Magdalena Rauter

{{Short description|Austrian athlete (born 2006)}}

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| nationality = Austrian

| sport = Athletics

| event = Pole Vault

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| pb = Pole Vault: 4.20m (2024)

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{{MedalSport | Women's athletics}}

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{{MedalCompetition|World U20 Championships}}

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Magdalena Rauter (born 3 July 2006) is an Austrian pole vaulter. She became Austrian national champion in 2023. She won the silver medal at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships.{{cite web|title=Magdalena Rauter|accessdate=1 September 2024|url= https://worldathletics.org/athletes/austria/magdalena-rauter-14952022|website=World Athletics}}

==Career==

She competed in multi-events before focusing on pole vault in 2019. As a 15 year-old she cleared a height of 3.80 metres at the Austrian Championships in June 2021, finishing runner-up in the senior championships. Indoors the previous winter, she cleared 3.62 metres. Both marks were Austrian national U16 records.{{cite web|url=https://www.meinbezirk.at/westliches-mittelgebirge/c-sport/drei-leichtathletik-talente-aus-goetzens_a4944769|website=meinbezirk.at|accessdate=1 September 2024|title= Three athletics talents from Götzens|date=November 2, 2021}}

She won the senior Austrian title for the first time in July 2023 in Bregenz, with a clearance of 4.93 metres.{{cite web|url= https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7197237?eventId=10229527|website=World Athletics|accessdate=1 September 2023|title= Austrian Championships|date=8 July 2023}}

She won gold in the triple jump at the 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Maribor in July 2023.{{cite web|url= https://www.eurolympic.org/mountain-biking-makes-eyof-debut-as-italy-top-the-medal-table-after-day-three-in-maribor/ |website=Eurolympic.org|accessdate=1 September 2024|title= MOUNTAIN BIKING MAKES EYOF DEBUT AS ITALY TOP THE MEDAL TABLE AFTER DAY THREE IN MARIBOR |date=27 July 2023}} A photograph of her vaulting taking by Patrick Steiner was named the winner of a Games-long competition photography competition.{{cite web|url= https://www.eurolympic.org/austria-win-eyof-maribor-2023-photograph-contest/|website=Eurolympic.org|accessdate=1 September 2024|title= AUSTRIA WIN EYOF MARIBOR 2023 PHOTOGRAPH CONTEST|date=21 September 2023}}

In May 2024, she came third in Innsbruck in the pole vault Golden Roof Challenge.{{cite web|url= https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1145423/golden-roof-challenge-2024-with-outstand|website=Inside the Games|accessdate=1 September 2024|title= Americans shine in Innsbruck's Golden Roof Challenge|first= Raúl Daffunchio|last= Picazo|date=19 May 2024}} In July 2024, she set a new Austrian U20 national record height of 4.20 metres competing in Rottach-Egern.{{cite web|url=https://www.dasgelbeblatt.de/sport/lokalsport/spitzensport-bei-stabhochsprung-meeting-rottach-egern-93188508.html|website=dasgelbeblatt|accessdate=1 September 2024|title= Olympic anticipation at the pole vault meeting at Tegernsee|date=15 July 2024}}

She won the silver medal at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru in August 2024, clearing 4.15 metres.{{cite web|website=Watch Athletics|accessdate=29 August 2024|url= https://www.watchathletics.com/page/5906/women-s-pole-vault-results-world-athletics-junior-u20-championships-2024|title= Women's Pole Vault Results - World Athletics Junior U20 Championships 2024|date=29 August 2024}}{{cite web|url= https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-u20-championships/lima24/news/report/day-three-afternoon-lima-24-field-kesidis-olivier-haywood-tersek|website=World Athletics|date=30 August 2024|accessdate=30 August 2024|title= Kesidis claims historic hammer gold for Cyprus on day three in Lima}}