Ajla_Del_Ponte

Ajla Del Ponte

Ajla Del Ponte

Swiss sprinter (born 1996)

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[1] and at the 2017 World Championships in London.[2] 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.[3] At the 2020 Summer Olympics she set a new national record for the 100 metres running 10.91 in the heats.[4] 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.[5][6]

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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.[7] 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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References

  1. [1]
    "Ajla Del Ponte". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 21 August 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
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    "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original on 13 August 2017. Retrieved 18 September 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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    "European Athletics Indoor Championships 60m Women Final" (PDF). European Athletics. 7 March 2021. Retrieved 7 March 2021.[permanent dead link]
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    "Athletics - Round 1 - Heat 5 Results". Archived from the original on 30 July 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
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    "Jessica Mayho moves to second in all-time UK hammer rankings - weekly round-up". AW. 16 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
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    Smith, Gary (2021). "Del Ponte improves Swiss record with 10.90s at Resisprint International". World-Track and Field Website. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  7. [7]
    "Swiss sprinters: the women's dream team". houseofswitzerland.org.
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