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Maria Vittoria Trio

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Nationality
  
Italian

Name
  
Maria Trio

Country
  
Italy

Height
  
1.80 m


Sport
  
Athletics

Weight
  
58 kg

Club
  
Libertas Torino

Events
  
Long jump

Maria Vittoria Trio

Born
  
September 18, 1947 (age 76) (
1947-09-18
)
Turin, Italy

Personal best(s)
  
Long jump: 6.52 m (1967)

Maria Vittoria Trio (born 18 December 1947 in Turin) is a retired Italian long jumper

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Biography

In 1966, before the 1966 European Athletics Championships, after the introduction of the gender verification testing in sports, she was asked to undergo, but Trio, like many athletes at the time, refused and preferred to withdraw from the competitions in 1967.

In 2012, her 6.52 m, after 45 years, is still the ninth best all-time Italian performance..

National titles

She has won 2 times the individual national championship.

  • 2 wins in the long jump (1965, 1968)
  • References

    Maria Vittoria Trio Wikipedia