| Magdalena Rauter | |
| Nationality: | Austrian |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | Pole Vault |
| Birth Date: | 3 July 2006 |
| Pb: | Pole Vault: 4.20m (2024) |
Magdalena Rauter (born 3 July 2006) is an Austrian pole vaulter. She became Austrian national champion in 2023. She won the silver medal at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships.[1]
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 championhips. Indoors the previous winter, she cleared 3.62 metres. Both marks were Austrian national U16 records.[2]
She won the senior Austrian title for the first time in July 2023 in Bregenz, with a clearance of 4.93 metres.[3]
She won gold in the triple jump at the 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Maribor in July 2023.[4] A photograph of her vaulting taking by Patrick Steiner was named the winner of a Games-long competition photography competition.[5]
In May 2024, she came third in Innsbruck in the pole vault Golden Roof Challenge.[6] In July 2024, she set a new Austrian U20 national record height of 4.20 metres competing in Rottach-Egern.[7]
She won the silver medal at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru in August 2024, clearing 4.15 metres.[8] [9]
She is from Götzens.[10] Both her parents were successful snowboarders, with her mother Christine world champion in parallel slalom.[11]