Ajla Del Ponte

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Ajla Del Ponte athletics

Ajla Del Ponte 2017.jpg

nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday 15th July 1996 (age 24)
size 168 cm
Weight 56 kg
job Student
Career
discipline sprint
society US Ascona
status active
Medal table
U23 European Championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Summer Universiade 2 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Swiss championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
EAA logo U23 European Championships
bronze Bydgoszcz 2017 4 × 100 m
Logo of the FISU Universiade
gold Taipei 2017 4 × 100 m
gold Naples 2019 4 × 100 m
silver Naples 2019 100 m
Swiss championships
bronze St. Gallen 2016 100 m
last change: July 29, 2019

Ajla Del Ponte (born July 15, 1996 ) is a Swiss athlete who specializes in short sprints and also competes in the relay .

career path

Del Ponte has been a student at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Lausanne since 2016 .

Athletic career

Ajla Del Ponte initially did heptathlon , but was more successful in the sprint and won several championship and runner-up titles in the youth classes. She gained her first international experience in 2014 at the Junior World Championships in Eugene , where she was eliminated in the first round of the 100-meter run with 11.99 seconds and the Swiss 4-by-100-meter relay in 45.02 seconds took fifth place. The following year she took part in the 200-meter run at the European Junior Championships in Eskilstuna , but was eliminated there with 24.64 s in the lead. In 2016, Del Ponte ran a new Swiss record in the 4 x 100 meter relay at the European Championships in Amsterdam in 42.87 seconds and later finished fourth in the final in 43.00 s. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro she came with the relay in the 2nd preliminary series with 43.12 seconds in 6th place and missed the final by 42 hundredths.

In 2017 she made it to the semifinals of the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade in the 60-meter run , in which she was eliminated with 7.39 seconds. At the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz she finished fifth over 100 meters in 11.66 s and won the bronze medal behind Spain and France in 44.07 s with the Swiss relay. With the relay she then took part in the World Championships in London , where she finished fifth in the final in 42.51 s. Just two weeks later she won the gold medal at the Student World Games in Taipei in the 4 x 100 meter relay with Cornelia Halbheer , Salomé Kora and Selina von Jackowski in 43.81 seconds and over 100 meters in 11.62 seconds eighth place. The following year she reached the semi-finals at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham over 60 meters, in which she was eliminated with 7.40 s. Also at the European Championships in Berlin she reached the semi-finals over 100 meters and was eliminated there with 11.38 seconds. In addition, she was fourth with the season in 42.30 s. In 2019 she was eighth over 60 meters in 7.30 s at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow . In July she again took part in the Summer Universiade in Naples and won the silver medal there in 11.33 s behind the Indian Dutee Chand . In addition, she defended her title with the Swiss relay in 43.72 seconds.

Personal best

  • 100 meters: 11.08 s (+0.7 m / s), July 11, 2020 in Bulle
    • 60 meters (hall): 7.17 s, February 16, 2019 in St. Gallen
  • 200 meters: 22.83 s (+1.6 m / s), July 11, 2020 in Bulle
    • 200 meters (hall): 23.69 s, January 27, 2019 in Magglingen

successes

national
  • 2013: 4th place Swiss U18 championships (100 m and 200 m)
  • 2014: Swiss U20 champion (100 m and 200 m)
  • 2014: 3rd place Swiss U20 indoor championships (60 m)
  • 2014: Swiss U20 indoor runner-up (200 m)
  • 2015: 6th place Swiss Indoor Championships (200 m)
  • 2015: Swiss U20 indoor runner-up (60 m)
  • 2015: Swiss U20 champion (100 m)
  • 2015: Swiss U20 runner-up (200 m)
  • 2015: 5th place Swiss championships (100 m)
  • 2016: 4th place Swiss Indoor Championships (60 m)
  • 2016: 3rd place Swiss Championships (100 m)
  • 2016: 4th place Swiss Championships (200 m)

Web links

Commons : Ajla Del Ponte  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marco Engeler: I am totally thrilled about the Olympic selection! , from: tessinerzeitung.ch, accessed August 19, 2016
  2. ↑ L'anno da favola di Ajla Del Ponte - Dopo gli Europei, la ticinese sarà ai Giochi di Rio , on: rsi.ch, from July 13, 2016, accessed August 19, 2016
  3. ↑ News 2016 - Salomé Kora before deployment in Rio , on: lc-bruehl.ch, accessed August 18, 2016
  4. ↑ Swiss 4x100 m relay with 43.12 in the 12th final rank ( memento from August 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), on: swiss-athletics.ch, from August 18, 2016, accessed August 18, 2016
  5. ↑ Results on: european-athletics.org
personal data
SURNAME Ponte, Ajla Del
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss athlete
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1996