Idea Pieroni
{{Short description|Italian athlete (born 2002)}}
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| event = High jump
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| pb = High jump: 1.93 m (Livorno, 2024)
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Idea Pieroni (born 18 September 2002) is an Italian high jumper. She has won the Italian Athletics Championships indoors and outdoors. She finished in eighth place in the high jump at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Nanjing, China.{{cite web|title= Idea Pieroni|website=World Athletics|accessdate=13 March 2025|url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/italy/idea-pieroni-14765262}}
Career
She is a member of Atletica Virtus Lucca athletics club in Lucca, Tuscany, and Gruppo Marciatori Barga in Barga, Tuscany. She became a member of the Centro Sportivo Carabinieri, the sport section of the Italian armed force Carabinieri, having enlisted in 2020.{{cite web|url= https://www.lagazzettadilucca.it/sport/idea-pieroni-convocata-in-nazionale-assoluta-per-i-campionati-europei-indoor-di-apeldoon|website=Lagazzettadilucca.it|accessdate=13 March 2025|title= Idea Pieroni convocata in nazionale Assoluta per i Campionati europei indoor di Apeldoon|date=26 February 2025}}{{cite web|url= https://www.giornaledibarga.it/2020/12/idea-pieroni-arruolata-nel-c-s-carabinieri-345559/|website= giornaledibarga.it|accessdate=21 April 2025|title= Idea Pieroni enlisted in the CS Carabinieri|date=
December 18, 2020}} Despute this, Pieroni continued to train in Lucca with tutelage by the federal coach Stefano Giardi. She set a personal best in the high jump of 1.90 metres in 2020 at the age of 18 years-old, but was just one centimetre away from breaking the Italian junior indoor record (1.91m).{{cite web|url= https://www.noitv.it/2020/11/idea-pieroni-entra-a-far-parte-del-centro-sportivo-carabinieir-347168/|website=noitv.it|accessdate=22 April 2025|title= Idea Pieroni joins the Carabinieri Sports Center|date=10 November 2020}}
In the summer of 2024 improved her best jump to 1.91 metres, and then later to 1.92 metres whilst competing in Prato, Italy, in July 2024.{{cite web|url= https://www.fidal.it/content/Alto-Pieroni-sale-a-quota-1-92/171805|website=Fidal.it|accessdate=13 March 2025|title= Alto: Pieroni sale a quota 1,92|date=14 July 2024}} She won the high jump competition at the Italian Athletics Championships in La Spezia, in June 2024.{{cite web|url= https://www.noitv.it/2024/06/idea-pieroni-continua-a-volare-ecco-il-titolo-italiano-593222/|website=noitv.it|accessdate=13 March 2025|title= Idea Pieroni continua a volare, ecco il titolo italiano|date=30 June 2024}} She later increased her personal best to 1.93 metres in 2024.{{cite web|url= https://www.noitv.it/2024/11/virtus-in-festa-con-stefano-sottile-e-idea-pieroni-621678/|website=noitv.it|access-date=13 March 2025|title= Virtus in…festa con i campioni Stefano Sottile e Idea Pieroni|date=5 November 2024}}
She won the high jump at the 2025 Italian Indoor Athletics Championships in Ancona, with a height of 1.91 metres.{{cite web|url= https://lavocedilucca.it/post/18105/matteo-oliveri-nel-salto-con-l---asta-e-idea-pieroni-nel-salto-in-alto-campioni-italiani-assoluti-indoor-2025.php|website=Lavocedilucca|accessdate=13 March 2025|title= Matteo Oliveri in pole vault and Idea Pieroni in high jump Italian Absolute Indoor Champions 2025|date=23 Feb 2025}} She was selected for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, but did not progress to the final with her competition ending at 1.89 metres.{{cite web|url= https://www.fidal.it/content/Europei-indoor-39-azzurri-per-Apeldoorn/175815|website=Fidal.it|accessdate=13 March 2025|title= Europei indoor: 37 azzurri per Apeldoorn|date=26 February 2025}}{{cite web|date=7 March 2025|title= Idea Pieroni tradita dall’emozione; addio finale agli euroindoor|url= https://www.noitv.it/2025/03/idea-pieroni-tradita-dallemozione-addio-finale-agli-europei-indoor-650700/ |website=noitv.it|accessdate=13 March 2025}} She was selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China. in March 2025.{{cite web|url=https://www.fidal.it/content/Nanchino-21-azzurri-per-i-Mondiali-indoor/176211|website=Fidal.it|title= Nanchino: 21 azzurri per i Mondiali indoor|accessdate=
13 March 2025}} At the championships also held in March 2025, she finished in eighth place overall with a best clearance of 1.89 metres.{{cite web|url= https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7136586?eventId=10229526|website=World Athletics |title=World Athletics Championships |date=21 March 2025}}
Personal life
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Category:Italian female high jumpers
Category:Athletes from Tuscany
Category:21st-century Italian sportswomen
Category:Italian Athletics Championships winners
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics