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Sophomore Kart Siilats, a first-year transfer student from Estonia, captured the NCAA high jump title with a season best 1.85-meter jump at Arkansas on Friday afternoon...
Siilats did not have the smoothest ride to the top of the competition. As in all high jump competitions, the failure to clear any given increment of the bar three times means elimination. Siilats twice needed a third try just to make it to the 1.83-meter height...
...jumpers who had missed at previous heights, the United States' Amy Acuff and former SMU standout Kajsa Bergqvist, surpassed the 1.96-meter bar to leave Gyorffy tied for fifth place. Bergqvist went on to clear two more heights to win the competition at 2.00 meters, while Acuff placed fourth...
Although the 1.93-meter height was not quite Gyorffy's best overall performance, it was her best showing in a major international competition. In the 1997 Indoor World Championships in Paris, her best height was 1.80 meters. At the 2000 Sydney Games, she peaked at 1.89 meters...
...NCAAs, Siilats will be aiming to make up for Gyorffy's absence. Siilats started off her Harvard career with a 1.84-meter jump against Boston College in December--good enough for fifth on the NCAA performance lists. Siilats was an Estonian national champion before transferring to Harvard this year. Since that first Crimson meet, Siilats has come close to matching that season-best height, clearing the 1.83 bar at HYPs and the 1.78 bar at the Millrose Games...