Blanka Vlasic

Former world high jump champion Blanka Vlasic says she will make a decision 'the day before the Olympics' on whether she is fit to compete at London 2012. Blanka Vlasic would be a massive loss from the Olympics (Picture: Reuters) The 28-year old, who won the world title in 2007 and 2009, and finished second at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, is suffering from an infection after undergoing surgery on her left ankle and heel. 'This whole season, particularly London, is in question,' said the...Read Full Story

 Mariya Kuchina, the inaugural High Jump Youth Olympic champion.Photo: Aleksandr Mantsevichhttp://www.mancevich.ru/         Blanka Vlasic has been the reference of the women's high jump event ever since she won her first senior gold medal of note at 2007 Osaka World Championships.  She is the current World and European titleholder and besides she can claim such astounding statistics as a record 34 competitions winning streak and about one hundred jumps over 2 meters. She has cleared the...Read Full Story

 Mariya Kuchina, the inaugural High Jump Youth Olympic champion.Photo: Aleksandr Mantsevichhttp://www.mancevich.ru/         Blanka Vlasic has been the reference of the women's high jump event ever since she won her first senior gold medal of note at 2007 Osaka World Championships.  She is the current World and European titleholder and besides she can claim such astounding statistics as a record 34 competitions winning streak and about one hundred jumps over 2 meters. She has cleared the...Read Full Story

Don't Miss 20th European Athletics Championships - Day Six 20th European Athletics Championships - Day Four IAAF Diamond League Blanka Vlašić (born November 8, 1983 in Split, Yugoslavia) is a Croatian high jumper and current world champion. Her personal best jump of 2.07 m (also a national record) was set on August 7, 2007. Only two other women (one indoor and one outdoor) have jumped higher than this. She jumped over 2 metre in 49 competitions, which ranks her third, behind Kajsa...Read Full Story

DAEGU, South Korea (Reuters) - Usain Bolt raced to redemption in 19.40 golden seconds on Saturday to retain his world 200 metres title while Anna Chicherova ended Blanka Vlasic's four-year run as high jump world champion."Believe" Bolt mouthed to the cameras as he celebrated his win. Nobody had stopped believing, even after he was disqualified from the 100 metres final last Sunday, but certainly there was a sense that the natural order had been restored.If anyone in athletics can match Bolt...Read Full Story

SPLIT, Croatia (Reuters) - World high jump champion Blanka Vlasic will defend her title despite a hamstring injury which nearly forced her to pull out of the upcoming world championships in the South Korean city of Daegu, she said on Friday."A few days ago I lasted only 24 attempts in practice and decided to pull out of the world championships, but I could only live with my decision for 12 hours," Vlasic told a news conference in her home town."I changed my mind; I am going to the worlds and...Read Full Story

Blanka Vlasic is a Croatian High Jumper. Her personal best jump is 2.07 meters. Only two other women in history have jumped higher than that. In the 2008 Olympics Blanka Vlasic managed to jump as highs as 2.05 meters which put her on second place.Read Full Story

World champion Blanka Vlasic led Europe to victory at the Continental Cup Sunday, but was unable to ride an emotional wave of hometown support in her latest assault on the high jump world record.Vlasic equalled her season-best leap of 2.05 before attempting to clear 2.10m, a centimetre higher than the 23-year-old world mark of Bulgaria's Stefka Kostadionva.But her three attempts all fell short before the slender Croatian collapsed into the arms of her father Josko."Everything I wanted has...Read Full Story

Defending champion Blanka Vlasic sailed through qualification of the women's high jump on the opening morning's competition of the IAAF World Indoor Championships on Friday.The Croatian nailed three jumps, the third at 1.92m, which was good enough for qualification but far from her personal indoor best of 2.05m.Vlasic, who is also world outdoor champion and Olympic silver medallist, will be accompanied in the nine-strong final by Spain's Ruth Beitia and Kazakh Marina Aitova, who both also...Read Full Story

Two-time World champion and 2008 Olympic high jump silver medallist Blanka Vlasic has pulled out of the Millrose Games meet because of an illness, the USATF said on its website.The 26-year-old Croatian was planning to make Friday's Millrose Games her first competition on United States' soil. The USATF did go into details about the illness.The meeting at New York's Madison Square Garden is the first stop of USA Track and Field's Visa Championship Series.Vlasic is the reigning World Indoor...Read Full Story