German Chiaraviglio (ARG) quotes from IAAF Press Conference

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http://www.iaaf.org/WJC06/news/Kind=2/newsId=35693.html

German Chiaraviglio (ARG)
Pole Vault
2003 World Youth champion, 2004 World Junior silver medallist, Current World leader

You are a very experienced competitor. In fact you were silver medallist in these championships two years ago in Grosseto. Are you looking forward to these championships and are you confident that you can win gold this time?

Yes I have the experience of Sherbrooke 2003 and Grosseto 2005 where I won silver but Pole Vault is always a very difficult event. Anything can happen in a Pole Vault contest and usually finals are very hard fought. I will do my best to try and get a medal.

You are a pupil of the great Ukrainian coach Vitaliy Petrov and you train for some of the year in Formia, Italy. So my question is perhaps obvious, do you hope to be as great an athlete in your career as Sergey Bubka, Yelena Isinbayeva, Monika Pyrek, and Guiseppe Gibilisco to name just a few of Petrov’s star athletes?

I would like to make it clear that I also train with my father who is my main coach but since 2003 I have been also advised by Vitaly Petrov in Formia, Italy. It is a very good experience. I have learnt a lot by training with the likes of Gibilisco, Isinbayeva and Pyrek and it is always a pleasure to go to training.

I hope one day I will have the same career as them. I am improving step by step and I hope I will increase my personal best slowly but steadily.

I have been a good youth and a good junior athlete; I hope I will be a good senior athlete as well.

You vaulted a national record and Area Junior record by clearing 5.70m when winning the IberoAmerican championships in May but since then you have jumped at a much lower level. Are you in good shape? Have you been concentrating your season on these championships?

After the Ibero-American championships I have been training in Formia and also taken part in a few competitions but I wasn’t in the best conditions yet. Now I feel good and ready for the challenge. My first big competition at the Golden League meeting in Rome was a very valuable experience and I now have a lot of hopes. I just want to jump!