Presenting Blanka Vlašić – Best Female Athlete in the World

Posted under Female Athletes by Marcus Pottea on April 25th, 2012 10:09 pm

female athletes Blanka Vlašić (born November 8, 1983 in Split) is a Croatian high jumper and current world champion. Her personal best jump at 2.07 m is also the national record and was set on August 07, 2007. Only two women (one indoor and one outdoor) have jumped higher than this.

Blanka was named after Casablanca, a city where her father competed at the 1983 Mediterranean Games around the time of her birth. [1] She became a world champion in 2007 World Championships in Athletics with a jump of 2.05 m. She previously won the high jump bronze medal at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships, and before that she was a double world junior champion.

She competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics without much success, although she was aged just sixteen and twenty at the respective times.

She finished 4th in the high jump final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg earning the distinction of becoming the first athlete not to win a medal with a jump higher than 2 m (she cleared 2.01 m, but she needed more attempts than Bronze Medalist, Kajsa Bergqvist).

Blanka Vlašić is coached by her father Joško, a former decathlete, whose personal best, set in 1984, still stands as the Croatian national record; the two are a rare example of father and daughter simultaneously holding athletics national records.

As of 2007, Vlašić is the world’s top-ranked high jumper, as well as being first in the overall rankings.[2][3]

Vlašić currently has an unbeaten streak of 27 competitions and has had 50 competitions over 2 m, which ranks her third, behind Kajsa Bergqvist (52) and Stefka Kostadinova (30).

Vlašić is known for striking a pose after she clears a height, she first done this in the IAAF World Championships in Osaka 2007.

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World Rankings in Athletics

Women’s Overall Ranking
9 June 2008 (26 May 2008)

1. Blanka VLAŠIĆ CRO 1430 High Jump
2. Meseret DEFAR ETH 1405 5000m
3. Y. ISINBAYEVA RUS 1402 Pole Vault
4. Y. SOBOLEVA RUS 1393 1500m
5. M.Y.JAMAL BRN 1389 1500m

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25 Responses to “Presenting Blanka Vlašić – Best Female Athlete in the World”

  1. best female …
    best female athelete! lol such bs!!1

  2. Stunning woman.
    Stunning woman.

  3. When she dances at …
    When she dances at the end. Priceless.

  4. увек навијам да …
    увек навијам да прескочи, само да бих је видео како ђуска…
    uvijek navijam da preskoči, samo da bih mogao vidjet kak igra…;)

  5. I always wish that …
    I always wish that she flies across the bar…just so i could see her dance!

  6. she looks like …
    she looks like gumby

  7. Weirdest kitchen …
    Weirdest kitchen ive ever seen

  8. good move
    good move

  9. she’s gorgeous!
    she’s gorgeous!

  10. Pretty sure her …
    Pretty sure her father didn’t set his ”personal best” as a Croatian…just sayin’.

  11. Can she grab a 11ft …
    Can she grab a 11ft bball?

  12. LOL….that’s …
    LOL….that’s exactly how she gets into bed every night……no really! o.O

  13. OMG….IS THAT …
    OMG….IS THAT CHARA FROM THE BRUINS?

  14. Great high jumper, …
    Great high jumper, but “best female athlete” ? Don’t think so.

  15. the best video of …
    the best video of this warrior and sexy athlete, congratulations!!

  16. Hey i think that …
    Hey i think that persons name secx8xproductions are if you can not see how beautiful she is,Jajajajajaja I think She it really beautiful and Sexy oh yep

  17. far away from the …
    far away from the best ever – Stefka Kostadinova from Bulgaria

  18. Yeah, right on!
    Yeah, right on!

  19. I’d be more …
    I’d be more interested in what she called you!!??

  20. Nice legs. Shame …
    Nice legs. Shame about her face.

  21. 2:50 That’s what …
    2:50 That’s what I’m talkin about.

  22. and the whole time …
    and the whole time she was getting twice the size of yours you clueless guy. whenever you think your getting one over on woman - they are getting 10 over on you, your just to clueless to know.

  23. she got any naked …
    she got any naked pics?

  24. @SECx…. no, you …
    @SECx…. no, you are not the only one who does not find Blanka attractice.

    Apparently, her mother-in-law feels her son could have done better with the German javeliyn thrower (inspite of her moustache)

  25. The REAL Aeon Flux 
    The REAL Aeon Flux 

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