Champion for a decade | Klodeta Gjini, the Albanian “Kostandinova”!
Prologue!
We are not exaggerating if we say that Albania has also had its own “Kostadinova”, without comparing her to the great Stefka, but for small country like Albania, Klodeta Gjini has been such.
“Merited Master of Sports”
Birthdate: Tirana on August 20, 1964.
Discipline: “High Jump”
Klodeta is the champion of Albania for
10 consecutive years from 1980 – 1990.
Teams:
1978-1992 “17 Nentori” – Tirana;
1992-1993 Assi Banca Toscana Firenze.
1980 – 1991 Representative of the Albanian national team.
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Klodeta first came into contact with sports and athletics in 1973 with sports classes at the “20th Anniversary of Liberation” school and soon realized that the high jump was her future in athletics: in that regard, during her sports career for ten years in a row she was national champion (from 1980 to 1990).
She also made progress in national records, on August 21, 1989, in Tirana, she passed the bar placed at m. 1.92, an achievement that up to today is the Albanian national record
She is the only albanian girl to have represented the national colors at the first World Athletics Championships in 1983, held in Helsinki, Finland, from August 7 to 14. During her sports militancy she also achieved good results in pentathlon and heptathlon. Member of the Albanian athletics team, from 1980 to 1991 she participated in international activities climbing the podium repeatedly,
From 1973 to 1992 she was a member of the sports club “17 Nëntori”, the representative team of the city of Tirana, and after her transfer to Italy in the 1992-93 season was a member of Assi Banca Toscana team
Graduated from the University of Tirana, Faculty of Economics, in 1986, General Mercologist. In 1992, graduated from the Higher Institute of Physical Culture “Vojo Kushi” in the Teaching branch.
At the University of Bologna in 2006, Gjini graduated in movement sciences (first level) and in 2008, completed her master’s degree (second level diploma) in the prevention and treatment of diseases through adapted gymnastics.
Klodeta is a physical education teacher for middle and high schools in Bologna, Italy. She continues to contribute to the sports sector through her collaboration with CUSB, the sports society of the University of Bologna.
Above is a chronicle dedicated to the Albanian champion:
Pjerin Bj
New York: April 10, 2025
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