Ajla Del Ponte (born 15 July 1996) is a Swiss
sprinter. She competed in the
women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the
2016 Summer Olympics and at the
2017 World Championships in
London
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. She won the
women's 60 metres at the
2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships, doing so in a world leading time and equaling the
Swiss record of 7.03 seconds. At the
2020 Summer Olympics
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she set a new national record for the
100 metres
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running 10.91 in the heats. On 14 August, she shaved a hundredth of a second off of her record, achieving a time of 10.90 at the 2021 Resisprint International.
International competitions
Personal life
Her mother, Senada Položanin, was born in
Jajce,
SR Bosnia and Herzegovina
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,
SFR Yugoslavia, where she worked as a doctor until the
Bosnian War broke out.
Her father, Claudio Del Ponte, is a cousin of war crimes prosecutor for the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia,
Carla Del Ponte
Carla Del Ponte (born February 9, 1947) is a former Chief Prosecutor of two United Nations international criminal law tribunals. A former Swiss attorney general, she was appointed prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former ...
.
See also
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2020/21 in 60 metres
References
External links
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1996 births
Living people
Swiss female sprinters
Swiss people of Bosnia and Herzegovina descent
People from Locarno
Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Switzerland
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Switzerland
Medalists at the 2019 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade
European Athletics Indoor Championships winners
Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic female sprinters
Sportspeople from Ticino
21st-century Swiss women