Antonella Capriotti


Antonella Capriotti is a retired Italian long jumper and triple jumper.
She has won the Italian Championships 18 times.

Biography

She started off her career as a long jumper and later, with excellent results, succeeded also in triple jump, that was ushering in various international competitions.
She was also the first Italian athlete to cross the threshold of fourteen meters in triple jump. Her personal best of 6.72 meters in long jump still remains the third best performance ever in Italy after Fiona May's 7.11m and Valentina Uccheddu's 6.80m.
She participated in the Seoul Olympic Games in 1988 and in the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992. She currently lives in Verona, Italy. She was invited from the RAI to comment the World Athletics Championship 2011 in Daegu.

Achievements

National titles

Antonella Capriotti has won 18 times the individual national championship.