Anna Rogowska

Anna Rogowska (born 21 May 1981 in Gdynia ) is a Polish pole vaulter. She was 2009 World Champion and 2004 Olympic bronze medalist.

At the age of 14, she began the then unusual sport for women. Taking the Plunge into the world top she made in 2003, when she took in the Polish National Dress at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham for the first time and was sixth. It quickly grew to become a competitor of Monika Pyrek zoom, so you can say that a similar athletic competition between Rogowska and Pyrek in Poland takes place as in Russia between Svetlana Feofanowa and Yelena Isinbayeva.

At the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint- Denis Pyrek could still claim a fourth place from the seventh place of Rogowska in the intra- Polish competition. The performance level of Rogowska was in the 2004 season, however, more and more, and at the Olympic Games in Athens, she won the bronze medal before then Monika Pyrek in fourth.

At the European Indoor Championships in Madrid Rogowska won with 4.75 m silver behind Isinbayeva and before Pyrek. On July 22, 2005, she improved in London the Polish record to 4.80 m. It was at this meeting second behind Yelena Isinbayeva, who jumped the first woman to 5.00 m in this competition. With this record it was also at the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 as a contender for a medal. However, you failed already at the height of 4.50 m. World champion Isinbayeva was the new world record height of 5.01 m, and the silver medal went Monika Pyrek. At the World Indoor Championships in Moscow in 2006 Rogowska won silver. In the summer they could not participate in the European Championships in Gothenburg injury. At the European Indoor Championships in 2007, she won bronze.

Her biggest success Rogowska won at the World Championships in Berlin in 2009, where she won with 4.75 m in front of skipped Monika Pyrek and the US-American Chelsea Johnson the world title. The following year, she won the bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships in Doha. In 2011 she became European Indoor Champion in Paris and thereby improved the Polish record to 4.85 meters. In March 2013, it won the silver medal in the pole vault at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Rogowska 's sports student at the University of Gdansk. She has a competition weight of 52 kg at a height of 1.70 m.