Valentina Uccheddu

Valentina Uccheddu (born 26 October 1966) is a retired Italian long jumper. She won six national championships and competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

Early life Uccheddu was born on 26 October 1966 in Oristano, Sardinia, Italy.

Career Uccheddu contested her first International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) event in Trento, Italy in June 1988. She won the event with a jump of 6.62 m.

She finished ninth at the 1990 European Athletics Championships in Split, Socialist Republic of Croatia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

In 1991, she won the first of her Italian Athletics Championships titles, winning both the outdoor and indoor long jump titles. She also finished seventh at the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Seville, Spain

She retained her national outdoor title the following year.

In 1995, she won her fourth Italian Athletics Championships title, winning the outdoor long jump for the third time.

She won a double Italian Athletics Championships again in 1999, taking both the outdoor and indoor long jump titles as she had eight years previously.

International competitions

National titles Valentina Uccheddu has won six times individually at the national championships. 4 wins in long jump (1991, 1992, 1995, 1999) 2 wins in long jump indoor (1991, 1999)