Valentina Rosamilia
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| Nationality | Swiss | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 January 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Middle distance | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 800m: 1:58.69 (Winterthur, 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Valentina Rosamilia (born 27 January 2003) is a Swiss middle-distance runner. She competed at the 2024 Olympic Games.[1]
Career
[edit]She is a member of BTV Aarau athletics club.[2] She won Swiss junior indoor titles over 400 metres and 1500 metres in 2019.[3] In July 2019 she won silver in the 800 metres at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Baku.[4] At the same event she won a bronze in the medley relay.[5] In February 2020, she retained her Swiss junior indoor titles over 400 metres and 1500 metres.[3]
In July 2021, she won the bronze medal in the 800 metres at the 2021 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia.[6] In August 2021, she was a silver medalist at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya over 800 metres.[7]
In March 2023, she competed at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey.[8] She set a new personal best of 2:00.98 in qualifying for the semi final of the 800 metres at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome.[9] She ran a lifetime best of 1:58.69 in finishing third in Winterthur at the Swiss Athletics Championships in June 2024.[10] She competed in the 800 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024, where she reached the semi-finals.[11]
Personal life
[edit]She is from Hunzenschwil in the canton of Aargau.[3] In 2024, she was accepted as a member of the Swiss military, having been selected from a wider pool of volunteers for a four-year period service.[12] She had to delay the commencement of her time in the military after being selected for the 2024 Olympic Games.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ "Valentina Rosamilla". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
- ^ "A touch of the Olympics at the Junior Swiss Championships in Langenthal". Swiss-athletics.ch (in German). 15 August 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- ^ a b c Salathe, Philip (February 23, 2020). "«Junior Indoor Swiss Championships» - Valentina Rosamilia is double Swiss champion". Tagblatt.ch (in German). Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- ^ "Valentina Rosamilia décroche l'argent au FOJE !" [Valentina Rosamilia wins silver at the EYOF!]. Swiss-Athletics (in French). July 24, 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
- ^ Baranzini, Fabio (21 August 2021). "Valentina Rosamilia, die Aargauer Leichtathletin mit "Weltklasse-Potenzial"" [Valentina Rosamilia, the Aargau athlete with "world-class potential"]. aargauersport.ch (in German). Retrieved 1 July 2024.
- ^ "Zweimal Gold und einmal Bronze für die Schweiz in Tallinn" [Two golds and one bronze for Switzerland in Tallinn]. Swiss-Athletics (in German). 17 July 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
- ^ "Valentina Rosamilia gewinnt in Nairobi WM-Silber!" [Valentina Rosamilia wins World Championship silver in Nairobi!]. swiss-athletics (in German). 21 August 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
- ^ "European Athletics Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 2 March 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
- ^ "Drei weitere Schweizer Plätze in den Halbfinals und zwei persönliche Bestleistungen von Giger und Rosamilia" [Three more Swiss places in the semifinals and two personal bests from Giger and Rosamilia]. Aargauer Zeitung (in German). 10 June 2024. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
- ^ "National championships roundup - Big vaults for Caudery and Karalis". European-Athletics. 30 June 2024. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
- ^ "Women's 800m Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". Watch Athletics. 5 August 2024. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
- ^ Kuchta, Marcel (17 Jan 2025). "Vier Jahre Zeitmilitär: Valentina Rosamilia gehört zu einem erlauchten Kreis – ein Geschenk oder doch eine Bürde?". zofingertagblatt.ch (in German). Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- ^ "Aargau Olympic participant Valentina Rosamilia: "Now I have to wait longer voluntarily – that's a bit annoying."". Badenertagblatt.ch (in German). July 9, 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
