Pascal Mancini

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Pascal Mancini at the 2014 European Championships

Pascal Mancini (born April 18, 1989 in Friborg ) is a Swiss athlete specializing in the sprint . He is the Swiss U23 and junior record holder in the 60 meter run in the hall.

Junior career

Pascal Mancini showed his athletic talent at an early age when, at the age of 13 , he achieved the best performance of his year in the national Athletic Cup in a three-way fight consisting of sprint, jump and throw. In 2006, at the age of 16, he set the Swiss junior record over 60 meters indoors. In the same year, he undercut the limits for the Junior Athletics World Championships in the 100-meter run outdoors, but could not take part due to the number of participants (two athletes per country).

In 2008 he lowered the junior record in the 60-meter run to 6.78 s and became Swiss indoor champion in this distance. At the U-20 World Championships in 2008 Mancini finished 14th over 100 meters.

In 2009 he finished twelfth in the European Athletics Indoor Championships in the 60-meter run. Due to his success, he was accepted into the World Class Potential support program of Swiss Athletics in April 2009 . In July of the same year Mancini finished tenth at the U23 European Championships in Kaunas over 100 meters and 17th over 200 meters. He has also been a member of the Swiss 4 x 100 meter relay since this year . In 2009 it set a new Swiss record with Mancini with a time of 38.78 s.

Adult career

In 2010 Mancini was again Swiss indoor champion over 60 meters. At the World Indoor Championships in Doha , he finished 17th over 60 meters. At the European Championships , he finished 4th with the 4 x 100 meter relay with a new Swiss record of 38.69 seconds.

2011 began for Mancini with the qualification for the European Indoor Championships and the Swiss indoor championship in the 60-meter run. At the European Indoor Championships, Mancini was able to lower his best performance by six hundredths of a second to 6.61 s, but was eliminated in the semifinals. Even at the U23 European Athletics Championships, Mancini could not qualify for the final in the 100-meter run.

On September 8, 2011, Mancini improved the Swiss record by seven hundredths of a second to 38.62 s with the Swiss 4 x 100 meter relay at the Diamond League meeting in Zurich's Letzigrund. This record was subsequently revoked because Mancini violated the anti-doping regulations. Thereupon he was punished by the IAAF with a warning. On January 25, 2012 it was announced that Mancini had tested positive for the anabolic steroid 19-norandosterone, a nandrolone , in doping tests on November 22nd and December 8th . He therefore renounced the 2012 indoor season. In July, the Swiss Olympic disciplinary body for doping cases imposed a two-year doping ban on Mancini with retroactive effect from January 30, 2012. The IAAF banned him until January 29, 2014.

After this doping ban had expired, Mancini contested several indoor competitions in the winter of 2014. At the beginning of the outdoor season he demonstrated his good form and on June 9, 2014 in Basel, with his new personal best of 10.28 s (+1.3), he beat the Swiss norm for the 2014 European Athletics Championships in Zurich over 100 -Meter. There he ran the preliminary run in 10.43 s and qualified for the semifinals thanks to 2nd place in his series. He completed this in 10.38 s, which was not enough for the final. In the 4 x 100 meter relay, Mancini and the Swiss men missed third place by a few hundredths of a second.

In the winter of 2015, Pascal Mancini ran the 60 meters in 6.68 s in the final run of the Swiss Indoor Championships in Magglingen. During this time he not only won the gold medal, but also undercut the limit for the European Athletics Indoor Championships 2015 in Prague (6.70 s).

Mancini was also selected for the 4 x 100 meter relay, which started from May 2nd to 3rd in the Bahamas at the 2015 World Relay Championship.

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

Controversy over right-wing extremist positions

Since Mancini had attracted attention at the Swiss Championships in 2014 and the European Championships in the same year with nationalistic gestures ( Quenelle salute , also known as the reverse Hitler salute ), he had to sign an agreement at the end of 2016 after a ruling by the Association Arbitration Court, according to which he had the Athletics does not use the platform to spread his mindset. In July 2018, Swiss Athletics excluded Mancini from the 2018 European Championship and revoked his license. Mancini had spread right-wing extremist content on Facebook and on his official fan website, thereby violating the agreement with the association.

Personal best

  • 100-meter run : 10.28 s, June 9, 2014 in Basel
  • 200-meter run : 21.18 s, May 24, 2010 in Zofingen
  • 60-meter run (hall): 6.61 s, March 5, 2011 in Paris , Swiss U23 record
    • 60-meter run (hall): 6.78 s, February 9, 2008 in Magglingen, Swiss junior record
    • 60-meter run (hall): 6.79 s, February 25, 2006 in Magglingen, Swiss U18 record
  • 50-meter run (hall): 5.86 s, January 17, 2010 in Aigle , Swiss U23 best

Web links

Commons : Pascal Mancini  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.sport.sf.tv/Nachrichten/Archiv/2011/12/19/Leichtathletik/Rekord-der-Schweizer-Maenner-Staffel-ist-ungueltig
  2. ↑ http://www.sport.sf.tv/Nachrichten/Archiv/2012/01/25/Leichtathletik/Sprinter-Pascal-Mancini-positiv-getestet2
  3. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Pascal Mancini banned for two years , article from July 13, 2012
  4. ↑ List of athletes banned by the IAAF , as of July 8, 2015 (PDF, English)
  5. ↑ Racist Facebook posts: Sprinter Mancini before the European Championship ?. In: bluewin.ch from July 31, 2018.
  6. ↑ Monica Schneider: Association excludes Mancini from the EM. In: Der Bund , July 31, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Mancini, Pascal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss athlete
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Friborg