Ajla Del Ponte

Ajla Del Ponte
	Ajla Del Ponte in 2020
Personal information
Nationality	Swiss
Born	15 July 1996 (age 28); Locarno, Switzerland
Sport
Country	Switzerland
Sport	Track and field
Event	Sprints
Coached by	Laurent Meuwly
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	100 m: 10.90 (2021); 60 m: 7.03 (2021);
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Switzerland
European Indoor Championships

Ajla Del Ponte (born 15 July 1996) is a Swiss sprinter. She competed in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 2016 Summer Olympics^[2] and at the 2017 World Championships in London.^[3] She won the women's 60 metres at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships, doing so in a world leading time and equaling the Swiss record of 7.03 seconds.^[4] At the 2020 Summer Olympics she set a new national record for the 100 metres running 10.91 in the heats.^[5] On 14 August, she shaved a hundredth of a second off of her record, achieving a time of 10.90 at the 2021 Resisprint International.^[6]^[7]

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Switzerland
2014	World Junior Championships	Eugene, United States	37th (h)	100 m	11.99
2014	World Junior Championships	Eugene, United States	5th	4 × 100 m relay	45.02
2015	European Junior Championships	Eskilstuna, Sweden	19th (h)	200 m	24.64
2016	European Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	5th	4 × 100 m relay	43.00
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	11th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	43.02
2017	European Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	13th (sf)	60 m	7.39
	European U23 Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	5th	100 m	11.66
	European U23 Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	3rd	4 × 100 m relay	44.07
	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	5th	4 × 100 m relay	42.51
2018	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	23rd (sf)	60 m	7.40
	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	17th (sf)	100 m	11.38
	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	4th	4 × 100 m relay	42.30
2019	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	8th	60 m	7.30
	Universiade	Naples, Italy	2nd	100 m	11.33
	Universiade	Naples, Italy	1st	4 × 100 m relay	43.72
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	29th (h)	100 m	11.36
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	4th	4 × 100 m relay	42.18
2021	European Indoor Championships	Toruń, Poland	1st	60 m	7.03
	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	5th	100 m	10.97
	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	4th	4 × 100 m relay	42.08
2022	World Championships	Eugene, United States	37th (h)	100 m	11.41
	World Championships	Eugene, United States	7th	4 × 100 m relay	42.81
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	9th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	43.93

Her mother, Senada Položanin, was born in Jajce, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia, where she worked as a doctor until the Bosnian War broke out.^[8] Her father, Claudio Del Ponte, is a cousin of war crimes prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Carla Del Ponte.

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