Alessia Trost (born 8 March 1993) is an Italian female high jumper. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in High jump.[1]

Alessia Trost
Personal information
NationalityItalian
Born (1993-03-08) 8 March 1993 (age 31)
Pordenone, Italy
Height1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
CountryItaly Italy
SportAthletics
EventHigh jump
ClubG.S. Fiamme Gialle
Coached byGianfranco Chessa
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • H. jump indoor: 2.00 m (2013)
  • H. jump outdoor: 1.98 m (2013)
Medal record
International podiums
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
World Indoor Championships 0 0 1
European Indoor Championships 0 1 0
European U23 Championships 2 0 0
European Team Championships 0 2 2
Total 2 3 3
World Indoor Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Birmingham High jump
European Indoor Championships
Silver medal – second place 2015 Prague High jump
European Team Championships
Silver medal – second place 2013 Gateshead High jump
Silver medal – second place 2021 Silesia High jump
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Lille High jump
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Bydgoszcz High jump
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Barcelona High jump
World Youth Championships
Gold medal – first place 2009 Brixen High jump

She won the 2009 World Youth Championship in Athletics in Bressanone. She was the bronze medallist at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships.

Biography

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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

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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 Qual. 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

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Trost won nine national championships at individual senior level.[8]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Athletics - TROST Alessia". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2021-10-05. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
  2. ^ From Iaaf website
  3. ^ "Trost boom 1,98 ad Udine" (in Italian). fidal.it. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  4. ^ "Trost 2 metri nella storia" (in Italian). fidal.it. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  5. ^ "TROST CRACKS TWO METRES IN TRINEC AS BARSHIM IMPROVES WORLD LEAD". iaaf.org. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  6. ^ "Lavillenie and Trost voted European Athletes of the Month for January". european-athletics.orgeuropean-athletics.org. Archived from the original on 2012-02-07. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
  7. ^ "2013 European Team Championships2013 European Team Championships - Results". EAA. Archived from the original on 26 June 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  8. ^ "TUTTE LE CAMPIONESSE ITALIANE – 1923/2020" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. 1 January 2021. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
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