Ajla Del Ponte
Swiss sprinter (born 1996)
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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 | 15 July 1996 Locarno, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
