Vlasic delights home crowd with high jump victory
September 02, 2009 00:00:00
Croatia's Blanka Vlasic celebrates winning the women's high jump final competition at IAAF Grand Prix meeting in Zagreb. Vlasic jumped a best of 2.08 metres with world silver medallist Anna Chicherova of Russia a distant second on 1.94m.
ZAGREB, Sep 1 (AFP): Croatia's Blanka Vlasic reproduced her world championships-winning form in front of her home crowd by dominating the women's high jump in the Zagreb Grand Prix meeting here Monday.
Vlasic jumped a best of 2.08 metres with world silver medallist Anna Chicherova of Russia a distant second on 1.94m.
The height Vlasic achieved was a world lead and just one centimetre short of Bulgarian Stefka Kostadinova's world record mark set in Rome back in 1987.
