José Alessandro Bagio

José Alessandro Bernardo Bagio (born 16 April 1981) is a Brazilian race walker. He won the gold medal for the 20,000 metres walk at the 2008 Ibero-American Championships in Iquique, Chile, with a time of 1:23:12.6.

Bagio made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed fourteenth in the men's 20 km race walk, with a time of 1:23:33. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Bagio repeated his position from Athens in the same event, with a well-improved, seasonal best time of 1:21:43, finishing behind Spain's Benjamin Sánchez by five seconds.

On 31 March 2011, Bagio was tested positive for the steroid called 19-Norandrosterone, during a national race walking competition in Brazil, a year before. He served a two-year suspension by IAAF, making him ineligible to compete for the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, and most importantly, for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Personal bests Track walk 10,000 m: 39:32.0 min (ht) – Blumenau, Brazil, 31 August 2008 20,000 m: 1:21:37.9 hrs (ht) – Itajaí, Brazil, 15 May 2004

Road walk 20 km: 1:21:43 hrs – Beijing, China, 16 August 2008

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