Bastien Augusto

Bastien Augusto (born 10 August 1999) is a French middle-distance runner.[1] In 2022, Augusto improved his showings at both the French and 2022 European Cross Country Championships, this time placing 6th individually in the senior race to lead the other French scorers Yann Schrub and Morhad Amdouni to a gold medal.Bastien was not expected to lead the French team, as Jimmy Gressier said in Ouest-France (in French), "Everyone was talking about Yann (Schrub) or Morhad (Amdouni) for the victory or at least the place of best Frenchman, I knew that we had to watch Bastien.[2] At his third European Cross Country showing in 2023, Augusto only finished 52nd but nonetheless his French team won a senior silver medal.[1][4] In March 2024, Augusto moved to the United States to train for the 2024 Olympic Games.