Valentina Savva

Valentina Savva (Greek: Βαλεντίνα Σάββα; born 17 May 2005) is a Cypriot hammer thrower. She is the national record holder at the discipline.^[1]

She has a Ukrainian mother and a Cypriot father. She lived in Larnaca, Cyprus, and later attended the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States.^[2]

She won a gold medal at the 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships in Jerusalem.^[3] She placed fourth at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia.^[4] Later that year, she was nominated by the European Athletics Association (EAA) Awards in the Women's Rising Star category.^[5]

She won a gold medal at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem. ^[6] She was a silver medalist at the 2023 Games of the Small States in Malta.^[7]

In early 2024, she changed coaching set-up from Giorgos Aresti, who she had known from the age of 12 years-old, to national coach Constantinos Stathelakos, however a few days later Stathelakos died in a road traffic accident in South Africa where the team was out for winter training. She worked later that year with Paraskevi Theodorou, Stathelakos’ widow.^[2] She was a bronze medalists at the Balkan Athletics Championships in İzmir, Turkey in May 2024.^[8] She was a silver medalist at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru with a throw of 67.21 metres.^[9][10]

She qualified for the 2025 NCAA Championships in the United States with a winning throw of 67.75 metres at the West Regionals finals.^[11] At the NCAA Championships in June, she qualified for the final in Eugene, Oregon, placing tenth in the hammer throw with a best effort of 66.84 metres.^[12] She threw a new national record in the hammer throw of 69.56m at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships Second Division in Maribor in June 2025.^[13] She was selected to represent Cyprus at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway, winning the bronze medal with a national record of 70.22m.^[14][15][16] In September 2025, she competed in the hammer throw at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan.^[17]