2019 The Match Presser: RunBlogRun interviews Mariya Lasitskene, two time World Champion, high jump (from the RunBlogRun Archives)

Originally posted Sept. 8, 2019, at The MATCH

Reposted July 27, 2022

Mariya Lasitkene won the Tokyo Olympics, but due to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, World Athletics did not let her compete, or any other Russian or Belarussian athletes compete, in the 2022 World Athletics Championships.

Previous story lead:

Mariya Lasitskene is the genius of her event, the high jump. Elegant, focused, and extremely competitive, Lasistekene has gone 2.06m this year, and she is without peers at this time. Can she get the world record? We will just have to wait and see!

Mariya cleared 2 meters seven times in her ten competitions in 2019. Her best in 2019: A 2.06m on June 20, and a 2.04 on June 30.

Mariya Lasitskene, Lausanne 2019, photo by PhotoRun.net

Our interview was relaxed, even with Piotr Lisek photo bombing Mariya Lasitsekene and her translator, Elizaveta Gordeevar, the Media Director for The Match and the Belarussian Federation.

Author

Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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