Katerina Stefanidi is a Greek pole vaulter. She won the gold medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics with a jump of 4.85 meters and has also competed at the 2012 and the 2020 Summer Olympics. She is the current European Outdoor (2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019) and Diamond League (2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019) champion, …
Christin Hussong is a German track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. She is ranked No 1 in the women’s javelin throw. She has won gold at the 2011 World Youth Championships, 2015 European U23 Championships, and the 2018 European Championships. Christin Hussong holds the European Championships record with her personal best …
Maria Vicente is a Spanish athlete specializing in combined events and triple jump. She is the holder of the U18 World Best in the pentathlon, as well as the senior Spanish national record in pentathlon and heptathlon. Maria Vicente was born on March 28, 2001, in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain. Her father was born in …
Maria Huntington is a Finnish long jumper and heptathlete, who represents Tampereen Pyrinto. She is world’s No 16 in Women’s Heptathlon, as well as world’s No 115 in Women’s Long Jump. Maria Huntington was born on March 13, 1997, to a Finnish mother and an English father. She moved to Finland from England with her …
Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova is a Belarusian long jumper athlete, who became known for missing the World Championships gold medal in 2011 because of her hairstyle. Her ponytail left a mark in the sand well behind her body’s 6.90 m mark. Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova was born on April 13, 1989, in Slutsk, Belarus. She started training athletics from …
Emma Oosterwegel is a Dutch track and field athlete who specializes in the heptathlon. She won a bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics and as of August 26, 2021, is the world’s No 6 in the discipline. Emma Oosterwegel was born on June 29, 1998, in Deventer, Netherlands. She took up athletics at age …
Alysha Newman is a Canadian track and field athlete specializing in the pole vault. She is the reigning Commonwealth Games champion in the women’s pole vault following the 2018 Games in the Gold Coast, where she set a new Games record of 4.75 meters (15.6 ft). Alysha Newman was born on June 29, 1994, in …
Nina Kennedy is an Australian athlete who specializes in the pole vault. She competed at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing without clearing the opening height in the qualification round. As of March 2021, Nina Kennedy is ranked 20th in the world in the women’s pole vault category and holds the Australian Record of 4.82m, …
Ajla Del Ponte is a Swiss sprinter. She competed in the women’s 4×100 meters relay event at the 2016 Summer Olympics and at the 2017 World Championships in London. She won the women’s 60 meters at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships, doing so in a world-leading time and equaling the Swiss record of 7.03 …
Gianna Ursula Woodruff Washington is a Panamanian track and field athlete specializing in the 400 meters hurdles. She represented her country at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics improving her own South American record with a time of 54.22 seconds in the semi-finals to finish 7th in the final. Gianna Woodruff was born on November 18, 1993, …
