Alessia Trost

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

Trost at 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Personal information
Nationality	Italian
Born	(1993-03-08) 8 March 1993 (age 32) Pordenone, Italy
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Country	Italy
Sport	Athletics
Event	High jump
Club	G.S. Fiamme Gialle
Coached by	Gianfranco 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 2018 Birmingham High jump European Indoor Championships 2015 Prague High jump European Team Championships 2013 Gateshead High jump 2021 Silesia High jump 2017 Lille High jump 2019 Bydgoszcz High jump World Junior Championships 2012 Barcelona High jump World Youth Championships 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

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

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

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

• Italian Athletics Championships
  • High jump: 2013, 2014, 2016, 2019 (4)
• Italian Athletics Indoor Championships
  • High jump: 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021 (5)

See also

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