Yohanes Chiappinelli

Yohanes Chiappinelli
Yohanes Chiappinelli (very front) at the European Championships 2018
Full name	Yohanes Chiappinelli
nation	Italy
birthday	18th August 1997 (age 23)
place of birth	Addis Ababa ,  Ethiopia
size	171 cm
Weight	55 kg
Career
discipline	3000 meters obstacle
Best performance	8: 24.26 min
society	Centro Sportivo Carabinieri
Trainer	Maurizio Cito
status	active
Medal table
European championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Mediterranean Games 0 × 0 × 1 × U23 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
European championships bronze Berlin 2018 3000 m obstacle  Mediterranean Games bronze Tarragona 2018 3000 m obstacle  U23 European Championships gold Bydgoszcz 2017 3000 m obstacle  U20 European Championships gold Eskilstuna 2015 3000 m obstacle
last change: May 3, 2020

Yohanes Chiappinelli (born August 18, 1997 in Addis Ababa ) is an Italian athlete of Ethiopian origin who specializes in the obstacle course . In 2018 he won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Berlin .

Athletic career

Yohanes Chiappinelli comes from a village near the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. At the age of seven he was adopted by an Italian professorial couple from the city of Siena after living in an orphanage for a year. At first he tried swimming and basketball, which he had to give up due to an injury. In 2008 he started athletics. In the spring of 2013 he took part in the U20 race in the Cross Country World Championships in Bydgoszcz, where he finished 44th. In the summer he competed at the U18 World Championships in Donetsk over 3000 meters. He moved into the final, in which he finished tenth. In autumn he competed in the Italian U18 championships over 1500 and 3000 meters. He took 4th place over the 1500 meters and won the gold medal over 3000 meters.

In 2014 he started in the obstacle course at the national youth championships, where he won over 2000 meters. A month later he competed in the 3000-meter obstacle course at the U20 World Championships in the older age group. In the run-up he reached the finish in fourth place, with which he made it to the final and there two days later, with a new best performance, took sixth place. After finishing 44th in the last World Cross Country Championships, he finished in Guiyang in 2015 as 33rd in the U20 race. In June he became the Italian U20 obstacle course champion and a month later he also competed at the U20 European Championships in Eskilstuna, Sweden. In the final he won the gold medal with a winning time of 8: 47.58 minutes. In 2016 Chiappinelli started at the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. In the final, he set a personal best in 8: 32.66 minutes, which meant fifth place at the finish. In the summer of 2017, again in Bydgoszcz, he took part in the U23 European Championships , where he won the gold medal. In August he failed as tenth of his heats at the World Championships in London to advance to the next round and ended up in 30th place in the total of all heats.

In June 2018, Chiappinelli competed at the Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, Spain, where he won the bronze medal. He won the same medal two months later at the European Championships in Berlin and celebrated his greatest sporting success to date. A year later he retired at the World Championships in Doha as eighth of his heat. He had previously set his best performance of 8: 24.26 minutes in Rome in June. In December he finished fifth in the U23 race of the European Cross Country Championships in Lisbon.

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	time
Starts for Italy
2013	World Cross Country Championships	Bydgoszcz	44.	U20 race	23:33 min
	U18 world championships	Ukraine	10.	3000 m	8: 27.76 min
2014	U20 world championships	Eugene	6th	3000 m obstacle	8: 43.18 min
2015	World Cross Country Championships	Guiyang	33.	U20 race	25:44 min
	U20 European Championships	Eskilstuna	1.	3000 m obstacle	8: 47.58 min
2016	U20 world championships	Bydgoszcz	5.	3000 m obstacle	8: 32.66 min
2017	U23 European Championships	Bydgoszcz	1.	3000 m obstacle	8: 34.33 min
	World championships	London	30th	3000 m obstacle	8: 36.48 min
2018	Mediterranean Games	Tarragona	3.	3000 m obstacle	8: 32.06 min
	European championships	Berlin	3.	3000 m obstacle	8: 35.81 min
2019	World championships	Doha	19th	3000 m obstacle	8: 24.73 min
	European Cross Country Championships	Lisbon	5.	U23 race	24:51 min

Others

Chiappinelli lives and trains in Siena. He attended a music college where he studied piano and clarinet. He then took up a degree in communication sciences . He is a fan of AS Roma .

Personal best

open air

• 3000 m : 8: 03.44 min, September 10, 2019, Scandiano
• 3000 m obstacle : 8: 24.26 min, June 6, 2019, Rome

Hall

• 3000 m: 8: 10.27 min, February 19, 2017, Ancona

Web links

• Yohanes Chiappinelli in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Yohanes Chiappinelli in the database of European Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ FIDAL profile
2. ↑ Chiara Pizzimenti: Yohanes Chiappinelli: "Chi fa sport non può essere razzista" ( Italian ) March 23, 2019. Accessed May 3, 2020.