Stacy Dragila

Stacy Dragila
nation	United States
birthday	March 25, 1971
place of birth	Auburn
size	172 cm
Weight	62 kg
Career
discipline	Pole vault
Best performance	4.83 m
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 2 × 0 × 0 × Indoor World Cup 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Sydney 2000 Pole vault  World championships gold Seville 1999 Pole vault gold Edmonton 2001 Pole vault  Indoor world championships gold Paris 1997 Pole vault silver Budapest 2004 Pole vault

Stacy Dragila (born March 25, 1971 in Auburn , California ) is a former American athlete . The pole vaulter was an Olympic champion and twice world champion.

Life

Dragila started as a heptathlete until she switched to the then still young women's discipline pole vault. Her first major success was winning the 1997 World Indoor Championships in Paris. At 4.40 meters she set a new indoor world record. In 1999 she won the title outdoors at the World Championships in Seville (ahead of Anshela Balachonowa and Tatiana Grigorieva). Her greatest success is the pole vault victory at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney in front of the Australian Tatiana Grigorieva and the Icelandic Vala Flosadóttir . The following year Dragila became world champion again in Edmonton (ahead of Swetlana Feofanowa and Monika Pyrek ). After the season she was named World Athlete of the Year .

At the World Championships in 2003 Dragila came fourth in Paris and at the World Indoor Championships in 2004 in Budapest she won silver with a new continental record behind Jelena Issinbajewa . In the summer she set her personal best with 4.83 meters, but at the Olympic Games in the same year she did not get beyond the qualification. The same mishap happened to her at the World Championships the following year. After two years of injuries, she returned in 2008 at 4.70 meters but failed to qualify for the Olympics . She had her last international appearance in 2009 at the World Championships in Berlin, where she did not reach the final and then retired from competitive sports.

Between 1999 and 2003 she set five world records and improved by 21 centimeters:

• August 21, 1999: 4.60 m
• July 23, 2000: 4.63 m
• April 28, 2001: 4.70 m
• July 9, 2002: 4.71 m
• June 9, 2003: 4.81 m

Dragila married the American discus thrower Ian Waltz .

Web links

• CV at USA Track & Field
• Stacy Dragila in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Stacy Dragila in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Usain Bolt World Athlete for the fourth time , www.leichtathletik.de November 24, 2012