Silke Spiegelburg
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Born | 17 March 1986 | |||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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Country | Germany | |||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Pole vault | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 6 August 2012. |
Silke Spiegelburg (born 17 March 1986 in
Spiegelburg showed her talent for the event from a young age, winning the
Career
She won the pole vault at the
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
She claimed her first medal at continental level at the
In the 2010 outdoor season Spiegelburg started with a win at the
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
- ^ IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-02-14.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-02-14.
- ^ ""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.
- ^ European Athletics(26 January 2011). Retrieved on 2011-02-14.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-02-14
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-02-14.
- European Athletics(14 February 2011). Retrieved on 2011-02-14.
- ^ "Swiss Timing - Swiss Timing".
External links
Media related to Silke Spiegelburg at Wikimedia Commons
- Silke Spiegelburg at World Athletics
- Silke Spiegelburg at Diamond League
- Silke Spiegelburg at European Athletics (archive)
- Silke Spiegelburg at Olympics.com
- Silke Spiegelburg at Olympic.org (archived)
- Silke Spiegelburg at Olympedia
- Silke Spiegelburg at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Silke Spiegelburg at the Deutscher Leichtathletik-Verband (in German)
- Silke Spiegelburg at the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (in German)
- Athlete portrait at TSV Bayer at the Wayback Machine (archived 19 July 2011) (in German)
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