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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) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Valentina Rosamilia (born 27 January 2003) is a Swiss middle-distance runner. She competed at the 2024 Olympic Games. [1]
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]
She was considered for a place on the Swiss team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan but had to withdraw for health reasons. [12]
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. [13] She had to delay the commencement of her time in the military after being selected for the 2024 Olympic Games. [14]
