Kelly Doualla won 100m gold at the Tampere European Athletics U20 Championships

Italian athlete Kelly Doualla won the European Under-20 100m title in a landslide at the Tampere European Athletics U20 Championships. The 15-year-old athletics talent, who is of Cameroonian parents and was born in Italy, clocked 11.22 sec (-0.1 m/s) to win the gold medal.

Mabel Akande (Great Britain) took silver in 11.41 sec, while Ukraine’s Uliana Stepaniuk was third in 11.53 sec.

Kelly Doualla also won gold in the 100m at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Skopje earlier in the season.

Kelly Ann Maevane Doualla Edimo is a sprinter from Italy. In 2025, she established new European U18 record times for both the 60m and 100m.