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Alessia Trost

Alessia Trost
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Personal information
Nationality Italian
Born (1993-03-08) 8 March 1993 (age 23)
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 in Pordenone) is an Italian female high jumper who won the 2009 World Youth Championship in Athletics in Brixen.

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

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.

She won two senior individual national championship.


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