Alessia Trost

Alessia Trost

Alessia Trost at 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
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
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)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Italy European Indoor Championships 2015 Prague High jump European U23 Championships 2013 Tampere High jump 2015 Tallinn High jump European Team Championships 2013 Gateshead High jump Youth Olympic Games 2010 Singapore High jump World Youth Championships 2009 Brixen High jump World Junior Championships 2012 Barcelona High jump

Alessia Trost (born 8 March 1993) is an Italian female high jumper who won the 2009 World Youth Championship in Athletics in Brixen.

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 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 appearance 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	Measure	Notes
Representing  Italy
2009	World Youth Championships	Brixen, Italy	1st	1.87 m
	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
	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	5th	1.93 m

National championships

She won two senior individual national championship.^[7]

• 1 win in the high jump (2013)
• 1 win in the high jump indoor (2013)

See also

• Female two metres club
• Italian all-time top lists - High jump

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.

External links

• Alessia Trost profile at IAAF
• FIDAL profile for Alessia Trost