Pascale Stöcklin (born 5 February 1997) is a Swiss pole vaulter.

Career

She won her first senior medal with a silver in the

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at the 2017 Swiss Indoor Championships behind

Angelica Moser Angelica Moser (born 9 October 1997) is a Swiss pole vaulter. She won the 2021 European Championships in Toruń, and placed fourth at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Her personal bests in the event are 4.88 metres outdoors (Monaco 2024) and 4.80 met ...

in February 2017. She won gold at the

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. She competed at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in

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in the pole vault. In June 2024, she increased her personal best to 4.50 metres. She competed at the

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, where she qualified for the final and finished in twelfth place overall. She subsequently competed in the pole vault at the

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Personal life

She is from the canton of

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and her home club is the LAS Old Boys Basel. She studies medicine at the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stöcklin, Pascale 1997 births Living people Swiss female pole vaulters Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Switzerland 21st-century Swiss sportswomen Athletes from Basel-Stadt University of Basel alumni