# Roberta Bruni

Roberta Bruni (born 8 March 1994) is an Italian pole vaulter. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Pole vault. Her personal best of 4.60 m (15 ft 1 in) is the Italian record for the event.

## Career

Her personal best indoor (4.60 m) is the second best junior performance of all-time after the world record of the Swedish Angelica Bengtsson, established at the 2013 Italian Athletics Indoor Championships.
Her height of 4.35 m established on 16 June 2012 in Misano Adriatico was the third best by a junior athlete that year. She is a friend of fellow Italian pole vaulter Giorgia Benecchi.
In 2021, she participated in the Tokyo Olympics, but failed to make it past the qualifying stages stopping at 4.25m.
In 2022, she participated in the World Championships in Eugene and the European Championships in Munich. In Eugene, she failed to qualify for the final after jumping 4.35 m on her second attempt and failing to clear 4.50 m. In Monaco, she reached the final and finished the European championships in seventh place with a measure of 4.55 m, jumped on her third attempt.
In 2023, after a lower-than-expected World Championships in Budapest (in which she failed to pass the qualifying round), she set a new Italian record in Chiari on September 4, with a measure of 4.73 m.

## National records

* Pole vault outdoor: 4.73 m (Chiari, Italy, 4 September 2023) - Current holder
* Pole vault indoor: 4.62 m (Ancona, Italy, 18 February 2023) - Current holder

## Progression

Personal best

### Pole vault outdoor

Updatet to 6 September 2023
| Year | Performance | Venue | Date | World Rank Senior | World Rank U20 | World Rank U18 |
| 2023 | 4.73 | Chiari | 4 September | 10th | | |
| 2022 | 4.72 | Rovereto | 30 August | 9th | | |
| 2021 | 4.70 | Rieti | 23 May | 12th | | |
| 2020 | 4.30 | Rieti | 23 July | 52nd | | |
| 2019 | 4.52 | Chiari | 2 September | 37th | | |
| 2018 | 4.40 | Rieti | 19 August | 59th | | |
| 2017 | 4.25 | Rieti | 27 May | 115th | | |
| 2016 | 4.20 | Rieti | 22 May | 99th | | |
| 2015 | 4.25 | Torino | 26 July | 86th | | |
| 2014 | 4.45 | Rieti | 31 July | 36th | | |
| 2013 | 4.40 | Formia | 30 May | 54th | 3rd | |
| 2012 | 4.35 | Misano Adriatico | 16 June | 50th | 4th | |
| 2011 | 4.20 | Rieti | 2 June | 104th | 11th | 3rd |
| 2010 | 3.85 | Rieti | 3 October | 367th | 23rd | 74th |

### Pole vault indoor

| Year | Performance | Venue | Date | World Rank Senior | World Rank U20 | World Rank U18 |
| 2023 | 4.62 | Ancona | 18 February | 9th | | |
| 2022 | 4.31 | Ancona | 27 February | 68th | | |
| 2021 | 4.41 | Ancona | 21 February | | | |
| 2020 | season not disputed | season not disputed | season not disputed | season not disputed | season not disputed | season not disputed |
| 2019 | 4.40 | Ancona | 17 February | | | |
| 2018 | 4.35 | Florence | 8 February | | | |
| 2017 | season not disputed | season not disputed | season not disputed | season not disputed | season not disputed | season not disputed |
| 2016 | 4.30 | Padova | 22 February | 76th | | |
| 2015 | 4.30 | Ancona | 7 February | 76th | | |
| 2014 | season not disputed | season not disputed | season not disputed | season not disputed | season not disputed | season not disputed |
| 2013 | 4.60 | Ancona | 17 February | 8th | 1st | |
| 2012 | 4.25 | Fermo | 28 January | 76th | 5th | |
| 2011 | 3.20 | Fermo | 29 January | | | |

## Achievements

| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Performance | Notes |
| 2011 | World Youth Championships | Lille | 6th | Pole vault | 4.00 m | |
| 2011 | European Youth Summer Olympic Festival | Trabzon | 1st | Pole vault | 4.10 m | |
| 2012 | World Junior Championships | Barcelona | 3rd | Pole vault | 4.20 m | |
| 2019 | Universiade | Naples | 1st | Pole vault | 4.46 m | PB |
| 2021 | European Team Championships (SL) | Chorzów | 1st | Pole vault | 4.45 m | |

## National titles

Bruni has won nine national championships at individual senior level.
* Italian Athletics Championships
** Pole vault: 2014, 2018, 2022, 2023 (4)
* Italian Athletics Indoor Championships
** Pole vault: 2013, 2015, 2018, 2021, 2023 (5)