Matteo Sioli

Matteo Sioli

Personal information
Born	(2005-10-01) 1 October 2005 (age 19)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	High jump
Club	Euroatletica 2002
Achievements and titles
National finals	Italiano
Personal best(s)	High jump: 2.30m (Apeldoorn, 2025)
Medal record Men's athletics Representing   Italy European Indoor Championships 2025 Apeldoorn High jump European U23 Championships 2025 Bergen High jump World U20 Championships 2024 Lima High jump

Matteo Sioli (born 1 October 2005) is an Italian high jumper. He won the Italian Indoor Championships and was a bronze medalist at the European Indoor Championships in 2025. ^[1]

Career

He is from Paderno Dugnano in the Metropolitan City of Milan, Lombardy and is coached by Felice Delaini. He is a member of Paderno Dugnano of Euroatletica 2002. He finished sixth at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem in July 2023. ^{[2] [3]}

He became Italian Junior champion both outdoors and indoors, and set a new personal best height of 2.21 metres in June 2024. ^[4] He won the silver medal in the high jump at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships, in Lima, Peru, in August 2024, with a new personal best clearance of 2.23 metres. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

He improved his personal best to 2.25 metres whilst competing in Parma, Italy, in December 2024, the highest jump ever reached by an Italian junior athlete. ^[8] He achieved that height again, competing in Udine, Italy, in February 2025. ^[9] Later that month, he won the Italian Athletics Indoor Championships with a new personal best jump of 2.28 metres, in Ancona. ^[10] He was selected for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Appeldoorn, Netherlands, in March 2025. Competing at the Championships, he won the bronze medal with a new personal best of 2.29 metres, equalling the jump of the silver medalist Czech jumper Jan Stefela who was awarded second place on countback, with both behind Oleh Doroshchuk of Ukraine, who cleared 2.34 metres, with Sioli's compatriot Manuel Lando in fourth place with 2.26 metres. ^{[11] [12]}

He cleared 2.15 metres to finish joint-sixth in May 2025 at the 2025 Doha Diamond League. ^[13] The following week, he placed eighth overall at the 2025 Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat, also part of the 2025 Diamond League, in May 2025. ^[14] He finished fifth with a jump of 2.23 metres at the Diamond League event at the 2025 Golden Gala in Rome on 6 June 2025. ^[15] He finished second in the high jump at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships First Division in Madrid on 28 June 2025. ^[16] He set a new personal best of 2.30 metres to win the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway. ^[17]

In September, he cleared 2.24 metres to place joint-eighth at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. ^[18]

References

1. "Matteo Sioli". World Athletics. Retrieved 23 Feb 2015.
2. "Athletics, the future of the Italian high jump and beyond at UdinJump 2025". Ilpais. 18 December 2024. Retrieved 23 Feb 2025.
3. "Paderno Dugnano, Sioli wins bronze at the European Championships". Nordmilano24.it (in Italian). 10 March 2025. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
4. "Sioli Takes Off: 2.21 (2nd Junior in the World 2024)". Fidal.Lonbardia. 1 June 2024. Retrieved 23 Feb 2025.
5. "Paderno Dugnano, Matteo Sioli medaglia d'argento ai Mondiali U20". Nordmilano24.it. 31 August 2024. Retrieved 23 Feb 2025.
6. "Matteo Sioli silver at the under 20 World Championships". Fidal.it. August 31, 2024. Retrieved 23 Feb 2025.
7. "Athletics, Matteo Sioli flies to Parma: 2.25 and U20 record in indoor high jump". SportFace. 21 December 2024. Retrieved 23 Feb 2025.
8. "High Jump. Sioli Clears 2,25 at Only Nineteen Years Old". Quotidiano.net. 22 December 2024. Retrieved 23 Feb 2025.
9. "Athletics Matteo Sioli on the shields in UdinJump Development Great emotions on the platform". Oasport.it. 7 Feb 2025. Retrieved 23 Feb 2025.
10. "Fortunato shatters world indoor 5000m race walk record in Ancona". European Athletics. 22 Feb 2025. Retrieved 23 Feb 2025.
11. "Europei indoor: 39 azzurri per Apeldoorn". Fidal.it. 26 February 2025. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
12. "European golds for Iapichino and Diaz, Sioli bronze in high jump". laprovinciaunicatv.it. 8 March 2025. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
13. "Results - Doha Diamond League 2025". Watch Athletics. 16 May 2025. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
14. "Results - Rabat Diamond League 2025". Watch Athletics. 25 May 2025. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
15. "Results - Rome Diamond League Golden Gala 2025". Watch Athletics. 6 June 2025. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
16. Broadbent, Chris (28 Jun 2025). "Czechia's Stefela wins high jump with the highest mark outdoors in 2025". Eurorpean Athletics. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
17. Mills, Steven (20 Jul 2025). "Sioli skies 2.30m lifetime best to win high jump gold in Bergen". European Athletics. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
18. "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 16 September 2025. Retrieved 22 September 2025.

External links

• Matteo Sioli at World Athletics
• Matteo Sioli at the Italian Athletics Federation (in Italian)