Magdalena Rauter
Magdalena Rauter is an Austrian pole vaulter. She became Austrian national champion in 2023. She won the silver medal at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships.
Career
She competed in multi-events before focusing on pole vault in 2019. As a 15 year-old she cleared a height of 3.80 metres at the Austrian Championships in June 2021, finishing runner-up in the senior championships. Indoors the previous winter, she cleared 3.62 metres. Both marks were Austrian national U16 records.She won the senior Austrian title for the first time in July 2023 in Bregenz, with a clearance of 4.93 metres.
She won gold in the pole vault at the 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Maribor in July 2023. A photograph of her vaulting taking by Patrick Steiner was named the winner of a Games-long competition photography competition.
In May 2024, she came third in Innsbruck in the pole vault Golden Roof Challenge. In July 2024, she set a new Austrian U20 national record height of 4.20 metres competing in Rottach-Egern.
She won the silver medal at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru in August 2024, clearing 4.15 metres.