Silke Spiegelburg

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Silke Spiegelburg
Spiegelburg during the 2013 World Championships
Personal information
Born (1986-03-17) 17 March 1986 (age 38)
Height1.72 m (5 ft 7+12 in)
Weight63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
Country Germany
SportAthletics
EventPole vault
Medal record
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2010 Barcelona Pole vault
European Indoor Championships
Silver medal – second place
2009 Torino
Pole vault
Silver medal – second place
2011 Paris
Pole vault
Updated on 6 August 2012.

Silke Spiegelburg (born 17 March 1986 in

World Championships in Athletics. She is a European silver medallist
in the event both indoors and outdoors.

Spiegelburg showed her talent for the event from a young age, winning the

German indoor record
with her mark of 4.76 metres.

Career

She won the pole vault at the

world junior record mark in the pole vault in August 2005, clearing 4.48 m in Münster.[2]

Spiegelburg reached the final at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships and went on to finish sixth in the pole vault final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. She twice achieved marks of 4.56 m on the European circuit that season and came sixth at the end of year 2006 IAAF World Athletics Final. In 2007, she improved her indoor best to 4.50 m and came fifth at the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships. She also made her debut at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, but did not get past the qualifying stage. She ended the year with a personal best of 4.60 m at the 2007 IAAF World Athletics Final.[1]

Her 2008 was somewhat of a breakthrough as she reached 4.70 m for the first time in July 2008 at the

Yvonne Buschbaum.[3] She came seventh at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and equalled her outdoor best at the 2008 IAAF World Athletics Final to take the gold medal.[1]

She claimed her first medal at continental level at the

Memorial van Damme, taking third place,[6] but managed only sixth at the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Final.[1]

In the 2010 outdoor season Spiegelburg started with a win at the

2010 IAAF Diamond League. She was narrowly defeated by Svetlana Feofanova at the 2010 European Team Championships, but then beat Lisa Ryzih to claim another national title at the German Championships. She was behind Feofanova at the 2010 European Athletics Championships, but was also ahead of Ryzih, and she left the competition with a European silver medal.[4] She also improved her outdoor best to 4.71 m that season.[1]

She started her 2011 season well with a new national indoor record of 4.76 m at the

At the 2011 European Team Championship she improved her outdoor personal best to 4.75 metres.[8]

At the Diamond League Meeting in Monaco (20 July 2012) she jumped 4,82 metres breaking the German Record.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London (XXX Olympic Games) she finished in 4th position with 4.65 metres (6 August 2012).

See also

References

  1. ^
    IAAF
    . Retrieved on 2011-02-14.
  2. IAAF
    . Retrieved on 2011-02-14.
  3. ^ ""Ewige" Bestenliste der deutschen Leichtathletik" ["Eternal" list of the best in German athletics] (PDF). leichtathletik.de (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2011-02-14.
  4. ^
    European Athletics
    (26 January 2011). Retrieved on 2011-02-14.
  5. IAAF
    . Retrieved on 2011-02-14
  6. IAAF
    . Retrieved on 2011-02-14.
  7. European Athletics
    (14 February 2011). Retrieved on 2011-02-14.
  8. ^ "Swiss Timing - Swiss Timing".

External links

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