Anna Chicherova
Tschitscherowa at the World Championships 2011 in Daegu
Anna Vladimirovna Tschitscherowa (Russian Анна Владимировна Чичерова, English transcription Anna Chicherova, . Born July 22, 1982 in Yerevan ) is a Russian high jumper who was in both 2007 and 2009 Vice World Champion and 2011 World Champion. She is 1.80 m tall, weighs 57 kg and the competition starts for CSKA Moscow.
Life
It was World Junior Champion in 1999 when she won in Bydgoszcz 1.89 m. At the Junior World Championships in 2000 in Santiago de Chile Tschitscherowa was placed fourth with 1.85 meters, Blanka Vlasic 1.91 m. At the 2001 European Junior Championships in Grosseto she won with 1.90 m in second place behind the Romanian Ramona Pop jumped 1.92 m.
Your first medal in the senior category, she won the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham in 2003. Behind Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE ) and her compatriot Jelena Jelessina she received for 1.99 m bronze. At the World Athletics Championships in Paris in 2003 she won with 1.95 m in sixth place. At the 2004 World Indoor Championships in Budapest, she jumped 2.00 meters and won silver behind Jelena Slessarenko 2.04 m. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens Tschitscherowa jumped over 1.96 m and finished sixth.
Anna Tschitscherowa succeeded at the European Indoor Championships in Madrid in 2005, the only jump over 2.01 m; she won gold before the Spaniard Ruth Beitia (1.99 m). In Helsinki at the World Championships in 2005 it was 1.96 m Fourth at the same level for the bronze medal by Emma Green. A relatively easy win Tschitscherowa with 1.90 m gold at the Universiade 2005 in Izmir. At home in Moscow took place in early 2006, the World Indoor Championships held Tschitscherowa but was sidelined due to injury. Also at the European Championships 2006 in Gothenburg Anna Tschitscherowa was not yet back in the form of past years; with 1.95 m she placed seventh.
In the European Indoor Championships in 2007, the Russian finished with 1.92 m in seventh place. In the outdoor season 2007, she was then returned to its former strength. In Osaka at the 2007 World Championships, she jumped 2.03 m then- personal best and won silver behind Blanka Vlasic.
Beijing 2008 Anna Tschitscherowa launched for the second time in the Olympics. This time she jumped as one of four athletes over two meters, the 2.03m, a personal best, she jumped at the first attempt, after she failed but three times in the victory height of 2.05 m. The gold medal won surprisingly Tia Hellebaut before the big favorite Blanka Vlasic. Behind the Russian won the bronze medal.
2010 Tschitscherowa mother of a daughter. A year later she won at the World Championships in Daegu with 2.03m surprisingly gold, before the big favorite Blanka Vlasic who jumped the same height. In the same year they screwed their personal best to 2.07 m, which she brought to the third rank of the best all-time list.
In 2012 she became Olympic champion in London. With 2.05 skipped meters, it took two centimeters ahead of the second placed Brigetta Barrett (USA) the gold medal.