OSSOLA Alessandro

Italy
Athletics
23 Nov 1987
33
Male
T63
GRUGLIASCO
 
Italy

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
ATH Athletics Men's 100m - T63 6

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Olympic Stadium - Track
Men's 100m - T63 Round 1 - Heat 2
Finished
Olympic Stadium - Track
Men's 100m - T63 Final
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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RankEventYearLocationResult
European Championships
3100m - T632021Bydgoszcz, POL12.65
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Aleo (Facebook profile, 14 Jan 2019)
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Travel, golf. (Facebook page, 26 Jan 2019)
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Athlete
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Italian
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GS Fiamme Azzurre [ITA] / GSH Sempione [ITA]
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Chiara Ansaldi [personal]
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He played semi-professional futsal before his accident. Following his amputation he took up golf and has competed in tournaments for people with an impairment in Italy. (alessandroossola.com, 14 Jan 2019; Facebook profile, 01 Jan 2019)
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After losing his leg, he took up golf and snowboarding before focusing on Para athletics. (redattoresociale.it, 28 Dec 2020)
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To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (ilfaroonline.it, 12 Feb 2021)
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"After a difficult period I found the motivation and the objectives to go on. Now, with every activity that I do I try to help people with or without an impairment not to give up." (alessandroossola.com, 14 Jan 2019)

General Interest

Classification
T63 (IPC, 28 Jul 2021)

Type of Impairment
Limb deficiency (alessandroossola.com, 14 Jan 2019)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (sponsor.me, 2017)

Impairment Details
His left leg was amputated after he was involved in a motorbike accident in 2015. His wife Federica died in the incident. "In one stroke I lost my leg and my wife. I had to choose between living or dying. I chose to live." (alessandroossola.com, 14 Jan 2019; giornaledimontesilvano.com, 21 Aug 2018; sponsor.me, 2017)

General
FOUNDATION
In June 2019 he launched the 'Bionic People' foundation alongside former Miss Italy participant Chiara Bordi and his friend Riccardo Cottili. "The goal [of the scheme] is to make people aware of what can be done and what cannot after an accident. [In 2020] we had 6500 students involved to realise the reality of impaired people. I think there's still so much to be learnt. For example, not many people know how prosthetics work. Our goal is to inform using our own experiences." (bionicpeople.it, 01 Jan 2021; alessandroossola.com, 01 Jan 2021; redattoresociale.it, 28 Dec 2020; piemontetopnews.it, 09 Feb 2020)

OTHER ROLES
He has worked in fashion shows as a model. "After the accident I was invited to walk on the catwalk with my prosthetics as a message of inclusion. It went very fast, in a short time I was taking part in shows in Turin and even Paris." (piemontetopnews.it, 09 Feb 2020)

Legend
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