Viktoriya Yuryevna Klyugina (russian: Викто́рия Ю́рьевна Клю́гина; née Slivka; 28 September 1980) is a Russian
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.
Career
She finished fifth at the
1998 World Junior Championships, sixth at the
2000 European Indoor Championships, won the bronze medal at the
2009 European 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 and finished eighth at the
2009 World Athletics Final.
Her personal best jump is 1.98 metres, achieved in July 2008 in
Bühl. She has 2.00 metres on the indoor track, achieved in February 2009 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 ...
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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 o ...
).
[
She is married to ]Sergey Klyugin
Sergey Petrovich Klyugin (Russian: Сергей Петрович Клюгин; born 24 March 1974 in Kineshma) is a Russian high jumper. He won the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of ...
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References
1980 births
Living people
Russian female high jumpers
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