Wilfried Happio

Wilfried Happio
nation	France
birthday	22nd September 1998 (age 21)
place of birth	Bourg-la-Reine , France
size	187 cm
Career
discipline	400 meter hurdles
Best performance	49.03 s
society	CA L'Haÿ-les-Roses
Trainer	Tony Renia
status	active
Medal table
U23 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 European Championships 1 × 1 × 0 ×
U23 European Championships gold Gävle 2019 400 m hurdles  U20 European Championships gold Grosseto 2017 400 m hurdles silver Grosseto 2017 4 × 400 m
last change: May 28, 2020

Wilfried Happio (born September 22, 1998 in Bourg-la-Reine ) is a French hurdler who specializes in the 400-meter distance .

Athletic career and life

Wilfried Happio gained his first international experience in 2015 when he retired from the youth world championships in Cali with 53.42 seconds in the semi-finals and retired with the French mixed relay with 3: 34.74 minutes in the preliminary run. In 2017 he won the U20 European Championships in Grosseto 49.93 s and won the silver medal in the 4 x 400 meter relay in 3: 09.04 min. The following year he won the silver medal at the U23 Mediterranean Championships in Jesolo in 50.65 s and had to admit defeat to the Italian Matteo Beria . At the IAAF World Relays 2019 in Yokohama , he retired with the mixed relay with 3: 18.93 min in the preliminary round and then he won the U23 European Championships in Gävle in 49.03 seconds. He qualified for the World Championships in Doha , where he was eliminated with 51.25 s in the first round .

In 2019 , Happio became the French champion in the 400-meter hurdles.

Personal best

• 400 m hurdles: 49.03 s, July 14, 2019 in Gävle

Web links

• Wilfried Happio in the database of World Athletics (English)