# 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. The same year, Topić earned also bronze at the World Under-20 Championships.
She is the current Serbian record holder for the high jump indoors and out, and also holds joint world U18 best outdoors.

## 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.

## 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. 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. She also set national records at U18 & U20 levels in the pentathlon that year.
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.
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.
In August 2024, less than a month after the injury, Angelina won the gold medal at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships.

## Achievements
### International competitions

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