Pole Vaulting is a Family Affair for Spiegelburg

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Pole vaulting is a family affair for Spiegelburg
Monday 19 June 2006
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[list]On reflection there was no option but to take up pole vaulting for Silke Spiegelburg. One of today’s most promising athletes in German athletics is the youngest member of a family where the event is a preoccupation.

By the age of 18, Silke Spiegelburg had already been in an Olympic final in Athens 2004, while this season the goal of the World Junior record holder is to stabilise at a level of around 4.50m and further improve her personal best, and qualify for the European Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Spiegelburg, 20, has started the 2006 season in style. Her personal best from last year had been 4.48m. Meanwhile she has already bettered this mark three times. After a first competition in Saulheim (Germany) which ended without a no height, she cleared 4.50m in Ostrava, then went on to 4.51m in Kassel and jumped 4.55m in Karlskrona. “For me Ostrava was the real start of the season. I don’t count Saulheimâ€Â