Career
Her personal best of 4.21 metres, set in 2006, is the Tunisian record for the event. Balti cleared four metres for the first time in 2000 and went on claim the gold medal at the 2000 African Championships in Athletics. From 2001 onwards she based her training in Toulouse in France.
She was ninth at the 2001 Francophone Games and sixth at the 2001 Mediterranean Games.
A personal best of 4.10 metres at the 2002 IAAF World Cup was also an African junior record mark. She vaulted 4.20 metres indoors in 2003 (a Tunisian record) and matched that height outdoors in 2004.
She was again chosen as Africa"s representative at the 2006 IAAF World Cup and she finished in seventh. Her 2007 season was curtailed and she dropped out of the sport altogether, not returning until the 2012 season.