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| Nationality | Swiss | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1996-07-15)15 July 1996 (age 28) Locarno, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Sprints | ||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Laurent Meuwly[1] | ||||||||||||||
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Ajla Del Ponte (born 15 July 1996) is a Swisssprinter. She competed in thewomen's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the2016 Summer Olympics[2] and at the2017 World Championships inLondon.[3] She won thewomen's 60 metres at the2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships, doing so in a world leading time and equaling theSwiss record of 7.03 seconds.[4] At the2020 Summer Olympics she set a new national record for the100 metres running 10.91 in the heats.[5] On 14 August, she shaved a hundredth of a second off of her record, achieving a time of 10.90 at the 2021 Resisprint International.[6][7]
Her mother, Senada Položanin, was born inJajce,SR Bosnia and Herzegovina,SFR Yugoslavia, where she worked as a doctor until theBosnian War broke out.[8] Her father, Claudio Del Ponte, is a cousin of war crimes prosecutor for theInternational Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia,Carla Del Ponte.
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