| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 17 May 2005 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Hammer throw |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal bests | Hammer: 69.56 m (2025) NR |
Medal record | |
Valentina Savva (born 17 May 2005) is a Cypriot hammer thrower. She is the national record holder at the discipline. [1]
She has a Ukrainian mother and a Cypriot father. She lived in Larnaca, Cyprus, and later attended the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States. [2]
She won a gold medal at the 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships in Jerusalem. [3] She placed fourth at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia. [4] Later that year, she was nominated by the European Athletics Association (EAA) Awards in the Women's Rising Star category. [5]
She won a gold medal at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem. [6] She was a silver medalist at the 2023 Games of the Small States in Malta. [7]
In early 2024, she changed coaching set-up from Giorgos Aresti, who she had known from the age of 12 years-old, to national coach Constantinos Stathelakos, however a few days later Stathelakos died in a road traffic accident in South Africa where the team was out for winter training. She worked later that year with Paraskevi Theodorou, Stathelakos’ widow. [2] She was a bronze medalists at the Balkan Athletics Championships in Izmir, Turkey in May 2024. [8] She was a silver medalist at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru with a throw of 67.21 metres. [9] [10]
She qualified for the 2025 NCAA Championships in the United States with a winning throw of 67.75 metres at the West Regionals finals. [11] At the NCAA Championships in June, she qualified for the final in Eugene, Oregon, placing tenth in the hammer throw with a best effort of 66.84 metres. [12] She threw a new national record in the hammer throw of 69.56m at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships Second Division in Maribor in June 2025. [13] She was selected to represent Cyprus at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway. [14]
