Ajla Del Ponte (born 15 July 1996) is a Swiss sprinter. She competed in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 2016 Summer Olympics[2] and at the 2017 World Championships in London.[3] She won the women's 60 metres at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships, doing so in a world leading time and equaling the Swiss record of 7.03 seconds.[4] At the 2020 Summer Olympics she set a new national record for the 100 metres running 10.91 in the heats.[5] On 14 August, she shaved a hundredth of a second off of her record, achieving a time of 10.90 at the 2021 Resisprint International.[6][7]
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Nationality | Swiss | ||||||||||||||
Born | Locarno, Switzerland | 15 July 1996||||||||||||||
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Country | Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||
Event | Sprints | ||||||||||||||
Coached by | Laurent Meuwly[1] | ||||||||||||||
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Personal life
Her mother, Senada Položanin, was born in Jajce, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia, where she worked as a doctor until the Bosnian War broke out.[8] Her father, Claudio Del Ponte, is a cousin of war crimes prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Carla Del Ponte.
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