Alessia Trost

Alessia Trost

Personal information
Nationality Italian
Born 8 March 1993
Pordenone, Italy
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Country Italy Italy
Sport Athletics
Event(s) High jump
Club G.S. Fiamme Gialle
Coached by Gianfranco Chessa
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
  • 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 that has won the 2009 World Youth Championship in Athletics in Brixen.

Biography

Trost has also won the Italian Youth Championship in 2008.[1] At the first Youth Olympics 2010 she won a silver medal clearing 1.86 meters, to finish only second to 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 after she became third Italian woman to jumps 2.00 m,[3] and 2013 World Leader.[4] On 26 February 2012 won the title of the European Athletic Association, European Athletes of the Month for January.[5]

In August, at her first participation at the World Championships, 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 Event Measure Notes
Representing  Italy
2009 World Youth Championships Brixen 1st High jump 1.87 m
2010 Youth Olympic Games Singapore 2nd High jump 1.86 m
2011 European Junior Championships Tallinn 4th High jump 1.85 m
2012 World Junior Championships Barcelona 1st High jump 1.91 m
2013 European Indoor Championships Gothenburg 4th High jump 1.92 m
European Team Championships Gateshead 2nd High jump 1.92 m [6]
European U23 Championships Tampere 1st High jump 1.98 m
World Championships Moscow 7th High jump 1.93 m
2015 European Indoor Championships Prague 2nd High jump 1.97 m

National championships

She won two senior individual national championship.[7]

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. Retrieved February 2012.
  6. "2013 European Team Championships2013 European Team Championships - Results". EAA. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
  7. ""CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" ITALIANE SUL PODIO TRICOLORE – 1923 2012" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 17 February 2013.

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