Angelina Topić

Angelina Topić (; 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 medalist of the entire championships.

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, 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 jump of 1.94 m at a meeting in Belgrade.

At the 2024 European Athletics Championships in June, Topić won the silver medal in high jump with the height of 1.97 m. She also competed in long jump but did not qualify for the finals. At the 2024 Paris Olympics in August, she 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. Later in August 2024, less than a month after the injury, she won the gold medal at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships.

In March 2025, Topić won silver in high jump at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships. Later in March, she was fourth at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships. In July, she won gold medal at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships. At the 2025 World Athletics Championships in September, Topić won a joint bronze medal with Ukrainian Yaroslava Mahuchikh with the height of 1.97 m. In February 2026, Topić set a new Serbian record with 2.00 m at Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.

Achievements International competitions 1Did not start in the final.

Personal bests Event Performance Location Date Note High jump (outdoor) 2.00 m Banská Bystrica, Slovakia 24 February 2026 Pentathlon (indoor) 3745 Belgrade, Serbia 23 January 2022 Pentathlon girls (indoor) 3779 Belgrade, Serbia 18 December 2021 Long jump (indoor) 6.57 m Belgrade, Serbia 24 January 2024

National titles Serbian Athletics Championships: 2021, 2022 Serbian Indoor Athletics Championships: 2021

Seasonal bests by year Line chart showing Angelina Topić's annual high jump bests, 2018–2024.

2018 – 1.60 2019 – 1.71 2020 – 1.81 2021 – 1.88 2022 – 1.96 2023 – 1.97 2024 – 1.98 2026 – 2.00

Awards 2022 Piotr Nurowski Best Summer European Young Athlete Prize