Ostrava WYC - Parnov 4.35, Stefanidi 4.20

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From the WYC07 section of the IAAF website:
[quote="Laura Arcoleo"]Parnov delivers family’s first gold
Sunday 15 July 2007

Ostrava, Czech Republic - Australia’s Vicky Parnov was arguably the athlete with the most experience coming into the 5th IAAF World Youth Championships here in Ostrava and eventually she did deliver her country’s first gold medal of the week but her path towards her first global title was everything but an easy road.

At 16 years of age, Parnov had already competed in an amazing two World Championships, the Youth in Marrakech 2005 (fourth) and the Junior in Beijing 2006 (third), and last year’s Commonwealth Games (sixth) on home soil in Melbourne, before making her entrance in the Vitkovice Arena for the qualification round of the Girls Pole Vault.

Parnov, who was born in Moscow and moved to Australia with her parents and younger sister Liz had already had a taste of the Ostrava stadium when she competed in the Golden Spike meeting last 27 June where coming off the plane from a long journey from Australia she no heighted.

“The starting height was 4.20m and my PB back then was 4.30m!â€Â

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Video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfQSw1EouYI