Styliana Ioannidou
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| Born | 17 December 2003 (age 22) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | High Jump | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | High Jump: 1.91m (Bergen, 2025) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Styliana Ioannidou (Greek: Στυλιάνα Ιωαννίδου; born 17 December 2003) is a Cypriot high jumper. She is a multiple time national champion, and represented Cyprus at the 2025 World Championships. In 2021, she became the first Cypriot to win a medal at the World Athletics U20 Championships.[1]
Career
In 2019, Ioannidou won the bronze medal in the high jump at the 2019 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan.[2] The following year, she won the gold medal at the Indoor Balkan U20 Games in Istanbul, with a national youth record jump of 1.82 metres. In August 2020, she became the senior Cypriot national women's champion, with a jump of 1.84m, breaking her own under-18 national record in Nicosia.[3]
In February 2021, she retained her indoor title at the Balkan Indoor Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, breaking the championship record with a jump of 1.84 metres.[4] Ioannidou placed sixth as a 17 year-old at the 2021 European Athletics U20 Championships in July 2021 in Tallinn, Estonia.[5] The following month, she won the bronze medal at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya, with a jump of 1.87 metres. It was the first Cypriot medal ever won at the championships and equalled the under-20 Cypriot record set in 2013 by Leontia Kallenou.[6][7][8]
Ioannidou jumped a personal best 1.91 metres to place fourth overall at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway.[9][10] That summer, she also placed fourth at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Bochum, Germany in the women's high jump.[11] She represented Cyprus in September at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan.[12][13]
Personal life
She studied at the Laniteion Lyceum in Limassol.[3]
References
- ^ "Styliana Ioannidou". World Athletics. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
- ^ "15th European Youth Olympic Festival". World Athletics. 22 July 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
- ^ a b "Styliana Ioannidou, a graduate aiming for... Atlanta". Koeas.org.cy. October 2, 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
- ^ "Styliana Ioannidou from Cyprus wins "Gold" at the Balkan Championship for the 2nd time". Hellas Journal. 13 Feb 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
- ^ "She's at the top and she proved it! Styliana Ioannidou is the sixth best European U20 in the high jump". actioninsports.com. 18 Jul 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
- ^ "World Athletics U20 Championships". World Athletics. 18 August 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
- ^ "Cyprus secures its first ever medal in World Athletics U20 Championships". Philenews. 23 August 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
- ^ "Nairobi: Ioannidou wins first medal for Cyprus, equaling U20 record". Stivoz.gr. 22 August 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
- ^ Broadbent, Chris (19 Jul 2025). "Double gold for Serbia! Vilagoš and Topić triumph at Bergen 2025". European Athletics. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
- ^ "European Athletics U23 Championships". World Athletics. 17 July 2025. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
- ^ "FISU World University Games". World Athletics. 27 July 2025. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
- ^ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 21 Sep 2025. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
- ^ "Tokyo 2025 World Cup: Girls for... applause!". Sportime.Sigmalive.com. 22 September 2025. Retrieved 29 December 2025.