Valentina Uccheddu

Valentina Uccheddu
Personal information
NationalityItalian
Born (1966-10-26) October 26, 1966
Oristano, Italy
Height1.66 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in)
Weight45 kg (99 lb)
Sport
CountryItaly Italy
SportAthletics
EventLong jump
ClubAtletica oristano
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • Long jump: 6.80 m (1994)
  • Triple jump: 12.32 m (1988)
Medal record
Mediterranean Games
Silver medal – second place 1991 Athens Long jump

Valentina Uccheddu (born 26 October 1966) is a retired Italian long jumper. She won six national championships and competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

Early life

Uccheddu was born on 26 October 1966 in Oristano, Sardinia, Italy.[1]

Career

Uccheddu contested her first International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) event in Trento, Italy in June 1988. She won the event with a jump of 6.62 m.[2]

She finished ninth at the 1990 European Athletics Championships in Split, Socialist Republic of Croatia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.[3]

In 1991, she won the first of her Italian Athletics Championships titles, winning both the outdoor and indoor long jump titles.[4][5] She also finished seventh at the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Seville, Spain[2] and won the silver medal at the 1991 Mediterranean Games in Athens, Greece.[6]

She retained her national outdoor title the following year.[4]

Uccheddu made her Olympic debut at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.[1] The women's long jump took place on 6 and 7 August 1992 at the Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc. In qualifying, Uccheddu recorded a jump of 6.6 m which was ultimately not enough to advance to the final and she finished 21st overall.[7]

In 1995, she won her fourth Italian Athletics Championships title, winning the outdoor long jump for the third time.[4]

She won a double Italian Athletics Championships again in 1999, taking both the outdoor and indoor long jump titles as she had eight years previously.[4][5]

International competitions

Year Competition Venue Position Notes
Representing  Italy
1990 European Championships Split, Yugoslavia 9th 6.58 m (wind: -0.4 m/s)
1991 World Indoor Championships Seville, Spain 7th 6.58 m
Mediterranean Games Athens, Greece 2nd 6.52 m
1993 World Championships Stuttgart, Germany 12th 6.38 m
1994 European Indoor Championships Paris, France 4th 6.69 m
European Championships Helsinki, Finland 13th (q) 6.37 m (wind: -0.1 m/s)
1995 World Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 5th 6.76 m

National titles

Valentina Uccheddu has won six times individually at the national championships.[4][5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Valentina Uccheddu". Olympedia. Retrieved 14 July 2025.
  2. ^ a b "Valentina UCCHEDDU". World Athletics. Retrieved 14 July 2025.
  3. ^ "European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK" (PDF). European Athletics Association. pp. 451–460. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  4. ^ a b c d e ""CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" ITALIANE SUL PODIO TRICOLORE – 1923 2012" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
  5. ^ a b c "ITALIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  6. ^ "1991 ATHÈNES (GRE), (11 juin – 12 juillet)" (PDF). Comité international des Jeux méditerranéens. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2013. Retrieved 14 July 2025.
  7. ^ "1992 Summer Olympics, Long Jump, Women". Olympedia. Retrieved 14 July 2025.
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