Blanka Vlasic 208 - High Jump Women

vinovo.magnify.net - Blanka Vlasic VIDEOS Zagreb, Croatia For Blanka Vlasic, theres no place like home. The two-time World champion capped the finest series of her career with a sensational 2.08m leap to become the second highest jumper of all-time at the Zagreb Grand Prix on Monday (31). The Croatian heroines leap, which came on her first attempt, capped a thoroughly entertaining edition of the annual Zagreb meeting, perhaps the finest in its 59 years. Blanka Vlasic new record - 208 cm IAAF meeting zagreb While Vlasic clearly rose to the occasion, others could not. Anna Chicherova, the Berlin silver medallist who jumped her 2.04m PB here last year, topped out at 1.94m to finish a distant second. It was standing room only at the stadium again this year, largely because of Vlasic. How devoted are some of the popular jumpers fans? Andra Cojocaru, a 13-year-old national age group champion from the eastern Romanian city of Bacau, made a 17-hour trek with her mother, father and brother to witness her hero jump. Picking up where he left off in Berlin, World Hammer throw champion Primoz Kozmus dominated the competition from the second round. After a foot foul on his first throw, the 29-year-old Slovenian reached 80.35m in the second to add 31 centimetres to the meet record set by Krisztian Pars a year ago. It was more than enough for the victory Pars was well back in second with a 79.18m best effort but Kozmus was just warming up. After a lacklustre 78.49m in the third round, he ...