José Alessandro Bagio

{{short description|Brazilian racewalker}}

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| birth_place = Orleans, Santa Catarina, Brazil

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| pb = 20 km walk: 1:21:43 (2008)

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{{MedalGold |2008 Iquique|20,000 m walk}}

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José Alessandro Bernardo Bagio (born 16 April 1981 in Orleans, Santa Catarina) is a Brazilian race walker.{{cite Sports-Reference |title=José Alessandro Bagio |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/jose-alessandro-baggio-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161202214851/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/jose-alessandro-baggio-1.html |archive-date=2 December 2016 |access-date=15 December 2012}} 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.{{cite web|title=Men's 20km Race Walk |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc=ATM092100/standings.html |publisher=NBC Olympics |accessdate=15 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140105155848/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DATM092100/standings.html |archivedate= 5 January 2014 }}

On March 31, 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.{{cite news|title=Brazilian race walker suspended 2 years for doping|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2011-03-31-3292320525_x.htm|publisher=USA Today|date=31 March 2011|accessdate=15 December 2012}}