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...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...
Once Gyorffy closes out her final academic semester—which she must complete after leaving Harvard last fall to compete in the Sydney Olympics—she will have the freedom to build experience in the major international meets. When she placed fifth at the IAAF Indoor World Championships at Lisbon in March at a peak height of 1.93 meters, she placed some of the blame on her failure to adapt to an unexpected ramp that interfered with her approach. At Edmonton, the IAAF reported that a strong headwind, which picked up as the bar was raised...
...suspect [Taylor] is tired from a long year,” Haggerty said. “She had to peak too many times—Indoor Heps, Outdoor Heps, ECACs, NCAAs... Our first competition was Dec. 2, definitely earlier than anyone else in the field. Most people there probably started in May and didn’t run any indoor meets...
Record-breaking performances have become commonplace for Gyorffy ever since she arrived at Harvard. Gyorffy shattered a Heptagonal meet record by jumping 1.91 meters at Indoor Heps during her freshman year and set an ECAC outdoor record with a 1.94-meter jump her sophomore season. At Indoor Heps the following winter, Gyorffy cleared an NCAA indoor record 1.97 meters, as Harvard won its first meet title in 10 years. Her personal outdoor best before last week’s performance was a 1.96-meter leap at Princeton...
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...