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Angelina Topić
Serbian high jumper (born 2005) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Angelina Topić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ангелина Топић; born 26 July 2005) is a Serbian athlete specializing in the high jump. At the age of 17, she won the bronze medal at the 2022 European Athletics Championships, becoming the youngest medallist of the entire championships.[1] The same year, Topić earned also bronze at the World Under-20 Championships.
She is the current Serbian record holder for the high jump indoors and out, and also holds joint world U18 best outdoors.[2]
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Background
Angelina Topić's mother is Biljana Topić, the Serbian triple jump record holder, who was fourth in the event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. Her coach is her father Dragutin Topić, the Serbian high jump record holder and European high jump champion, a title he won as a teenager in 1990.[3]
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In her breakthrough 2022 season in June, still only 16, Topić set a national senior high jump record of 1.96 m at the Serbian Championships in Kruševac, equalling the world under-18 best.[4] The following month, she won the high jump event at the European Under-18 Championships in Jerusalem with a leap of 1.92 m. In August, she went on to take the bronze medal at the World U20 Championships held in Cali, Colombia, clearing 1.93 m. At her first major senior competition the same month, Topić earned bronze at the Munich European Championships with a jump of 1.93 m, becoming the youngest medallist of the entire championships.[5][6] She also set national records at U18 & U20 levels in the pentathlon that year.[1]
In January 2023, she broke the Serbian indoor high jump record (previously held by Ivana Španović) with a leap of 1.94 m at a meeting in Belgrade.[7][8]
During 2024 Paris Olympics Angelina fractured her right ankle during warm-up for the qualifying session. Injured, she still qualified, but later had to withdraw from the high jump final.[9]
In August 2024, less than a month after the injury, Angelina won the gold medal at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships.[10]
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International competitions
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Personal bests
National titles
- Serbian Athletics Championships: 2021, 2022
- Serbian Indoor Athletics Championships: 2021
Seasonal bests by year
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- 2018 – 1.60
- 2019 – 1.71
- 2020 – 1.81
- 2021 – 1.88
- 2022 – 1.96
- 2023 – 1.97
- 2024 – 1.98
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Awards
- 2022
- Piotr Nurowski Best Summer European Young Athlete Prize[6]
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