{{short description|British long jumper}} {{use dmy dates|date=December 2017}} {{Use British English|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Christina Persighetti<br>née Christina Cops | full_name = | image = | caption = | nationality = British (English) | sport = Athletics | event = Long jump | club = Southend AC | birth_date = {{birth date|1936|7|6|df=yes}} | birth_place = Shoeburyness, Southend-on-Sea, England | death_date = {{death date and age|2012|10|31|1936|7|6|df=yes}} | death_place = Southend-on-Sea, England | height =165 cm | weight =59 kg }}

'''May Christina Persighetti''' née '''Cops''' (6 July 1936 &ndash; 31 October 2012) was a British athlete who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics.<ref name="SportsRef">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pe/christina-persighetti-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418042848/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pe/christina-persighetti-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Christina Persighetti Olympic Results |accessdate=16 December 2017}}</ref>

== Biography == Cops finished third behind Thelma Hopkins in the long jump event at the 1955 WAAA Championships<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000729/19550703/184/0016 |title=Margaret Doubles To It - Loses Record |work=The People |date=3 July 1955 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 February 2025 }}</ref> and third again behind Sheila Hoskin at the 1956 WAAA Championships.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=19 February 2025}}</ref>

Cops married Bernard Persighetti in the spring of 1957<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?r=215608677:4414&d=bmd_1737698379 |title=Marriages |website=Free BMD |access-date=19 February 2025 }}</ref> and competed under her married name thereafter. She became the national long jump champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1957 WAAA Championships.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=19 February 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003359/19570707/213/0013 |title=Schoolgirls Jolt Olympic Jump Star |work=Weekly Dispatch (London) |date=7 July 1957 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=19 February 2025 }}</ref>

At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, she represented Great Britain in the women's long jump competition.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68754 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=19 February 2025}}</ref>

Persighetti finished second behind Mary Rand at the 1961 WAAA Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001816/19610709/027/0027 |title=Britain find a stand-in for Carole - From Australia |work=Birmingham Weekly Mercury |date=9 July 1961 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 February 2025 }}</ref>

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