Orla Venter

Orla Venter
nation	Namibia
birthday	1st January 1976 (age 44)
place of birth	South West Africa
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	1.75 m
status	resigned
End of career	July 21, 1994
Medal table
U20 African Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Junior African Championships gold Algiers 1994 1.68 m
last change: July 6, 2020

Orla Venter (born January 1, 1976 in South West Africa ) is a former Namibian athlete who specializes in the high jump .

Athletic career

Orla Venter gained her first international experience in 1992 when she was eliminated from the qualification at the Junior World Championships in Seoul with a skipped 1.70 m. The following year she took part in the World Championships in Stuttgart and was eliminated from the qualification there with 1.75 m. In 1994 she won the Junior African Championships in Algiers for the first time with a height of 1.68 m and thus qualified again for the Junior World Championships in Lisbon , but did not reach the final there with 1.75 m and then finished at the age of only 18 Years of her career as an athlete.

Personal best

• High jump: 1.75 m, August 19, 1993 in Stuttgart

Web links

• Orla Venter in the database of World Athletics (English)