Anna Giordano Bruno

Anna Giordano Bruno (born 13 December 1980) is a retired Italian track and field athlete who specialised in the pole vault.

[1] Born in San Vito al Tagliamento, Giordano Bruno grew up in northern city of Trieste.

After changing her athletics coach to work with Slovenian Igor Lapajne in 2005, she began to improve and became the Italian indoor pole vault champion and attended the European Cup in 2006, where she finished fifth in the First League competition.

She received an invitation to attend the 2006 European Athletics Championships and finished tenth in the qualifiers with a vault of 4.15 m. She had much improved her personal best mark over the course of 2006, resulting in an Italian record of 4.32 m in Busto Arsizio.

She qualified to represent Italy for the 2009 World Championships in Athletics and just missed out on making the final, recording a mark of 4.50 m and losing out to Kristina Gadschiew on count-back.