Word: babakova
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South Africa’s Hestrie Cloete won her nation’s only gold medal of the championships after clearing heights of 1.85, 1.90, 1.94 and 1.97 meters on consecutive jumps and then two meters on her second try. Ukraine’s 34-year-old champion Inha Babakova matched Cloete’s performance at two meters but was left with silver because she needed two attempts at 1.97 meters. Sweden’s Kajsa Bergqvist, the 2001 IAAF indoor champion whose peak performance was 1.97 meters on the day, earned the bronze...
Gyorffy was actually ahead of the eventual winner Cloete on the season performance list going into the competition, as only she, Babakova, Bergqvist and fourth-place finisher Veneva Venelina of Bulgaria had cleared two meters in 2001. She had achieved the Hungarian record height of two meters at Hungarian Nationals two weeks before the World Championships...
...worlds by competing in several IAAF meets in Europe throughout the summer. Her best place came at the Norwich Great Britain Grand Prix meet, the last IAAF Grand Prix meet before the championships, in which she finished fourth. The placings at that London meet—Cloete in first, Babakova in second and Bergqvist in third—perfectly matched the medals awarded in the World Championships...
Only two athletes in the world—Venelina Veneva of Bulgaria and Inha Babakova of the Ukraine—have jumped higher than Gyorffy this year, with season-bests of 2.04 and 2.03 meters, respectively. Olympic bronze medallist Kajsa Bergqvist of Sweden, who competed collegiately against Gyorffy at SMU, is the only other athlete to clear two meters this season...
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