at individual senior level.

Personal bests

Outdoor

Indoor

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ She ran a better crono 11.49 in the heats
  2. ↑ She ran a better crono 7.14 SB in semi-finals
  3. ↑ She ran a better crono 11.26 in semi-finals
  4. ↑ They ran a better crono 42.71 SB in semi-finals
  5. ↑ She ran a better crono 11.28 in semi-finals
  6. ↑ She ran a better crono 11.14 SB in the heats
  7. ↑ They set a 42.14 NR in the heats
  8. ↑ She ran a better crono and set a NR of 11.01 in the heats.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Zaynab Dosso Biography". fidal.it (in Italian). Retrieved 10 June 2024.
  2. ↑ "Athletics DOSSO Zaynab". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 14 October 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  3. ↑ Broadbent, Chris (21 March 2026). "Magnifico! Dosso wins world indoor 60m title for Italy". European Athletics. Retrieved 22 March 2026.
  4. ↑ "Dosso completes world indoor medal set with 60m gold in Kujawy Pomorze". World Athletics. 21 March 2026. Retrieved 21 March 2026.
  5. ↑ "GOLDEN MOMENT FOR ZAYNAB DOSSO IN WORLD 60M FINAL". Athletics Weekly. 21 March 2026. Retrieved 22 March 2026.
  6. ↑ "Dosso and Charlton Set World Leads at Copernicus Cup in Toruń". Watch Athletics. 22 February 2026. Retrieved 22 March 2026.
  7. ↑ Broadbent, Chris (22 February 2026). "6.99! Dosso becomes only fifth European woman under seven seconds". European Athletics. Retrieved 22 March 2026.
  8. ↑ "Dosso runs 60 meters in Belgrade. It's the first race after the Olympics". quotidiano.net. 29 January 2025. Retrieved 22 March 2026.
  9. 1 2 "Europei atletica, Zaynab Dosso in finale nei 100m donne: nuovo record italiano, 11.01". ilmessaggero.it (in Italian). 9 June 2024. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
  10. ↑ "Jacobs e Dosso, tricolore nel vento". fidal.it (in Italian). 29 August 2020. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
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