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Light the Torch – Beijing Olympics and Other Olympic News

Athletes to Watch: Blanka Vlasic

by Sandy Mitchell on August 4th, 2008

ISTAF Golden League

The woman to beat in the women’s high jump competition is not from the US or Russia or China. She’s a 24-year-old Croatian woman, Blanka Vlasic. Vlasic is named for the Moroccan port city of Casablanca, where her father competed in the 1983 Mediterranean Games at the time of her birth. She’s the current World Champion and 2008 World Indoor Champion.

Vlasic, 24, competed in the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games, but failed to medal.

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POSTED IN: Beijing 2008, Track and Field

1 opinion for Athletes to Watch: Blanka Vlasic

  • ENDALE JABIR
    Aug 27, 2008 at 9:01 am

    FOR ME BLANKA IS THE BEST ATHLETE OF THE SEASON.I DON’T KNOW WHY SHE IS 2ND IN THE COMPETETION @ THE BEIGING OLYMPICS.

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