Þórey Edda Elísdóttir

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Þórey Edda Elísdóttir (born 30 June 1977) is an Icelandic pole vaulter. Her personal best is 4.60 metres, achieved in July 2004 in Madrid.

[edit] Achievements

Year	Tournament	Venue	Result	Extra
1999	World Indoor Championships	Maebashi, Japan	9th
	World Championships	Seville, Spain	13th
2001	World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	6th
2002	European Championships	Munich, Germany	11th
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	5th
	World Athletics Final	Monte Carlo, Monaco	7th
2005	World Athletics Final	Monte Carlo, Monaco	8th

She stood as a candidate for the Left-Green Movement in the Icelandic parliamentary election, 2003 but did not succeed in winning a seat.[1]

Þórey Edda is now preparing herself for the Olympic Games in Peking this summer. She lives in Leverkusen. She practises once to two times a day but she has to be very careful, she has been dealing with some injury, both in her shoulder and in her calf. But right now she is doing very well and she is looking forward to compeet this summer.

Last winter Þórey Edda finished engineering from the University of Iceland.

[edit] References

IAAF profile for Þórey Edda Elísdóttir