Britta Bilač

Britta Bilač (* 4. December 1968 in Saalfeld / Saale as Britta Vörös ) is a former Slovenian high jumper .

career

Vörös was the last indoor champion in the GDR in the high jump in 1990 with 1.91 m. At the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow she won silver behind Heike Henkel with 1.94 m .

In November 1991 she married the Slovenian long jumper Borut Bilač . From the following season she started for Slovenia.

1992 followed a fourth place at the European Indoor Championships in Genoa, 15th place at the Olympic Games in Barcelona . The following year she won the Mediterranean Games and was eleventh at the World Championships in Stuttgart .

In 1994 she was first seventh at the European Indoor Championships in Paris and then won at the European Championships in Helsinki with a personal best of 2.00 m gold. At the World Indoor Championships in Barcelona in 1995 , she came silver behind Alina Astafei and ahead of Heike Henkel.

In 1996 she was ninth at the Olympic Games in Atlanta and in 1997 seventh at the World Championships in Athens .

In 1992, 1993 and 1997 she became the Slovenian outdoor champion and in 1993 indoor.

Britta Bilač is 1.81 m tall and weighed 62 kg at competition times. In 1994 she was voted Slovenian Sportswoman of the Year .

Personal best

• High jump: 2.00 m, August 14, 1994, Helsinki
  • Hall: 2.00 m, February 9, 1994, Frankfurt

literature

• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005. 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 (published by Deutsche Leichtathletik Promotion- und Projektgesellschaft )

Web links

• Britta Bilač in the database of World Athletics (English)

Footnotes

1. ↑ gbrathletics: Slovenian Championships
2. ↑ gbrathletics: Slovenian Indoor Championships