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 and won the silver medal at the 1991 Mediterranean Games in Athens, Greece.
She retained her national outdoor title the following year.
Uccheddu made her Olympic debut at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. The women's long jump took place on 6 and 7 August 1992 at the Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc. In qualifying, Uccheddu recorded a jump of 6.6 m which was ultimately not enough to advance to the final and she finished 21st overall.
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 Representing 1990European ChampionshipsSplit, Yugoslavia9th6.58 m (wind: -0.4 m/s)1991World Indoor ChampionshipsSeville, Spain7th6.58 mMediterranean GamesAthens, Greece 2nd6.52 m1993World ChampionshipsStuttgart, Germany 12th 6.38 m1994European Indoor ChampionshipsParis, France 4th6.69 mEuropean ChampionshipsHelsinki, Finland13th (q)6.37 m (wind: -0.1 m/s)1995World ChampionshipsGothenburg, Sweden 5th6.76 m
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)
See also Women's long jump Italian record progression Italian all-time top lists - Long jump
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