Marko Turban (born 14 May 1967) is a retired

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

er. He was born in

Rakvere Rakvere is a town in northern Estonia and the administrative centre of the Lääne-Viru ''maakond'' (county), 20 km south of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea. Rakvere is the 8th most populous urban area in Estonia. Rakvere has a tota ...

. He competed at the

1996 Olympic Games The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

and the 1997 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final. His personal best is 2.30 metres, achieved in June 1996 in

. This is the Estonian record.

Personal life

Turban is living with heptathlete and hurdler

Anu Kaljurand Anu Kaljurand (born 16 April 1969) is a retired Estonian heptathlete. Career She finished seventeenth in the heptathlon at the 1992 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal at the 1992 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Her sc ...

, they have two children.

References

1967 births Living people Sportspeople from Rakvere Estonian male high jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Estonia 20th-century Estonian people {{Estonia-athletics-bio-stub