Valentina Rosamilia
Swiss athlete (born 2003)
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Valentina Rosamilia (born 27 January 2003) is a Swiss middle-distance runner. She competed at the 2024 Olympic Games.[1]
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| Nationality | Swiss | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 January 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Middle distance | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | 800 m: 1:58.16 (Birmingham, 2026) Indoor 800 m: 1:59.81 (St Gallen, 2026) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
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]
After returning to fitness she opened 2026 with an indoor personal best of 2:00.78 for the 800 metres in Ostrava on 3 February 2026, before lowering it again to 1:59.90 finishing runner-up to Femke Bol in Metz on 6 February.[13][14] She was second to Audrey Werro at the Swiss Indoor Championships over 800 metres on 1 March 2026, running 1:59.81 in the final.[15] Rosamilia reached the semi-finals of the 800 m at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland.[16][17] In May, she competed in Poland again and ran the 800 metres in 2:00.73 to win at the Irena Szewińska Memorial.[18]
Personal life
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.[19] She had to delay the commencement of her time in the military after being selected for the 2024 Olympic Games.[20]