Roberta Bruni

Roberta Bruni (born 8 March 1994) is an Italian pole vaulter. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics, in pole vault. Her personal best of 4.73 m 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: 4.70 m (Clermont-Ferrand, France, 28 February 2025) - Current holder

Progression Starting with the 2022 season – when World Athletics adopted the current World Rankings system – events such as pole vault, high jump, long jump, triple jump and shot put will have a single seasonal ranking, which includes both outdoor and indoor performances, rather than two separate lists.

YearPerformanceVenueDateWorld Rank2025 4.70 (i) Clermont-Ferrand 28 February 122024 4.66 Monaco 16 July 202023 4.73 Chiari 4 September 132022 4.72 Rovereto 30 August 11

Pole vault outdoor Updated to 6 September 2023

Pole vault indoor

Achievements

National titles Bruni has won 12 national championships at individual senior level.

Italian Athletics Championships Pole vault: 2014, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 (5) Italian Athletics Indoor Championships Pole vault: 2013, 2015, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2025 (6)