Salome Lang (born 18 November 1997) is a Swiss athlete who competes in the

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Career

From

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where she is coached by Alan Wisslé, she studied business administration at the

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. Lang gained her first international experience at the

2013 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival The 2013 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival was held in Utrecht, Netherlands, between 14 and 19 July 2013. Sports There were contested nine sports: Venues Schedule The competition schedule for the 2017 European Youth Olympic Summer Fest ...

(EYOF) in

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where she finished in seventh place with a jump of 1.72m. The following year she competed at the

2014 Summer Youth Olympics The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics (), officially known as the II Summer Youth Olympic Games , and commonly known as Nanjing 2014 ( zh, c=南京2014, p=Nánjīng Èr Líng yī sì), were the second Summer Youth Olympic Games, an international sports ...

where she reached fifth place with 1.73m jump. She took part in the

2015 European Athletics Junior Championships The 2015 European Athletics Junior Championships were the 23rd edition of the biennial European U20 athletics championships. They were held in Eskilstuna, Sweden from 16 July to 19 July. The medal table was topped by Great Britain with 17 medals ...

in Eskilstuna and finished 7th with a jump of 1.79m. She also finished 7th at the

2016 IAAF World U20 Championships The 2016 World U20 Championships in Athletics was an international athletics competition for athletes qualifying as juniors (born no earlier than 1 January 1997) which was held at Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium in Bydgoszcz, Poland on 19–24 Ju ...

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with a height of 1.83m. She came fourth at the

2017 European Athletics U23 Championships The 2017 European Athletics U23 Championships were the 11th edition of the biennial athletics competition between European athletes under the age of twenty-three. It was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland from 13 to 16 July. This was the second time that t ...

again in Bydgoszcz with a jump of 1.86m. In 2020 she set a new Swiss indoor record with 1.94 m in St. Gallen which placed her joint 8th worldwide for the year. Lang has won multiple national titles; in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020, Lang was Swiss champion in the high jump outdoors, and in 2016 and from 2019, 2020, and 2021 also indoors. On 20 June 2021 Lang cleared an Olympic qualifying standard and Swiss record of 1.96m, breaking by one centimeter the record held by

Sieglinde Cadusch Sieglinde Cadusch (born 28 August 1967) is a retired Swiss high jumper. She competed at the 1992 Olympic Games, 1994 European Championships, the 1995 World Championships and the 1996 Olympic Games as well as the World Indoor Championships in ...

since 1995, at the European Team Championships First League in

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. This secured her place at the delayed

2020 Tokyo Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...

. She was selected for the

2024 European Athletics Championships The 26th European Athletics Championships will be held from 7 to 12 June 2024 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy. It will be the third time Italy has staged this sporting the event after the inaugural 1934 edition in Turin, for men only, and t ...

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in June 2024.

References

1997 births Living people Swiss female high jumpers Sportspeople from Basel-Stadt Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Switzerland 21st-century Swiss women European Games competitors for Switzerland Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games {{Switzerland-athletics-bio-stub