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Meike Kröger (born 21 July 1986) is a German
from German Athletics Federation . Retrieved 2010-03-01. In the same year, she improved her personal best from 1.82 metres, achieved in May 2005 in
Meike Kröger (born 21 July 1986) is a German track and field
Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...
athlete who specialises in the 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 ...
.
Early career
She had her first success in the sport with wins at the German Junior Championships in both 2007 and 2008. In 2008, she also won the bronze medal at the German Championships.Profilefrom German Athletics Federation . Retrieved 2010-03-01. In the same year, she improved her personal best from 1.82 metres, achieved in May 2005 in
Zeven
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, to 1.91 metres, achieved in July 2008 in Regensburg
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.. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
Her progress stalled in the years 2006 and also 2007 because she spent the period from September 2005 to August 2006 working in an orphanage
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in Bishkek
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, Kyrgyzstan
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. She did train with former high jumper Igor Paklin
Igor Vasilyevich Paklin (russian: Игорь Васильевич Паклин; born 15 June 1963 in Frunze, Kirghiz SSR) is a retired Kyrgyz athlete who represented USSR and later Kyrgyzstan
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, albeit under sub-par material conditions.
Breakthrough
She improved the following year, clearing 1.92 metres in two indoor meets (in January inCottbus
Cottbus (; Lower Sorbian: ''Chóśebuz'' ; Polish: Chociebuż) is a university city and the second-largest city in Brandenburg, Germany. Situated around southeast of Berlin, on the River Spree, Cottbus is also a major railway junction with exten ...
and February in Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...
) and then 1.93 metres outdoor, in July in Ulm
Ulm () is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Danube on the border with Bavaria. The city, which has an estimated population of more than 126,000 (2018), forms an urban district of its own (german: link=no, ...
. She also began competing at an international senior level and took part in two major competitions: the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships
The 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held in Turin, Italy, from Friday, 6 March to Sunday, 8 March 2009. The championships took place at the Oval Lingotto indoor arena
, where she recorded a jump of 1.85 metres in the qualifiers, and 2009 World Championships in Athletics
The 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics () were held in Berlin, Germany from 15–23 August 2009. The majority of events took place in the Olympiastadion, while the marathon and racewalking events started and finished at the Brandenburg ...
(which were held in her home city of Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
). At the World Championships, she jumped close to a personal best in the qualifiers (1.92 m) and reached the high jump final. She did not improve on this, however, and finished in eleventh place having only cleared 1.87 m.
She started the 2009–2010 indoor season with rapid improvements, scoring a new best of 1.96 m indoors at the Hochsprung mit Musik
The ''Hochsprung mit Musik'' () is an annual indoor high jump meeting which takes place in February in Arnstadt, Germany.
First held in 1977, the meeting began as a competition between mainly East German athletes. Following the Re-unification of ...
meeting in Arnstadt
Arnstadt () is a town in Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany, on the river Gera about south of Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia. Arnstadt is one of the oldest towns in Thuringia, and has a well-preserved historic centre with a partially preserved town ...
. Kröger showed even greater progression at the German Indoor Championships: she cleared 1.98 m on her third attempt, increasing the pressure on the reigning champion Ariane Friedrich
Ariane Friedrich (born Tempel; 10 January 1984 in Nordhausen) is a German high jumper. She won the silver medal at the 2009 World Championships and represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics. She is the German ...
, and went further by jumping 2.00 m on her first attempt – seven centimeters higher than she had ever jumped just two months earlier. This was her second silver medal at the German Indoor Championships, having achieved the same placement in 2009. She competed at the 2010 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final.
She is coached by Jan-Gerrit Keil and represents the club LG Nord Berlin
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.
Personal bests
*All information taken from IAAF profile.See also
* Female two metres clubReferences
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kroger, Meike 1986 births Living people German female high jumpers Athletes from Berlin