Alessia Trost

Alessia Trost (born 8 March 1993) is an Italian female high jumper who won the 2009 World Youth Championship in Athletics in Brixen. She was the bronze medallist at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships.

Alessia Trost
Personal information
NationalityItalian
Born (1993-03-08) 8 March 1993
Pordenone, Italy
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Country Italy
SportAthletics
Event(s)High jump
ClubG.S. Fiamme Gialle
Coached byGianfranco Chessa
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
  • 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 1 2
Total 2 2 3
World Indoor Championships
2018 BirminghamHigh jump
European Indoor Championships
2015 PragueHigh jump
European Team Championships
2013 GatesheadHigh jump
2017 LilleHigh jump
2019 BydgoszczHigh jump
World Junior Championships
2012 BarcelonaHigh jump
World Youth Championships
2009 BrixenHigh jump

Biography

Trost also won the Italian Youth Championship in 2008.[1] 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.[2] Nine days later she became the third Italian woman to jump 2.00m,[3] and 2013 World Leader.[4] On 26 February 2012 she won the title of the European Athletic Association, European Athletes of the Month for January.[5]

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 Trabzon, Turkey 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[6]
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

National titles

She won seven senior individual Italian Athletics Championships.[7]

  • 3 wins in the high jump (2013, 2014, 2016)
  • 4 wins in the high jump indoor (2013, 2014, 2016, 2018)

See also

References
  1. From Iaaf website
  2. "Trost boom 1,98 ad Udine" (in Italian). fidal.it. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  3. "Trost 2 metri nella storia" (in Italian). fidal.it. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  4. "TROST CRACKS TWO METRES IN TRINEC AS BARSHIM IMPROVES WORLD LEAD". iaaf.org. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  5. "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.
  6. "2013 European Team Championships2013 European Team Championships - Results". EAA. Archived from the original on 26 June 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  7. ""CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" ITALIANE SUL PODIO TRICOLORE – 1923 2012" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
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