Hanne Haugland

Hanne Haugland (born December 14, 1967 in Haugesund ) is a former Norwegian high jumper .

Hanne Haugland comes from a talented family. Her grandfather Eugen Haugland was fourth in the triple jump at the European Athletics Championships in 1946 . Her father Terje Haugland was eleventh in the long jump at the 1969 European Championships . Hanne Haugland did not jump as far as her ancestors, but higher.

In 1989, Hanne Haugland came second at the European Indoor Championships with 1.96 m in the high jump behind Alina Astafei , who started for Romania , who also jumped 1.96 m, but had fewer failed attempts. In 1990 Haugland was fourth at the European Indoor Championships with 1.91 m. At the 1990 European outdoor championships, she finished eighth with 1.89 m.

After finishing ninth at the 1993 World Championships with 1.88 m and fifth at the 1994 European Championships with 1.93 m, Hanne Haugland jumped over 2.00 m indoors for the first time in 1995. At the 1995 World Championships , she jumped sixth with 1.96 m. In 1996 she reached the final at the Olympic Games , but 1.96 m was only eighth place.

1997 was the year of Hanne Haugland. She won bronze at the World Indoor Championships with 2.00 m. Bulgarian Stefka Kostadinowa won gold with 2.02 m and Inha Babakowa from Ukraine won silver with 2.00 m . At the open-air world championships in Athens, Hanne Haugland 1.99 m was enough to win the world title ahead of Inha Babakowa and the Russian Olga Kaliturina , who both won silver with 1.96 m. Three days after her victory in Athens, Hanne Haugland jumped 2.01 m at the Weltklasse Zürich meeting . This Norwegian record was not beaten in the ten years that followed. In 1997 she was voted Norway's Sportswoman of the Year and won the Aftenposten gold medal .

After 1997, Hanne Haugland did not reach a grand finale.

Hanne Haugland is 1.83 m tall and weighed 65 kg at competition times.

literature

• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 1998. Surbiton 1998, ISBN 1-899807-03-9
• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896–1996 Track and Fields Athletics. Berlin 1999 (published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV )

Web links

• Hanne Haugland in the database of World Athletics (English)