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...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...
...high jump, the margins between the top athletes are so minimal that anything can happen,” Bergqvist said...
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...
...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...
After two years of falling short of NCAA titles against the likes of Bergqvist and U.S. Olympian Erin Aldrich of Texas, Gyorffy broke through for her first NCAA title with a 1.94-meter jump at the indoor championships in 2000. She closed out her Harvard track career by winning her only NCAA outdoor title with a performance of 1.91 meters at Eugene, Ore. this past June...