Stacy Dragila
Stacy Dragila ( born March 25, 1971 in Auburn, California ) is a former American track and field athlete. The pole vaulter was Olympic champion and twice world champion.
Life
Dragila began as a heptathlete, until she moved to the pole vault then young woman discipline. Their first major success was winning the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Paris in 1997. With 4.40 meters she put it on a new indoor world record. 1999 she succeeded in winning the title in the open air at the World Championships in Seville (before Anschela Balachonowa and Tatiana Grigorieva ). Your biggest achievement is the victory in the pole vault at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney before the Australian Tatiana Grigorieva and the Icelandic Vala Flosadóttir. The following year, Dragila was again in Edmonton World Champion (before Svetlana Feofanowa and Monika Pyrek ). After the season, she was named world athlete of the year.
At the 2003 World Championships in Paris Dragila came in fourth place and at the World Indoor Championships in Budapest in 2004, she won with a new continental record silver behind Yelena Isinbayeva. In the summer she worked with 4.83 meters on her personal best at the Olympic Games in the same year but do not make it past the qualification. The same misfortune happened to her at the World Championships the following year. After two years with injuries, she returned back in 2008 with 4.70 meters, but failed to qualify for the Olympics. Your last international appearance was in 2009 at the World Championships in Berlin, but where they did not reach the finals and subsequently withdrew from competitive sports.
Between 1999 and 2003 she set five world records and for the year improved by 21 centimeters:
- August 21, 1999: 4.60 m
- July 23, 2000: 4.63 m
- April 28, 2001: 4.70 m
- July 9, 2002: 4.71 m
- June 9, 2003: 4.81 m
Dragila married the American discus thrower Ian Waltz.