Angelina Topić

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 medallist of the entire championships.^[1] The same year, Topić earned also bronze at the World Under-20 Championships.

Angelina Topić

Topić in 2022, by Sandro Halank
Personal information
Nationality	Serbian
Born	(2005-07-26) 26 July 2005 (age 19) Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
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	1.98 m (6 ft 5+3⁄4 in) NU20R NR (2024) Indoors 1.97 m (6 ft 5+1⁄2 in) NR (2024)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Serbia European Championships 2024 Rome High jump 2022 Munich High jump Diamond League 2023 High jump World U20 Championships 2024 Lima High jump 2022 Cali High jump European U20 Championships 2023 Jerusalem High jump European U18 Championships 2022 Jerusalem High jump

She is the current Serbian record holder for the high jump indoors and out, and also holds joint world U18 best outdoors.^[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, breaking Mladen Nikolic's record dating back to 1984 and 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 leap of 1.94 m at a meeting in Belgrade.^[7][8]

During 2024 Paris Olympics Angelina 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.^[9]

In August 2024, less than a month after the injury, Angelina won the gold medal at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships.^[10]

Achievements

International competitions

Representing  Serbia

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Result
2021	Balkan U20 Indoor Championships	Sofia, Bulgaria	2nd	High jump	1.82 m
	Balkan U20 Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	1st	High jump	1.88 m
	European Team Championships Third League	Limassol, Cyprus	2nd	High jump	1.85 m
	Balkan Championships	Smederevo, Serbia	10th	High jump	1.82 m
	European U20 Championships	Tallinn, Estonia	8th	High jump	1.83 m
	Balkan U18 Championships	Kraljevo, Serbia	1st	High jump	1.83 m
	World U20 Championships	Nairobi, Kenya	6th	High jump	1.84 m
2022	Balkan U20 Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	1st	High jump	1.86 m
	World Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	9th	High jump	1.88 m
	Balkan U18 Championships	Bar, Montenegro	1st	High jump	1.90 m
	European U18 Championships	Jerusalem, Israel	1st	High jump	1.92 m
	World U20 Championships	Cali, Colombia	3rd	High jump	1.93 m
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	3rd	High jump	1.93 m
2023	European Indoor Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	4th	High jump	1.94 m
	European Team Championships	Kraków, Poland	5th	High jump	1.91 m
	European U20 Championships	Jerusalem, Israel	1st	High jump	1.90 m
			6th	Long jump	6.42 m
	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary	7th	High jump	1.94 m
	Diamond League	Eugene, United States	3rd	High jump	1.95 m
2024	World Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	5th	High jump	1.92 m
	European Championships	Rome, Italy	2nd	High jump	1.97 m
			26th (q)	Long jump	6.29 m
	Olympic Games	Paris, France	12th (q)	High jump	1.92 m1
	World U20 Championships	Lima, Peru	1st	High jump	1.91 m
	Diamond League	Brussels, Belgium	5th	High jump	1.88 m
2025	2025 Belgrade Indoor Meeting	Belgrade, Serbia	1st	High jump	1.92 m[11]

¹Did not start in the final.

Personal bests

Event	Performance	Location	Date	Note
High jump (outdoor)	1.98 m	Rabat, Morocco	19 May 2024	NU20R NR
High jump (indoor)	1.94 m	Belgrade, Serbia	25 January 2023	NR
Pentathlon (indoor)	3745	Belgrade, Serbia	23 January 2022	NU20R
Pentathlon girls (indoor)	3779	Belgrade, Serbia	18 December 2021	NU18R
Long jump (indoor)	6.57 m	Belgrade, Serbia	24 January 2024	NU20R NR

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

Awards

2022

• Piotr Nurowski Best Summer European Young Athlete Prize^[6]

See also

• Serbian records in athletics

References

1. Berkeley, Geoff (2022-09-30). "Topić targets high jump greatness after claiming EOC Piotr Nurowski Prize". Inside the Games. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
2. "Topic equals world U18 high jump best with 1.96m at Serbian Championships". European Athletics. 27 June 2022. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
3. "Roditelji su joj srpski rekorderi i legende, a ona skače za zlato". nova.rs (in Serbian). 21 August 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
4. "Topic equals world U18 high jump best with 1.96m at Serbian Championships". European Athletics. 2022-06-27. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
5. "Angelina Topić osvojila bronzu na EP u skoku uvis". rts.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 21 August 2022.
6. "European bronze medallist Topic wins prestigious Piotr Nurowski Prize". European Athletics. 2022-10-03. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
7. "Tromeč reprezentacija: Angelina Topić oborila nacionalni rekord". Sportski žurnal. 25 January 2023. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
8. "Angelina Topić nadmašila Ivanu Španović i oborila državni rekord za starije juniorke". Radio Televizija Srbije. 24 January 2023. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
9. "Serbia high jumper Angelina Topic will miss the Paris Olympics final after fracturing her ankle". The Associated Press. 2 August 2024.
10. "Reid anchors Jamaica to 4x100m title to secure golden double in Lima". worldathletics.org.
11. "Angelina Topić kraljica beogardskog mitinga: Pobeda i najava uspešne godine". Euronews. 29 January 2025. Retrieved 18 February 2025.

External links

• Angelina Topić at World Athletics
• Angelina Topić at European Athletics