Anna Rogowska

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Anna Rogowska (2005)

Anna Rogowska (born May 21, 1981 in Gdynia ) is a Polish pole vaulter . She was world champion in 2009 and third in the 2004 Olympic Games.

At the age of 14 she started this sport for women, which was still unusual at the time. She made the leap into the top of the world in 2003 when she competed in the Polish national dress for the first time at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham and came in sixth. She quickly grew into a competitor of Monika Pyrek , and so one can say that a similar sporting competition between Rogowska and Pyrek is taking place in Poland as in Russia between Svetlana Feofanova and Jelena Isinbayeva .

At the World Championships 2003 in Paris / Saint-Denis Pyrek was able to assert himself with a fourth place compared to the seventh place of Rogowska in the domestic Polish competition. The level of performance of Rogowska got stronger and stronger in the 2004 season, and at the Olympic Games in Athens she also won the bronze medal ahead of Monika Pyrek in fourth.

At the European Indoor Championships in Madrid, Rogowska won silver with 4.75 m behind Issinbajewa and ahead of Pyrek. On July 22, 2005, she improved the Polish record in London to 4.80 m. At this meeting she was second behind Jelena Isinbayeva, who was the first woman to jump over 5.00 m in this competition. With this record she was also considered a contender for a medal at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki. However, it failed at the height of 4.50 m. Isinbayeva became world champion with the new world record height of 5.01 m, and the silver medal went to Monika Pyrek. At the 2006 World Indoor Championships in Moscow, Rogowska won silver. In the summer she was unable to take part in the European Championships in Gothenburg due to an injury . She won bronze at the European Indoor Championships in 2007 .

Rogowska (right) at the 2009 World Championships

Rogowska achieved her greatest success at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, where she won the world title with a jump of 4.75 m ahead of Monika Pyrek and the American Chelsea Johnson. The following year she won the bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships in Doha. In 2011 she became European indoor champion in Paris and improved the Polish record to 4.85 meters. In March 2013 she won the silver medal in the pole vault at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden .

Rogowska is a sports student at the University of Gdansk . With a height of 1.70 m, she has a competition weight of 52 kg.

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SURNAME Rogowska, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish pole vaulter
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Gdynia