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. She was the bronze medallist at the
2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships
The 17th IAAF World Indoor Championships was held from 1 to 4 March 2018 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. This was the city's second hosting of the event as it previously did so in 2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships, 2003.
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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.
On 20 January 2013 she set her personal best, third
Italian best measure of all-time (after two female Italian champions,
Antonietta Di Martino 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 ...
2.01 m), with 1.98 m in
Udine
Udine ( ; ; ; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in northeastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Carnic Alps. It is the capital of the Province of Udine, Regional decentralization entity ...
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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 () are the national championships in Athletics (sport), athletics, organised every year by the Federazione Italiana di Atletica Leggera.
The first edition, four races only, was held in 1906 at Arena Civica in ...
**High jump: 2013, 2014,
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
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2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
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Italian Athletics Indoor Championships
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**High jump: 2013, 2014, 2016,
2018
Events January
* January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency.
* January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
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2021
Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
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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
Sportspeople from Pordenone
Athletes from Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Italian female high jumpers
Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for 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
21st-century Italian sportswomen