Ajla Del Ponte
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Nationality | Swiss | ||||||||||||||
Born | Locarno, Switzerland | 15 July 1996||||||||||||||
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Country | Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||
Event | Sprints | ||||||||||||||
Coached by | Laurent Meuwly[1] | ||||||||||||||
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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
[edit]Personal life
[edit]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.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Meuwly receives Coaching Achievement Award" (press release), World Athletics, 4 December 2023. Retrieved 9 May 2024.
- ^ "Ajla Del Ponte". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 21 August 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original on 13 August 2017. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "European Athletics Indoor Championships 60m Women Final" (PDF). European Athletics. 7 March 2021. Retrieved 7 March 2021.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Athletics - Round 1 - Heat 5 Results". Archived from the original on 30 July 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ "Jessica Mayho moves to second in all-time UK hammer rankings - weekly round-up". AW. 16 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ Smith, Gary (2021). "Del Ponte improves Swiss record with 10.90s at Resisprint International". World-Track and Field Website. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ "Swiss sprinters: the women's dream team". houseofswitzerland.org.
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- 1996 births
- Living people
- Swiss female sprinters
- Swiss people of Bosnia and Herzegovina descent
- Sportspeople from Locarno
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Switzerland
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Switzerland
- Medalists at the 2019 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade
- European Athletics Indoor Championships winners
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic female sprinters
- 21st-century Swiss women