Angelina Topić
Serbian high jumper (born 2005)
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Angelina Topić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ангелина Топић; born 26 July 2005) is a Serbian athlete specializing in the high jump. At the age of 17, she won the bronze medal at the 2022 European Athletics Championships, becoming the youngest medalist of the entire championships.[1] The same year, Topić earned also bronze at the World Under-20 Championships. She won silver medal at the 2024 European Athletics Championships and bronze at the 2025 World Athletics Championships.
Topić in 2022 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Serbian |
| Born | 26 July 2005 |
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country | Serbia |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | High jump Long jump |
| Coached by | Dragutin Topić |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal bests | 2.00 m (6 ft 6+1⁄2 in) NR (2026) |
Medal record | |
Topić is the current Serbian record holder for the high jump indoors and out (with 2.00 m), and also holds joint world U18 best outdoors (with 1.96m).[2]
Background
Angelina Topić's mother is Biljana Topić, the Serbian triple jump record holder, who was fourth in the event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. Her coach is her father Dragutin Topić, the Serbian high jump record holder and European high jump champion, a title he won as a teenager in 1990.[3]
Career
In her breakthrough 2022 season in June, still only 16, Topić set a national senior high jump record of 1.96 m at the Serbian Championships in Kruševac, equalling the world under-18 best.[4] The following month, she won the high jump event at the European Under-18 Championships in Jerusalem with a leap of 1.92 m. In August, she went on to take the bronze medal at the World U20 Championships held in Cali, Colombia, clearing 1.93 m. At her first major senior competition the same month, Topić earned bronze at the Munich European Championships with a jump of 1.93 m, becoming the youngest medallist of the entire championships.[5][6] She also set national records at U18 & U20 levels in the pentathlon that year.[1]
In January 2023, she broke the Serbian indoor high jump record (previously held by Ivana Španović) with a jump of 1.94 m at a meeting in Belgrade.[7][8]
At the 2024 European Athletics Championships in June, Topić won the silver medal in high jump with the height of 1.97 m.[9] She also competed in long jump but did not qualify for the finals.[10] At the 2024 Paris Olympics in August, she fractured her right ankle during warm-up for the qualifying session. Injured, she still qualified, but later had to withdraw from the high jump final.[11] Later in August 2024, less than a month after the injury, she won the gold medal at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships.[12]
In March 2025, Topić won silver in high jump at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships.[13] Later in March, she was fourth at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships.[14] In July, she won gold medal at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships.[15] At the 2025 World Athletics Championships in September, Topić won a joint bronze medal with Ukrainian Yaroslava Mahuchikh with the height of 1.97 m.[16] In February 2026, Topić set a new Serbian record with 2.00 m at Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.[17]
Achievements
International competitions
1Did not start in the final.
Personal bests
National titles
- Serbian Athletics Championships: 2021, 2022
- Serbian Indoor Athletics Championships: 2021
Seasonal bests by year
- 2018 – 1.60
- 2019 – 1.71
- 2020 – 1.81
- 2021 – 1.88
- 2022 – 1.96
- 2023 – 1.97
- 2024 – 1.98
- 2026 – 2.00
Awards
- 2022
- Piotr Nurowski Best Summer European Young Athlete Prize[6]
- 2025
- Sportswoman of The Year by the Olympic Committee of Serbia[18]
