Franck Brice Koua (born 21 September 2001) is an Italian hurdler. Born and raised in the Milanese hinterland of Magenta (Mi), from parents from the Ivory Coast. After playing football he became passionate about athletics at school, thanks to a high jump lesson that at first became his specialty (personal of 2.04), without disdaining long and triple training with Fiorella Colombo in Bienate di Magnago (Milan), not far from Malpensa airport. Then a parenthesis in France where the family moved from the second half of 2017, to Villefranche-sur-Saône, followed by coach Pierre Berlier. As a student he tried the decathlon, so above all the obstacles with the call in blue for the U20 European Championships in 2019 and the choice to return to Italy alone, to stabilize himself with a relative in Van