The women’s high jump at last March’s European Indoor Championships was an amazing performance, the home crowd in Goteborg was rewarded with the silver and bronze medals for Sweden.
This year’s shortened European season will feature a high jump with Blanka Vlasic, Emma Green Tregaro and Ruth Beitia.
Should be a great battle…
VLASIC FOR GOTEBORG
GOTHENBURG (SWE): Sweden’s Emma Green Tregaro will take on European indoor and outdoor champion Ruth Beitia of Spain and Croatia’s 2 time World champion Blanka Vlasic in the women’s high jump in Gothenburg on February 15, reports gp.se. This meet will have a special women high jump. When confirmed most probably the season opener for Vlasic, Green will begin at the Moravia High Jump Tour in Czech Republic end of January and Ruth Beitia plans to start in Bordeaux on January 26.
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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.
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