Italian high jumper
Alessia Trost
Nationality Italian Born (1993-03-08 ) 8 March 1993 (age 31) Pordenone , Italy Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) Weight 68 kg (150 lb) Country Italy Sport Athletics Event High jump Club G.S. Fiamme Gialle Coached by Gianfranco Chessa Personal bests
H. jump indoor: 2.00 m (2013)
H. jump outdoor: 1.98 m (2013)
Alessia Trost (born 8 March 1993) is an Italian female high jumper . She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in High jump .[ 1]
She won the 2009 World Youth Championship in Athletics in Bressanone . She was the bronze medallist at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships .
Biography
Trost also won the Italian Youth Championship in 2008.[ 2] 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 2.01 m), with 1.98 m in Udine , Italy .[ 3] Nine days later she became the third Italian woman to jump 2.00m,[ 4] and 2013 World Leader.[ 5] On 26 February 2012 she won the title of the European Athletic Association , European Athletes of the Month for January.[ 6]
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
Year
Competition
Venue
Position
Notes
2009
World Youth Championships
Brixen, Italy
1st
1.87 m PB
European Youth Olympic Festival
Tampere, Finland
1st
1.85 m
2010
Youth Olympic Games
Singapore
2nd
1.86 m
2011
European Junior Championships
Tallinn, Estonia
4th
1.85 m
2012
World Junior Championships
Barcelona, Spain
1st
1.91 m
2013
European Indoor Championships
Gothenburg, Sweden
4th
1.92 m
European Team Championships
Gateshead , United Kingdom
2nd
1.92 m [ 7]
European U23 Championships
Tampere, Finland
1st
1.98 m CR
World Championships
Moscow, Russia
7th
1.93 m
2015
European Indoor Championships
Prague, Czech Republic
2nd
1.97 m
European U23 Championships
Tallinn, Estonia
1st
1.90 m
2016
World Indoor Championships
Portland, United States
7th
1.93 m
European Championships
Amsterdam , Netherlands
5th
1.89 m
Olympic Games
Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
5th
1.93 m
2017
European Team Championships
Lille, France
3rd
1.94 m
World Championships
London, United Kingdom
1.89 m
2018
World Indoor Championships
Birmingham, United Kingdom
3rd
1.93 m SB
European Championships
Berlin, Germany
8th
1.91 m
2019
European Indoor Championships
Glasgow, United Kingdom
18th (q)
1.85 m
World Championships
Doha, Qatar
14th (q)
1.92 m
2021
European Indoor Championships
Toruń, Poland
6th
1.92 m
Olympic Games
Tokyo, Japan
20th (q)
1.90 m
National titles
Trost won nine national championships at individual senior level.[ 8]
See also
References
External links
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