Lea Bachmann

Lea Bachmann (born 25 June 1996) is a Swiss pole vaulter. She represented Switzerland at the 2025 World Athletics Championships.[1]

From Basel, she completed a master's degree in law before pursuing a doctorate at the University of Basel. She is also keen swimmer and skier outside of athletics.[2][3]

She has a long-term coaching arrangement with Anatoly Gordienko. Whilst competing in June 2018 for Goldwurstpower she set a new personal best and Basel-Stadt Canton record of 4.30 metres.[4] She competed at the 2019 Summer Universiade in Napoli but her poles arrived late and she had to compete using implements borrowed from a Danish competitor but she qualified for the final and placed ninth overall.[2][5]

She is a member of LAS Old Boys Basel.[6] She cleared 4.35 metres to place second overall at the 2024 Swiss Indoor Athletics Championships in February 2024.[7]

She competed at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy in June 2024 where she cleared a height of 4.40 metres but did not qualify for the final.[8] That month, she set a personal best of 4.50 metres for the pole vault whilst competing at the 2024 Swiss Athletics Championships in Winterthur, placing third overall.[9][10]

The following year, after missing the indoor season due to foot surgery, she won the spring meeting at Schützenmatte with a jump of 4.40 metres in May 2025.[11]

In August 2025, Bachmann jumped 4.58 m for a new personal best whilst competing in Düsseldorf, Germany. [12][9] That month, she secured a win at the international "Sky's the Limit" meet in Zweibrücken, Germany, with a clearance of 4.45 m.[13] With Angelica Moser, and Hanga Klekner she shared the win with 4.35 metres at the 2025 Athletissima in wet conditions in Lausanne on 20 August.[14][15] She placed seventh at the Diamond League Final in Zurich on 28 August.[16] She competed at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025, without advancing to the final.[17][18]