Kaire Leibak

Kaire Leibak (2010)

Kaire Leibak (born May 21, 1988 in Tartu ) is a former Estonian athlete .

Athletic career

In 2005 Leibak took part in the Youth World Championships in Marrakech . There she won the silver medal in the triple jump and took seventh place in the long jump .

A year later she won the gold medal in the triple jump at the Junior World Championships in Beijing . In this competition she jumped the Estonian national record with 14.43 m. She also won the gold medal at the 2007 European Junior Championships in Hengelo . This year she also competed in her first international senior competition at the IAAF Super Grand Prix . She was eighth at the Athletissima in Lausanne and seventh at the Herculis in Monaco .

In her first major international competition, the Indoor World Championships in 2008 in Valencia , Spain , Leibak was only able to achieve 17th place in her qualifying group with a poor performance of 13.32 m and thus not qualify for the final of the top twelve athletes. But she succeeded in doing this a few months later at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. With a width of 14.13 m, the 20-year-old athlete took tenth place in the Olympic triple jump final. At the European Indoor Championships in Turin in 2009 , Leibak missed the final with 13.99 m. With a season best of 14.20 m, she qualified for the 2009 World Championships in Berlin , which she had to cancel at short notice due to an injury.

Personal best

• Triple jump: 14.43 m (+0.6 m / s), August 17, 2006, Beijing ( Estonian record )
• Long jump: 6.40 m (+1.6 m / s), July 5, 2005, Lignano Sabbiadoro

Web links

• Kaire Leibak in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Kaire Leibak in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ sportresult.com, Results Triple Jump Women (July 21, 2007)
2. ↑ Eesti sportlased Berliini MM-il . sport.err.ee. Retrieved on August 22, 2009.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.