Alessia Trost


Alessia Trost is an Italian female high jumper who won the 2009 World Youth Championship in Athletics in Brixen. She was the bronze medallist at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships.

Biography

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, 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 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

National titles

She won seven senior individual Italian Athletics Championships.