Annika Becker

Annika Becker medal table
Pole vaulter
Germany
World championships
silver	2003 Paris	4.70 m

Annika Becker , married Annika Lang , (born November 12, 1981 in Rotenburg ad Fulda ) is a former German athlete who was active in the pole vault and long jump . She ended her extremely successful career in pole vault in 2004 after a serious training accident.

Career

Annika Becker grew up in the Weiterode district of Bebra and trained at the sports boarding school in Bad Sooden-Allendorf until she graduated from high school , as the German national coach for pole vaulting, Thomas Weise, works as a trainer there in the boarding school.

In 1997 she won the European Junior Championships in Ljubljana . At the 1999 European Junior Championships in Riga she won the silver medal. Becker trained at the Erfurt LAC and held the German record in the pole vault with 4.77 m from July 7, 2002 to July 12, 2011 . In 2001 and 2002 she was German champion.

At the 2003 World Championships she won the silver medal in the pole vault behind Russian Swetlana Feofanova (gold) and ahead of Russian Jelena Issinbajewa (bronze).

In a serious training accident in 2004, the stick broke when jumping. She landed on the mat so unhappily that her neck buckled and she was on the verge of paralysis. That is why she decided in the same year to end her career as a pole vaulter. She then changed discipline and achieved third place in the long jump at the 2005 German Championships indoors and sixth outdoors.

Web links

• Annika Becker in the database of World Athletics (English)
• World Cup history: what is actually ... Annika Becker?

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Annika Becker's 4.77 meter jump: A championship record comes of age. German Athletics Association , July 7, 2020, accessed on July 9, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Long jump start as a new attempt to make a difficult comeback ( memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Schwäbische Post, February 21, 2005