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| Born | 17 December 2003 (age 22) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | High Jump | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | High Jump: 1.91m (Bergen, 2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Styliana Ioannidou (born 17 December 2003) is a Cypriot high jumper. She is a multiple time national champion and in 2021, became the first Cypriot to win a medal at the World Athletics U20 Championships. She represented Cyprus at the 2025 World Championships. [1]
In 2019, Ioannidou won the bronze medal in the high jump at the 2019 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan. [2] The following year, she won the gold medal at the Indoor Balkan U20 Games in Istanbul, with a national youth record jump of 1.82 metres. In August 2020, she became the senior Cypriot national women's champion, with a jump of 1.84m, breaking her own under-18 national record in Nicosia. [3]
In February 2021, she retained her indoor title at the Balkan Indoor Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, breaking the championship record with a jump of 1.84 metres. [4] Ioannidou placed sixth as a 17 year-old at the 2021 European Athletics U20 Championships in July 2021 in Tallinn, Estonia. [5] The following month, she won the bronze medal at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya, with a jump of 1.87 metres. It was the first Cypriot medal ever won at the championships and equalled the under-20 Cypriot record set in 2013 by Leontia Kallenou. [6] [7] [8]
Ioannidou jumped a personal best 1.91 metres to place fourth overall at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway. [9] [10] That summer, she also placed fourth at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Bochum, Germany in the women's high jump. [11] She represented Cyprus in September at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [12] [13]
