Angelina Topić ( sr-Cyrl, Ангелина Топић; born 26 July 2005) is a

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n athlete specializing in the

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. At the age of 17, she won the bronze medal at the

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, becoming the youngest medallist of the entire championships. The same year, Topić earned also bronze at the World Under-20 Championships. She is the current Serbian record holder for the high jump indoors and out, and also holds joint world U18 best outdoors.

Background

Angelina Topić's mother is Biljana Topić, the Serbian

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record holder, who was fourth in the event at the

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. Her coach is her father

Dragutin Topić Dragutin Topić ( sr-cyr, Драгутин Топић, born 12 March 1971) is a retired Serbian high jumper, former European champion and world junior record holder. Biography Topić is a world junior record holder with 2.37 m, which he set whi ...

, the Serbian

record holder and European high jump champion, a title he won as a teenager in

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Career

In her breakthrough 2022 season in June, still only 16, Topić set a national senior high jump record of 1.96 m at the Serbian Championships in

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, equalling the world under-18 best. The following month, she won the high jump event at the European Under-18 Championships in

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with a leap of 1.92 m. In August, she went on to take the bronze medal at the World U20 Championships held in

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, Colombia, clearing 1.93 m. At her first major senior competition the same month, Topić earned bronze at the Munich European Championships with a jump of 1.93 m, becoming the youngest medallist of the entire championships. She also set national records at U18 & U20 levels in the

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that year. In January 2023, she broke the Serbian indoor high jump record (previously held by

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) with a leap of 1.94 m at a meeting in

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. During

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Angelina fractured her right ankle during warm-up for the qualifying session. Injured, she still qualified, but later had to withdraw from the high jump final. In August 2024, less than a month after the injury, Angelina won the gold medal at the

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Achievements

International competitions

¹Did not start in the final.

Personal bests

National titles

* Serbian Athletics Championships: 2021, 2022 * Serbian Indoor Athletics Championships: 2021

Seasonal bests by year

*2018 – 1.60 *2019 – 1.71 *2020 – 1.81 *2021 – 1.88 *2022 – 1.96 *2023 – 1.97 *2024 – 1.98

Awards

;2022 * Piotr Nurowski Best Summer European Young Athlete Prize

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Topic, Angelina 2005 births Living people Athletes from Belgrade Serbian female high jumpers European Athletics Championships medalists European Games competitors for Serbia Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games 21st-century Serbian sportswomen Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Serbia Diamond League winners