Becker to Return with Long Jump

[rainbowgirl28]

I hope she decides to come back to pole vaulting someday


http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=131072/newsId=27734.html

Becker to return with Long Jump

Monday 1 November 2004

Annika Becker will be concentrating on her former passion, the Long Jump, when she returns to action for the start of the indoor season.

The German Pole Vault record holder with 4.77m (2002) missed much of this year with a back injury after a bad fall in February and has now decided to keep away from heights as she continues her recovery.

The 22-year-old's last long jump of 6.15metres is her personal best and she is aiming to improve on that when the indoor season begins this winter.

"You've got to set yourself some sort of targets to train for," she told leichtathletik.de . And mine are all about having fun and being happy.''

Becker has already enjoyed some success in the sand pit, coming second in the 2002 German U23 Championships in Hamburg with a leap of 6.07m.


PA International for the IAAF

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http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=28812.html

Becker: Pole vaulting career is on a hold, but not finished
Tuesday 8 March 2005


Germany’s Annika Becker did not make it to the European Indoor Championships that took place in Madrid last weekend. But the recent career of one of the women’s Pole Vault’s greatest talents is one of the epic stories of this indoor season.

After a shocking accident in training a year ago the 23 year-old switched from the Pole Vault to the Long Jump in this indoor season. And she has not yet decided when it will be time for her to return to her former specialty.


World Championships silver


Little more than one and a half years ago she had set the highlight of the season for German athletics. At the IAAF World Championships in Paris Annika Becker won a silver medal by jumping 4.70 m. And she placed herself in between the Russians Swetlana Feofanowa and Yelena Isinbajewa, beating the later one who meanwhile dominates the event.


Becker’s success in Paris had come as some relief for German athletics who had been desperately waiting for such a show of form. And the young pole vaulter’s personality was exactly what athletics in Germany needed so badly. She is open-minded, has a naturalness and shows no strange star like behaviours. In Paris she had been asked is she sometimes is afraid of taking a jump. “I am not afraid but I have respect – you can not be afraid if you do pole vaultingâ€Â

[VaultBrad]

her LJ PR is bubka's PV WR

interesting

[rainbowgirl28]

Still long jumping...

http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=29400.html

Annika Becker still long jumping in Wesel

Annika Becker, World Pole Vault silver medallist, is still long jumping. After a training accident during the 2004 indoor season she had only a couple of pole vaults last summer. Now she has opened her outdoor season in Wesel (Nortwestern Germany) on Sunday (16th May) again as a long jumper. Becker who had already been long jumping during the indoor season this year, said that it is not the end of her pole vaulting career.

Becker reached sixth place with 6.25m, while Sofia Schulte won with 6.53m and Urszula Gutowicz-Westhof was second (6.50m). Bianca Kappler was third with 6.46m.