Alessia Trost (born 8 March 1993) is an Italian female
high jump
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er. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in
High jump
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.
She won the
2009 World Youth Championship in Athletics in
Bressanone
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Geography
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. She was the bronze medallist at the
2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships
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Bidding process
Birmingham bid for the 2016 IAAF World Indo ...
.
Biography
Trost also won the Italian Youth Championship in 2008. At the first
Youth Olympics 2010 she won a silver medal clearing 1.86 metres, to finish second behind Russia′s
Mariya Kuchina
Mariya Aleksandrovna Lasitskene (russian: Мария Александровна Ласицкене, ; ; born 14 January 1993) is a Russian Sport of athletics, athlete who specialises in the high jump. She is the Athletics at the 2020 Summer Oly ...
.
On 20 January 2013 she set her personal best, third
Italian best measure of all-time (after two female Italian champions,
Antonietta Di Martino
Antonietta Di Martino (born 1 June 1978) is a retired Italian high jumper. She currently holds the Italian national women's high jump record at 2.03 metres for outdoor events and 2.04 metres for indoor events. She also currently holds the women' ...
2.04 m and
Sara Simeoni
Sara Simeoni (born 19 April 1953) is an Italian former high jumper, who won a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics and twice set a world record in the women's high jump.
Biography
Sara Simeoni was born in Rivoli Veronese, in the province of V ...
2.01 m), with 1.98 m in
Udine
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,
Italy
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. Nine days later she became the third Italian woman to jump 2.00m, and 2013 World Leader. On 26 February 2012 she won the title of the
European Athletic Association
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, ''European Athletes of the Month'' for January.
In August, at her first appearance at the
World Championships in 2013, Trost jumped 1.93 m in the
high jump final without making errors, but then failed to jump 1.97 m and finished 7th.
Achievements
National titles
Trost won nine national championships at individual
senior
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level.
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Italian Athletics Championships
The Italian Athletics Championships ( it, Campionati italiani assoluti di atletica leggera) are the national championships in athletics, organised every year by the Federazione Italiana di Atletica Leggera.
The first edition, four races only, wa ...
**High jump: 2013, 2014,
2016
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2019
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Italian Athletics Indoor Championships
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**High jump: 2013, 2014, 2016,
2018
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2021
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See also
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Female two metres club
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Italian all-time top lists - High jump
References
External links
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1993 births
Living people
People from Pordenone
Italian female high jumpers
Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes of Italy
World Athletics Championships athletes for Italy
Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
Athletics competitors of Fiamme Gialle
Italian Athletics Championships winners
Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Friuli-Venezia Giulia
21st-century Italian women