Blanka Vlašić

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Blanka Vlašić (born November 8, 1983 in Split) is a Croatian high jumper. A double world junior champion, she won the high jump bronze medal at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Her personal best jump at 2.05 m is also a national record and was set in 2006.

She competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics without much success.

She finished 4th in the high jump final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg.

Blanka Vlašić is coached by her father Joško, a former decathlete.

She was featured as the celebrity counterpart in a 'celebrity trades places with ordinary joe'-type show named "Mjenjacninca" (The Exchange), where the 'ordinary joe' was a black man, earning controversy through her cold and distant demeanor toward the man for the duration of the show.

1 Achievements
2 Trivia
3 References and links
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Achievements

Year	Tournament	Venue	Result
2000	World Junior Championships	Kingston, Jamaica	1st
2001	World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	6th
2001	Mediterranean Games	Tunis, Tunisia	1st
2002	World Junior Championships	Santiago, Chile	1st
2002	European Championships	Munich, Germany	5th
2003	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, England	4th
	World Championships	Paris, France	7th
	World Athletics Final	Monte Carlo, Monaco	4th
2004	World Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	3rd
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	11th
2006	World Indoor Championships	Moscow, Russia	2nd
	European Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	4th
	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	6th

[edit] Trivia

Blanka was named after Casablanca, a city where her father competed at the Mediterranean Games around the time of her birth. ^[1]
Joško Vlašić's decathlon personal best, set in 1984, still stands as the Croatian national record; the two are a rare example of father and daughter simultaneously holding athletics national records.
She is six feet and four inches (193 cm or 1.93 m) tall, taller than most male high jumpers.
She was featured as the celebrity counterpart in a 'celebrity trades places with ordinary joe'-type show named "Mjenjacninca" (The Exchange), where the 'ordinary joe' was a black man, earning controversy through her cold and distant demeanor toward the man for the duration of the show.